N.B. you should only do this if the WAN interface is actually on a protected network!
Set up a new firewall rule on the WAN:
- First section should be Pass, WAN, IPv4, TCP
- Source: Restrict as appropriate (note – need multiple rules if wanting to allow multiple subnets through).
- Destination: WAN address
- Destination port range: HTTPS (443)
Save this.
Note that if your WAN network has private addresses on it then you also need to configure the WAN interface to allow this (bottom of configuration page, uncheck Block private networks and loopback addresses). Note that you will then see this rule removed from the firewall WAN list.
To reset BIOS passwords on Optiplex 780 (small form factor shown here);
- Power off system and remove jumper (normally blue) from PSWD1
- Boot system – BIOS should alert about password disabled.
- Power down and replace jumper
Password should now be cleared – check in BIOS settings.
If you need to install Office 365 on a user’s laptop but not activate it (because you can only do it five times yourself), read on…
Get the deployment tool (link for Office 365 2016)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117
Run the executable – this will extract the setup.exe and configuration.xml files. Put these in a handy directory.
The default configuration.xml should be ok for downloading the installation sources (32-bit Office and Visio). Run setup.exe /download – this will download the office sources to a subdirectory Office\Data (there’s about 1.25 Gb of files). Note there is no progress indicator!
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Sometimes Seagate DiscWizard insists on rebooting, even if you’re cloning between two non-system drives. It is worth checking the state of the target drive. I found that even with no partitions, a target drive with a GPT partition table caused this issue. Solved by firing up diskpart:
list disk
select disk {number}
clean
This wipes the partition table (and consequently the disk appears in the Disk Management console as not initialized). DiscWizard should then clone to it without complaints.
If you are using Outlook it’s reasonably straightforward to access additional mailboxes on your Exchange mailserver. Using other clients it’s a bit more obscure. The Glasgow Exchange server can be accessed via IMAP (although it’s best to use the native exchange protocols when you can). To access a mailbox called mail_box use these settings (using Thunderbird as an example):
Note that when using an Apple or Android phone, you can access your primary mailbox using the Exchange protocol (and it’s recommended to do so). However, this is a reduced functionality mobile version which does not give access to additional mailboxes. For these, you have to use an IMAP connection (i.e. set up an additional mail account and use the settings above).