Post Archives

2021

• Lessons Learned (Advice)
• The Dummy’s Guide to DMARC (Pt. 1 of 2) (Uncategorized)

2020

• Pulling the ripcord on Google Keep (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: Fit (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: Keep (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: Voice (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: Maps (Uncategorized)

2019

• Migrating to G Suite: Calendars (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: Contacts (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite: E-Mail (Uncategorized)
• Migrating to G Suite Business (Uncategorized)

2018

• grep search for lines that do NOT contain certain words (How To)

2017

• My scripts for JAMF Pro are now on GitHub (Uncategorized)
• Hiding a user’s posts in Slack (How To)

2016

• Determine which installed apps are from the Mac App Store (How To)
• Heads-on with Microsoft’s Hololens (Review)
• Using conditions to string together multiple *nix commands (How To)
• A quick update (Announcement)
• Free, trusted SSL certificates (How To)
• MS Exchange Server: configuring maiboxes to accept calendar responses from external invitees (How To)
• Free VMs for Internet Explorer/Edge testing (How To)
• My new podcast is now LIVE! (Announcement)
• Send SMS messages from the command line (How To)
• Mac OS X: Speed up Terminal.app startup (How To)
• Migrating DHCP configuration to a MS Windows Server domain controller (How To)

2015

• A look at the experimental side of Spotify (Opinion, Review)
• Mac OS X: resolving keychain issues (How To)
• All about two-factor authentication (How To)
• Shell script to force share unmount (How To)
• Tips for choosing an office printer vendor (Advice)
• Mass distribute printer configurations to Mac users (How To)
• My mounting disappointment with the new iPhone 6s (Opinion, Review)
• MS Outlook doesn’t feel like printing (How To)
• Google Glass to go augmented reality? (Opinion)
• Microsoft does Linux (sort of) (Opinion)
• Speeding up Mac OS X 10.x (How To)
• Tonight’s augmented & virtual reality tech demo (Opinion)
• Single line command to copy file from one file server to another (How To)
• Shell script to monitor /boot disk usage (How To)
• Forcing clients to use 5GHz on a Ruckus Wireless network (How To)
• My first 24 hours with the Moto 360 and Android Wear for iOS (Opinion)
• Reddit: take the plunge! (How To)
• Wearable tech (Opinion, Review)
• The state of the I.T. budget union (Opinion)
• Google has a sense of humor (Opinion)
• The quagmire of messaging (Opinion)
• Sound advice on delegating tasks to others (Advice)
• True visual voicemail (Opinion)
• Very simple rule to live by as an I.T. admin (Advice)
• Apple still fails at cloud computing (Opinion)
• Periscope (Review)
• I’m starting to think it’s time to say ‘goodbye’ to Skype (Opinion)
• Tips for speeding up your internet experience (How To)
• Skype: checking logged in devices (How To)
• Making your project rollout a success (Advice)
• Joining Macs systems to Active Directory (How To)
• I can’t believe it: I’m actually excited about Microsoft (Opinion)
• Alexa is the new woman in my life (Review)

2014

• Clearing space on Linux /boot partition (How To)
• Upgrading from Ubuntu Svr 11.04 (How To)
• Restoring Apple Hardware Test (How To)
• Google Docs: referencing cells in other spreadsheets (How To)
• NetExtender and Mac OS X 10.9 (How To)
• Password management for dummies (How To)

2013

• Determining a directory’s size in Linux & Mac OS X (How To)
• Test UDP port (How To)
• Adding GUI to Ubuntu Server (How To)
• Configuring network interface in Ubuntu Server (How To)
• .BAT file to delete files older than x days and empty folders (How To)
• Installing VMWare Tools in Ubuntu Server (How To)
• Installing an SSL certificate in Windows Server 2008 (IIS 7.0) (How To)
• Configuring DNS servers on NIC card of Active Directory system (How To)
• Test hop latency of a data request (How To)
• Search for and delete a specific directory (How To)

2012

• Quick Tip: add weather forecast to iCal (How To)
• Useful Tool of the Week: VCF-to-CSV Converter (How To)
• Disable Mac OS X window zoom effect (How To)
• LDAP query to an Active Directory server (How To)
• Run Internet Explorer on Mac OS X (How To)
• Re-run initial Ubuntu setup routine (How To)
• Read HFS+ volume on Linux (How To)
• Truncate x characters from a string (How To)
• Split a string into an array based on a character (How To)
• Testing an external mail server (How To)
• Delete empty directories in *nix (How To)
• Search for and delete directory in MS Windows (How To)
• Cloud-based file storage services: a quick overview (Review)
• Psych 101 re. customer satisfaction (Advice)
• Spiceworks optimization & best practices (How To)
• MS Exchange Server routing (How To)

2011

• The iPad just became a viable I.T. support tool (Opinion)
• Put your laptop on eBay now (or “How I learned to love the iPad”) (Opinion)
• Skype v5 for Mac: Web 2.0 design gone bad (Opinion)