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I’m an experienced Technical Architect working out of the South-East of the UK. I’ve worked all over the world including Europe, the USA, and several sites across Australasia. I’ve hit buttons on systems with over 400,000 users on them. That made me a bit nervous. I have in excess of 25 years experience in the technology infrastructure delivery sector. I started out deploying and supporting Novell Netware, but then moved into networking and Microsoft products once that become prudent. I was fortunate enough to be given very flattering, awesome opportunities by amazing people over the years, and I hope I repaid them in hard work and some gratitude. In the last several years I’ve been working in the Unified Communications
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Brits & 13 Amp Fuse Obsession
I’ve been clearing stuff out at home, and a big chunk of that clear out has been cables. I was throwing out a ton of US extension cables (I worked in the US for a while), and two things struck me: 1: None had fuses in. I even hacked one of them apart to check.2.…
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Updating and Backing up your Windows Apps
A while ago, I wrote about a way of easily backing up your Windows drivers. Believe it or not, there’s a fairly simple way to do it for (most) of your apps too, making setting up new machines fairly simple. You can also update all the apps using a similar method. So let’s have a…
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JetKVM – IP Keyboard/Video/Mouse
Getting remote access to some machines – headless servers for example – can sometimes be a challenge. Sure, there’s RDP or VNC, however that requires the machine to be up, on, and usable doesn’t it? What about those times you need to deal with machine that isn’t accessible for whatever reason? Or if you need…
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SynologyDrive Would Like to Access Data from Other Apps
This is an irritating error message I seem to be getting from the Synology Drive App Recently: In a fit of boredom I thought I’d set out to search why this was so – I tried adding the Synology Drive app to full disk access however it didn’t help. Then I noticed the clue is…
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M4 Max – the only Apple Silicon Worth Buying
Yeah, that’s a silly, clickbaity headline. I’d never write something like that. WAIT. Had a chat with a mate today — he’s a techy — about which chip to go for in his next MacBook. We went back and forth, compared specs, workloads, all that jazz. End result? He ordered a fully-loaded M4 Max MacBook…
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Cannot pair a yubikey for MacOS Login
I’ve done a bit of a derp, and it’s taken me way too long to work out such a simple derp. I use physical keys for logon to my MacOS devices, as well as passwords. I’ve been setting up a new MacBook Air today, and could I get my YubiKey to work? I’ve factory reset…
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PST Import Service – Viewing Uploaded PST
This is quick addenda to my previous post on the PST Import Service. Sometimes you can run in to an issue where the import service says it cannot find the PST files – something like ‘The PST could not be found in the storage account’. You can view the storage blob created during an import…
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The PST Import Service
A while ago I did a video on the PST Import Service on Microsoft 365 / Office 365. You can see it here: Office365 Exchange Online PST Import Service Enough has changed so that a revisit is needed. What the PST Import Service does is allow you to bulk-copy PST files to Azure and have…
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Sometimes good-enough…isn’t.
The First Refusal: When “Good Enough” Isn’t Enough Lately, I’ve been taking on more work after a period of downtime. And a few days ago, I experienced something new – my first refusal. Someone approached me with an opportunity, and I simply turned it down with a polite “thanks, but no thanks.” It wasn’t a…
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Cleaning Drives
If like me you swap between operating systems for external drives you can sometimes find yourself in the situation where – for whatever reason – you can’t partition a drive how you want. Usually it’s if I’ve been swapping between Linux/Windows etc. and have been doing unusual things. Anyway, it’s real easy to clear down…