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Mac OS X

Change Internet Sharing subnet on Mac OS X

During one of our Support Essentials Courses a delegate asked me if it was possible to change the subnet supplied by Mac OS X default internet sharing service. After some searching on both the system files and Google, I found

Check Active Directory Connection: Casper Suite

We’ve had quite a few cases where we want to monitor the connection a Mac has with Active Directory. The main purpose is to spot issues early and ideally apply a fix before the user is impacted. We’ve used a

Mac OS X

Cloud Based Authentication: Auth0

Our mobile/web team are always looking out for great user authentication services. A recent one we have been testing is Auth0. This company has been going for a couple of years now and have built up a really great reputation is

Mac OS X

Unit Conversions on Mac: Spotlight

I haven’t really noticed before but Spotlight has been able to do Calculations for a while now. Since Yosemite it can now also do Unit conversions. It’s a nice feature because you don’t need to specify which conversion that you want,

Mac OS X

Revise IT – OS X 10.11 Update News

The latest version of  Revise IT.  has just hit the App Store. This latest version adds test questions to help you study for the following EL Capitan certifications: OS X Support 10.11 (pass mark 74%) Mac Integration Basics 10.11 (pass mark 85%) Simply

Sync Home Folders with the Cloud

I use multiple machines and a few months ago I found myself trying to find a solution to the old problem of finding that the document you need is never on the machine that you are using. The reason I didn’t

Sync Home Folders with the Cloud

I use multiple machines and a few months ago I found myself trying to find a solution to the old problem of finding that the document you need is never on the machine that you are using. The reason I didn’t

Mac OS X

How to Validate the Integrity of a File

When manually downloading files over the internet, its always a good idea to check the integrity of these files. Making sure no-one has modified them maliciously or just to check they have not become corrupted during the download process. If

Disable Photos from auto launching

So with El Capitan , every time you attach an iOS device or a memory card, the Photos app auto launches. This can be annoying when managing many iOS devices. You can stop this on a device by device basis