Mac How To – Allow Apps Downloaded from Anywhere in Sierra

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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Mac How To: Make a USB macOS (or OS X) Installer (10.11.x-10.13.x)

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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SSL How To | Exporting the Private Key and Certificate from a .pfx file

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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Let’s Encrypt are right: HTTPS does not mean a site can be trusted

Preface: Let’s Encrypt is a project that aims to make SSL certificates free and easily available for anyone and everyone. Their aim is to create a more secure internet. Read all about them on their site here. Also for this article to make sense you’ll need to understand two of the types of certificates available. Domain Validation

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Windows Server How To | Export DS records (trust anchors) after configuring DNSSEC.

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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Exchange How To | Import and export individual inboxes as .pst files.

Importing and exporting individual user inboxes is a fairly simple process and remains largely the same across multiple releases (nothing has changed in regards to how you do this so far between Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange 2016 RTM). Just simply run the following commands in the Exchange Management Shell.

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Azure | Move an Azure VM between subscriptions (Azure Classic Environment)

You may be aware that all of your data is stored in something called a ‘Blob Storage Account’. Each Azure subscription can have many blob storage accounts but not the other way around. You cannot share blob storage accounts between Azure subscriptions. That means there’s no easy way to move VMs around between Azure subscriptions

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