Now that PowerShell works pretty well on macOS, including remote sessions to Office 365, I'm able to use it a lot more for administering client tenancies in the cloud. One common task is to set the default sharing on a...
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I had a client with an unusual issue on a Mac mini that used to be a file server, but now is just sharing out some archived content and their Munki repository. There were just two users on this machine,...
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I've had an issue with my site that prevented it from working fully over https - and as it turns out, it's due to CloudFlare's reverse proxy and the way it deals with http and https requests. I found the...
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This is pretty serious - a researcher has discovered a zero-day exploit against the Keychain in macOS. As a protest against Apple not paying a bug bounty for macOS (only for iOS), Linus Henze, the researcher, has withheld details of...
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I've encountered a few cases where a client has forgotten the password for the iTunes backup they've made for their iPhone, and the password was either set up on another Mac, or not stored in the Keychain. With encrypted iTunes...
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Microsoft have widespread outage on the Office 365 login/authentication servers this morning and it's affecting multiple tenancies. The official report from the Microsoft 365 Service health status page says: "Current status: We've identified a network issue that is affecting authentication to...
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From 1st Jan 2019, Microsoft are increasing the pricing of Office 365 subscriptions by up to 8% in order to bring them in-line with pricing in other regions. The last price adjustment for Office 365 was more than 3 years...
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