As part of my using the MAPS benefit I have moved my web server to Azure in Melbourne So ping times / request times have reduced for my Melbourne clients As an example of what having to travel ~900kms less does to round trip ping times note the following My house to...
James McDonald
Microsoft Action Pack Subscription
So last year I purchased a MAPS benefit and found that with only 2 users for my small MSP business it was a good deal at $440 per year If you purchase Microsoft 365 Business Standard on a monthly committment you pay $45.32 per month for 2 users but the MAPS benefit...
Half Manual Automated WordPress Site Upgrade Script
This script finds all your wordpress sites under a specific parent directory and then loops through them and prompts you to accept or reject an upgrade for plugins, themes and wordpress core. # find all Wordpress installs WP_SITES=`find /path/to/your/sites/root -regex...
How to Auto-enroll in Intune MDM after Domain Join
I had a number of devices that the user didn't have Intune licensing when the Azure AD Domain join was performed. So the device appears in Azure AD as a device but the MDM column says none: The device enrollment happens if the licensing and configuration are correct...
Seeing if a Unifi UAP is sending ARP Requests
I'm not able to ping a wireless up-linked Unifi UAP-AC-HD device. It is marked as ISOLATED in the Unifi Controller. Strangely the Unifi Controller is reporting it was last seen 2 minutes ago but I think this is a furphy. If anyone knows if there is a back channel that...
Adding BCC to Divi Contact Form
The Divi contact form allows you to send to multiple email addresses by opening the properties of the form and entering multiple comma separated email addresses but they end up all in the To: field Adding BCC to Emails using a functions.php Snippet You need to edit...
Free API Services only Allow X Calls Per Month – node-fetch-cache to the Rescue
Just been trying to create a Node App that will query the Binance Dex web page for my wallets address and then take the estimated USD value and convert it to AUD So you need an API to get a conversion factor https://openexchangerates.org/ I am using the above But when...
[Win32App] app workload is not switched from SCCM, skip app check in.
Problem: Intune Win32App's and Microsoft Edge browser will not install. AAD domain joined Computer successfully auto-enrolled for Intune management wouldn't install the assigned Win32Apps & Microsoft Edge Browser (it did install Office and the MSI based apps)...
Using OneDrive to sync development directories
Download an Azure Function App for Development in VS Code
If you start with creating an Azure Function App in Azure and then want to switch to local development here are the steps to download and import the function app into VSCode This does not cover installing the Azure Function Core extensions but that is covered here...
Convert Lets Encrypt Cert to pfx for import into HP Printer
Create a cert using the dns challenge # use dns challenge to create cert sudo certbot certonly -d test.toggen.com.au --manual --preferred-challenges dns # chane to the location of the created certs cd /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.toggen.com.au # convert to pfx openssl...
2nd Monitor not Working after Kernel Upgrade
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with a 460.80 Nvidia Driver Just did an upgrade from 5.8.0-59-generic to 5.8.0-63-generic kernel last night and this morning my monitor connected to the VGA port on the card failed to work sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible...
Unifi LAN LOCAL IN OUT
This is a graphic I use to figure out which section to add the firewall rules to in the Unifi UDM/USG controller. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003173168-UniFi-UDM-USG-Introduction-to-Firewall-Rules
Which Insider Preview channel do I need to get Windows 11?
Not working I first chose "Beta Channel (Recommended)" and did a Check for updates and no Windows 11 option appeared Working Then I chose "Dev Channel" and checked for updates and Windows 11 appears!!! Settings in a VMWare Guest so you can install Windows 11 Insider...
VMWare Workstation Pro on Ubuntu 20.04 – Running an encrypted VM at login
Create a dot desktop file ( ~/.config/autostart/start-windows-10.desktop) [Desktop Entry] Name=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login GenericName=windows-10-start Comment=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login Exec=vmrun -T ws -vp "Your-VM-Password" start...
Intune Powershell Scripts – Encoding Gotcha
Just had a powershell script that was failing When I went in to the registry key that stores the results of the script running I saw some corrupted characters The problem turned out to be I had a file that was encoded in UTF-16LE So I saved the powershell script as...
Send-MailMessage not able to send an email through Office 365 using App Password
Send-MailMessage & App Password Doesn't Work So today I tried to test SMTP Auth using Powershell $appPassword = 'my_app_password_here' $From = "[email protected]" $To = "[email protected]" [securestring]$secStringPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $appPassword...
Greenshot – Makes documentation easier
I take lots of screenshot per day. Greenshot is a handy utility that makes that very easy. I find it useful for: capturing the settings in configuration dialogs, creating step by step how to's and documenting before and after changes....