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  • Customise Garmin Edge course track colour

    By default, Garmin Edge cycling head units display course track while navigating in purple.   This usually is fine, however, if you enable Garmin’s Popularity Heatmap Layer, this is also displayed in various shades of purple. When navigating normally, this is not a massive issue as Garmin will clearly display arrows and chevrons to indicate the…

  • Microsoft 365 SharePoint – View folder sizes

    Microsoft 365 SharePoint doesn’t show folder sizes in any prominent place. You also can’t check folder size by clicking on Details or Properties as you would do in Windows. Luckily it’s quite easy to view folder sizes if you know where to look. The quickest way is simply to add /_layouts/15/storman.aspx to the end of your…

  • Enable US landline dial-in number for Teams Meetings

    The below steps allow you to enable dial-in numbers for MS Teams users. June 2023Microsoft Office 365Microsoft Teams

  • Little Lumpy Sportive Review (2022-2023)

    There are only some many times you can go up your local hills before it gets a bit boring and you start craving something new. A sportive slightly further afield is a good way to experience some new scenery and some new hills. I first came across Little Lumpy Sportive in the spring of 2022.…

  • Users can’t see images on Office 365 SharePoint Intranet site

    Issue All non-admin users within the company cannot see images on the main internal company’s SharePoint Intranet site. All they can see are placeholder images. Resolution After a short investigation, I found that the images in question were located inside SiteAssets sub-folder / library. Although all users had read-only access to the SharePoint site itself, only…

  • Publicly accessible Google API key for Google Cloud Platform…

    This morning I received a somewhat worrying email from Google. Full email text: Suspicious Activity AlertPublicly accessible Google API key for Google Cloud Platform project (id: )Dear Customer,We have detected a publicly accessible Google API key associated with the following Google Cloud Platform project:Project (id: ) with API keyThe key was found at the following…

  • Office 365 keeps automatically removing user from Teams Group

    Issue A user keeps being removed from Office 365 Teams Group for no apparent reason. The group admin keeps re-adding the user, but within 12-48 hours the user disappears from the group members list again. Azure Audit Logs show the user being removed but without any explanation of why this happened. Activity Type: Remove member…

  • Office 365 Admin Portal – [EXO Outage] NotFound received from

    Issue Updating email aliases for users on the Office 365 admin portal. After updating around 10 users, the below error started popping up trying to save any changes. [EXO Outage] NotFound received fromExchange|$$|ContextClass=AdHoc|$$|0=NotFound|$$| Office 365 Heath page wasn’t reporting any issues. Logging out and then back in using another browser didn’t help. Resolution I wanted…

  • Joomla JCE Editor strips out Sourcerer php, javascript and other code

    Issue Joomla JCE Editor doesn’t work with Sourcerer and similar plugins that allow placing PHP and other code inside articles. The code can be added and saved in the JCE Code tab, but as soon as the view is changed to Editor, all or part of the code is stripped out. Resolution As per JCE…

  • Auto-increase Build number in Xcode

    There are lots of tutorials online showing how to implement automatic Build number increase in Xcode. The simplest one is adding a new Run Script Phase to Project Build Phases and inserting agvtool bump. Unfortunately, I found that this causes a strange issue when the project build randomly stops at the very end and just shows Build Cancelled…

  • WordPress – There has been a critical error on this website

    Issue A WordPress website stopped working. Both, front-end and back-end (admin) sites are not loading. Instead, the following message is displayed by a web browser: There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions. There is nothing relevant in the site’s admin email inbox.

  • Teams profile picture – There was a problem saving the photo

    Issue Users (including those with admin/owner permissions) cannot change a profile picture for one particular Team in MS Teams. The same issue occurs in the Windows Desktop Teams app, Teams web access, and Teams iOS app. Only one Team is affected, other Teams set up in exactly the same ways can be updated as expected.…