Our thinking
Technical notes and observations from years of supporting creative businesses on Mac.
For quite some time, it has not been possible to connect to Office 365 / Exchange Online with PowerShell, if your tenancy is using Modern Authentication (i.e...
Read post →I used to feature numerous product reviews on this blog, however that has really tapered off over the past few years. I'd like to get back onto letting peopl...
Read post →I don't like Fusion Drives. They are unreliable. There, now that I've got that out of the way, here's how to fix a Fusion Drive if it flips out. Do note that...
Read post →I occasionally need to set up a printer manually (e.g. when pushing out a printer with Munki), however as the printer is AirPrint compatible, the manufacture...
Read post →It's often handy to have all users in a Office 365 tenancy to be able to view all details in everyone else's calendars. While each user can set these permiss...
Read post →I have a client and we have recently deployed a 3CX solution for them. One of the more tricky parts of their solution was integrating with an existing analog...
Read post →I have recently deployed a 3CX system to a customer's home, replacing an old NEC phone system that was installed some time in the 1990s. As much as I loved t...
Read post →I've recently switched over to an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and overall it's a really good machine. I do miss not having Thunderbolt ports on both sides of t...
Read post →There are a couple of catches to install PowerShell on macOS and have it work for remote sessions to Microsoft 365 / Azure AD / Exchange Online. First, insta...
Read post →I'm putting this here as I will probably need to refer to it again in the future. We've taken over the development for a web app that uses php 5.6 and I'm tr...
Read post →Microsoft now have a fairly straightforward way to import large Outlook PST files into Office 365. Using this process to upload large amounts of email should...
Read post →I had a really thorny problem recently where packets of a certain size were disappearing in action when being sent from Site A to Site B. After much troubles...
Read post →I've stolen this from TechRepublic , and am reproducing it here so I can find this info again when I need to. The original article is: How to properly automo...
Read post →PowerShell can be a very powerful tool when applied correctly, however it has some quirks - one of which is formatting size numbers for remote PowerShell con...
Read post →When you connect a USB disk to a Synology NAS, the NAS assigns it a disk number, which forms part of the name of the mount point for the disk. The first disk...
Read post →Apple held their virtual WWDC2020 overnight and there were a raft of announcements . Two of the biggest however that will affect all Mac users were the annou...
Read post →Windows 10 (and Windows Server) has a feature where it keeps older versions of shared libraries and other things like that in a Windows Side-by-Side folder (...
Read post →I had a really thorny problem recently with a client who responded to a phishing email and their account was compromised. As part of reviewing their account...
Read post →In the past, I've had a number of the original Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite units fail - they were all the original plastic-case units, and in each case it was t...
Read post →I had a very unusual problem recently with a client - his MacBook Pro running Catalina was constantly running out of disk space. He let it slide for a while,...
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