I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easily find it again if the need arises. As often happens...
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Windows 10 – Remove Active Directory Users
We've been using cloud-based Active Directory through Office 365 for our Windows-based clients. It simplifies adding user accounts to Windows workstations because it's authenticating with their Office 365 credentials. When an account fails or needs to be removed from a...
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Force Exchange Online Archiving to start archiving email on Office 365
When you enable Exchange Online Archiving for a user on Office 365, it can take 24 hours or more for the Managed Folder Assistant to start it's first run and begin archiving email out of the primary mailbox. Edit: If...
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How did manufacturers manage to make space storage (SSD, HDD) so dense? – Quora
By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs was using perpendicular recording - this aligned the magnetic domains vertically (perpendicular to the platter) rather than having...
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Really good advice on passwords from Microsoft
Microsoft have published a white paper - Microsoft Password Guidance that contains some very good advice on what passwords need to be to be secure against modern password attacks and also shooting down some very long-held beliefs about the benefits of...
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Can’t image a new Windows 10 machine with Clonezilla, NTFS partition shows as RAW
I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla, the main Windows partition, formatted as plain ol' NTFS, was identified by...
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Can’t invite people to events in macOS Calendar app via Kerio Connect
I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a calendar event in their Kerio calendar, there was no option to invite people to the...
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Get PowerShell remoting working on macOS without installing Homebrew
The PowerShell Team at Microsoft have put in a lot of work to port PowerShell to other (non-Windows) systems. As part of their porting efforts, they've also ported OpenSSH over to Windows, but that's not what this post is about....
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Stop Apache web services on macOS with Server.app
In recent versions of macOS with the Server.app, the Server software has been more and more persistent about having Apache running. Even if you're not using any of the web services, it still likes to have Apache running as a...
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Is there a way I can tell what year a MacBook was manufactured without asking someone at Apple? – Quora
The only way to be sure is to look up the serial number against a 3rd party service. You can check in the Apple Menu > About this Mac, however the model name can be misleading as some Macs haven’t...
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