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How to track marketing emails in Connectwise
Communication with your clients is vital, we all know that, and email communication is still the best way of getting information out to your clients as quickly as possible. You might know that...
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How to perform an upgrade for Capita SIMS using Solus 3
Capita SIMS is a very popular MIS platform found widely within the educational sector. It covers a range of products geared towards the various areas of the educational process that schools would want...
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How to uninstall Trend Worry Free (with Labtech scripts)
I’ve been looking for a way to easily migrate a Trend Worry Free cloud customer from one reseller to another. Quite often over at Oakson we’ll grab a client from a less-able IT company who also uses...
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How to control remote viewing access in Labtech
Labtech, as we know is super powerful. Power, however, like any good super hero will tell you, is useless if you don’t know how to control it. In this post I’ll look at creating a way to prevent...
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How to manually configure networking on an AeroHive virtual appliance
AeroHive have some amazing products. Their access points are perhaps some of the best and are easily my favourite to get up and working in a pinch. If you have a need for enterprise level WiFi then...
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How to add Office 365 SRV records using WHM
I’ve just spent the day migrating an aging email server to Office 365 for customer who was worried that all their chickens were in one basket, which of course they were. But I got stumped with the SRV...
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How to disable a Wi-Fi card from the command line
This morning we had a need to disable a Wi-Fi card quickly. A users laptop was defaulting to using the Wi-Fi adapter rather than their cabled connection and it was causing problems. The Wi-Fi card was...
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How to install OpenVAS 9 on Ubuntu 16 LTS
OpenVAS 9 is the latest version of the most well-known open source vulnerability scanner. OpenVAS allows easy scanning of networks with support for a number of vulnerability feeds, both commercial and...
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What’s running on port 8000 ?
Recently I had to do a vulnerability scan for a client using OpenVAS. If you haven’t already used OpenVAS then you should, it’s the defacto opensource vulnerability scanner and v9 is a breeze to use....
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Dell XPS 9560 stuck at Dell logo after bios update 1.2.4
Those of you (un)lucky enough to own a shiny Dell XPS 9560 15″ MacBook replacement need to watch out for the current bios update labelled 1.2.4. It’s proving to be quite an issue for Dell owners,...
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How to fix cannot connect to proxy error in Storagecraft CMD endpoint
Recently I was struggling with an issue with a clients Windows 2012 Server which refused to check in to Storagecraft’s CMD management portal. Below is the fix that worked for me. Storagecraft CMD is...
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Failed to deploy VM: postNFCdata failed when deploying AlienVault to VMware...
I recently had to install and configure the amazing AlienVault security appliance at a client site who had recently upgraded their VMware platform to 6.5. Immediately we hit an issue with the...
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How to find the SSL certificate used by LDAPS
Sometimes you are dumped in to situations at short notice and need to get an answer in fairly short notice. It was in this type of situation that I found myself when I popped in to a friends office and...
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Backslash doesn’t work in VMware ESXi when installing Windows
Just today I had to remotely configure a new VM on a virtual host running VMware ESXi 6.0. No problem, I thought, have that running in a jiffy. However when I fired up the Windows installation process...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 stuck in reboot cycle due to failed updates
Gargh! Why is nothing perfect?! Right, now that that’s done, I’ve just had an issue with a Windows Server 2012 R2 server which was stuck in constant reboot cycling. An update was installing and then...
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How to create a Track in Connectwise
We’ve looked at how awesome Tracks in ConnectWise can be. For those of you that don’t know, ConnectWise is one of the leading PSA tools and one of the few pieces of software that I’d actually seek out...
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How to change the default sharing permissions in OneDrive
The sharing permissions in OneDrive default to allowing anyone to access a document with a link. Whilst very useful, it’s obvious that this level of access might not be ideal for companies and could...
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Why does Office 365 show Guest Contributor as having modified a file?
Ever seen “Guest Contributor” as having just modified a file in OneDrive, and not sure why? You’ve shared the file with some users at your school or workplace and yet their names don’t show up and...
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How to print PDF files and automatically include a filename
I was asked how to print PDF files and automatically include a filename on the print out. This was for a team of users whose technical diagrams were meant to include the filename of the file but,...
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How to create quick notes in OneNote for Windows 10 with a keyboard shortcut
Up until recently you used to be able to easily create Quick Notes in OneNote for Windows 10. For those of us who use OneNote frequently, this was a godsend. Alas Microsoft have slowly been removing...
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