I’ve had a number of times over the years where I’ve needed to guarantee to someone that their data is unchanged as a result of an IT action
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I’ve recently been involved in setting up a number of SaaS applications for my organisation which use our on-premises Active Directory to authenticate users.
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Our corporate email recently upgraded to Office365 and one of the many benefits which has come with this is the ability to preview an Out of Office message from a colleague before sending them a mail from Outlook.
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If, like me, you use your email archive as a record of what’s happened and if, like mine, this means your email box is approaching capacity, here’s a trick that might free up some space.
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When using VMware PowerCLI to communicate with an uncertified vSphere server a number of warning messages appear upon connection.
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When using Outlook 2013, the Calendar conveniently displays the current weather and temperature at the top of the pane. The location can be switched using the drop down on the weather itself (for some reason my English-UK Office setup decided that I was most likely a New Yorker following installation) but changing from …

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As any Hoopy Frood will know May 25th is Towel Day and to celebrate you could sit down with the book, or watch the TV show or the movie, or you could just read a towel. But instead why not dust off the 1980’s text adventure of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

To save you finding an old 486 and dusting off those …

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Whilst trying to update firmware on a Dell EqualLogic PS6500 I received the error FTP: Permission denied: recv failed. It turns out that this was down to a Java problem on my Windows 7 workstation, rather than the EqualLogic.
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