I've set up another client on Office 365 recently and they have a couple of resource calendars - one for the Boardroom and one for the Meeting Room. What they wanted to do that was a bit different was to...
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Apple’s new MacBook Pro – cheaper in Australia than the USA?
We've hit an unusual point with pricing on Apple's latest equipment that was announced at WWDC on 5th June (6th June Australian time). Looking at the price on the top-spec MacBook Pro 15" as an example, it is significantly cheaper...
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Disk-Arbitrator – Mount disks read-only on macOS
Disk Arbitrator is a Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device. Disk Arbitrator is essentially a user interface to the Disk Arbitration framework, which enables...
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Possible fix for no video in Skype for Mac
I don't use Skype very often, but when I went to use it recently, it couldn't see my FaceTime HD camera. I'd go into Skype > Preferences and in Audio/Video and although the preferences said it was using the FaceTime...
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Quick fix for Apple Remote Desktop 3.9 and asking for Keychain Password
After upgrading the Apple Remote Desktop client on a number of machines, and using the new 3.9 version of the Remote Desktop app, some machines have started repeatedly displaying a dialog box (on the client machine, not on the controlling...
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Error with the User Profile Service failing the logon on Windows 7
I recently had an issue where a domain-joined machine with Windows 7 was unable to have new users log in. Anyone who had an existing account on the machine could still log in, but new users couldn't and were getting...
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Cumulus Field Formulas
This is pretty obscure stuff - I'm putting it here so I can refer to it later down the track when I've completely forgotten what I did. In Canto Cumulus, you can set the value of a field using a...
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Configure L2TP VPN Server on Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite
As Apple have removed PPTP VPN support from macOS Sierra (10.12 and iOS 10) I'm changing clients over to L2TP over IPSec VPNs instead. Once the VPN server is configured, there's not much difference to configuring it at the client end...
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Get system specs on an HP Server
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows doesn't really have anything quite like the System Information app on macOS. If you've got an HP server however, you can get some fairly detailed information about the configuration of the server as...
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Find (and delete) duplicate files
I've had issues in the past where a Kerio Connect mail server talking to Apple Mail can somehow end up duplicating hundreds or even thousands of emails in mailboxes. I never got to the bottom of what was causing it,...
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