Situation: new MacBook with OSX Sierra. Set up with an admin account, enable FileVault (taking note of recovery key obviously!) and install the necessary. Create account for end user and give it to them. All is well (after getting some USB-A to USB-C converters…)
User restores all his stuff from a Time Machine backup to the account on the new system – this overwrites all the current user settings. After rebooting the system, his account has disappeared from the login screen.
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Had a situation today where we were trying to check out a SVN repository and kept getting
Check Out: Cleanup with an older 1.7 client before upgrading with this client
both with SmartSVN and the OSX command line svn – into a new clean directory.
The problem turned out to be an old .svn metadata folder in the directory above which should have been deleted when rearranging folders. This seemed not to affect existing working copies below this, but it looks like it did cause problems with creating new working copies. Deleting the rogue .svn directory made things work.
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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