In this guide, I’ll walk you through the process of redirecting every site hosted on your server to HTTPS. Please note each site will need to have the HTTPS bindings properly configured else the sites won’t load at all.
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While iOS devices automatically sync volume output with a connected Bluetooth device, most Android phones don’t – the Samsung Galaxy S8 is one of these phones. This results in your phone and headphones/speaker having separate volume controls which can get quite annoying when your phone is in your pocket but you want to be able
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hMailServer naively supports using ClamAV (provided you have it installed), but ClamAV arguably isn’t the most effective antivirus available. Since Windows Server 2016 comes with Windows Defender built in, you can use Windows Defender as a third-party virus scanner instead of purchasing something else. It’s all very easy to configure too.
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While Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Play music support it, at the time of writing, Microsoft Groove doesn’t officially support storing your music on a microSD card. With a little digging around though, it’s possible (and quite easy too).
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It appears that Apple have removed the ability to enable Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere from within System Preferences. Fortunately, it’s easy enough to enable with 1 line in a terminal window. This line will enable and set the Allow apps downloaded from: preference to Anywhere. sudo spctl –master-disable Once you’ve run the command, close down System Preferences and
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From time to time you may want to prevent your Mac from sleeping without having to go into Settings and turn off Energy Saving mode. Thankfully, there’s another way to keep your Mac awake. All you need to do is run a single command in Terminal called caffeinate.
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NOTICE: This article has been updated for macOS Sierra and macOS High Sierra – I’ve included OS X El Capitan, macOS Sierra, and macOS High Sierra instructions for any stages with different requirements or commands. At the time of writing, Apple still don’t offer a simple utility one can use to create a bootable USB
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If you’re looking for a quick and dirty way to back up your MySQL databases and your IIS website files, look no further. Below are two batch scripts for backing up your MySQL databases via a MySQL dump and a quick script to copy and compress your IIS website files into a .zip file. I
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If you’ve exported an SSL certificate from a Windows PC via the Certificate Manager MMC plugin into a .pfx file, you may end up needing to spilt that file into its constituent parts (e.g; for moving the certificate to a Linux based server or if you’re importing it into Plesk). Thankfully doing this is very
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After you’ve signed a zone you would expect Windows to give you the DS records/trust anchors straight away, right? Sadly not. It is, however, very easy to get Windows to give you the DS records so you can complete your DNSSEC implementation. To do this you need; a PowerShell or PowerShell ISE window (I prefer
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