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Transfer outlook accounts using scripting

Hi All. This blog is another in an ongoing recent theme I’ve been using; Customer Requests! This time, I had a customer running an Office 365 hosted email solution who was looking to change their default email domain. The user’s would

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Transfer outlook accounts using scripting

Hi All. This blog is another in an ongoing recent theme I’ve been using; Customer Requests! This time, I had a customer running an Office 365 hosted email solution who was looking to change their default email domain. The user’s would

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Creating your first boot script

Anyone who is using the modular deployment technique will have hit the first stumbling block very early on. If you’re deploying an unbooted, unconfigured OS, how do you get it past the Apple setup assistant? After getting past this hurdle,

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Setting the Network Time Server from the Command Line

Hi All, here’s a short and sweet blog post to kick off the new year! I often get asked about setting up NTP configurations on client devices in a better way than manually. You can do this from the command

Apple has released patches for the Bash vulnerability

Since the announcement of the vulnerability in Bash, Apple has released patches for Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion. It is recommended that you download and install these patches, asap! Mavericks Mountain Lion Lion  

The Shellshock Bug & Workaround

NB: Apple has released the following patches: Mavericks Mountain Lion Lion This was tested on 10.9.5. A new vulnerability has been discovered in the bash shell which is affectionately being called “shellshock”. It’s worth pointing out that this is quite

Bash Scripting: Network Locations

Hi all. Welcome back to my (hopefully) popular Bash scripting series! In this batch I plan to go through some items which I learnt for a recent education project: modifying network locations via the command line, modifying proxy settings via