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  • Adopt orphaned Ubiquity UniFi devices

    Ubiquity UniFi Cloud Key controllers are notorious for getting corrupted database after powering them off without clean shut down. Best course of action in such cases is to factory reset the Cloud Key and then restore from a backup up. If no backup is available you’ll have to factory reset and reconfigure it from scratch.…

  • Vegas Movie Studio stopped recognizing iPhone .mov files after upgrade to iOS11

    Apple made changes to their image and video formats in iOS 11. For photos, instead of JPG they now use High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF). For videos, instead of H.264 they now use High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). As a result, Vegas (Sony) Movie Studio no longer recognises .mov files created by iPhones and iPads running iOS11 (or imports…

  • Migrating contacts and calendar from iCloud to Office 365

    I had a task of migrating few thousands contacts and some calendars from Apple iCloud to Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange) system. Importing Calendars was pretty straight forward: Export all calendars in .ics format on a Mac via buit-on Calendar (select your calendar > File > Export > Export). Open .ics calendar on Windows Machine with…

  • Office 365 – Accessing Shared Calendar on MacOS and iOS

    This is how I normally create a company-wide Shared Calendar in Office 365: Exchange Admin Center > Recipients > Shared Create a new Shared Account Edit account’s properties and in Mailbox Delegation  tab add All Users group to Full Access list. This will give your users permission to add shared calendar to their MS Outlook…

  • Google Mobile-Friendly Test reports Joomla site as not mobile friendly

    Issue A Joomla website that uses a responsive design and would normally be considered mobile friendly is reported by Google Mobile-Friendly Test as not mobile friendly.

  • SonicWall Content Filter doesn’t block Youtube on Google Chrome (QUIC)

    Issue SonicWall Content Filter is setup to allow all web access during lunch break time, but block all non-work related websites for the rest of the day. Mostly this works as expected, but some users are able to access Youtube during work hours. This only affects users on Google Chrome browser. Users on Internet Explorer and…

  • Create Child Apple ID with Gmail as login ID (or any other non iCloud email)

    If you want to create an Apple ID for a child under 13 years old you have to do it on your own Apple device in Family Sharing. One disadvantage in doing it this way is that you are forced to create a new @icloud.com email address and use it as an Apple ID / iCloud ID…

  • Installing LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S7

    I used below instructions to flash LineageOS on a stock Samsung Galaxy S7 (herolte, arm64, exynos 8890). no rooting was required. If you intend to follow these instructions, do this at your own risk – this will surely delete all data on your phone and void manufacturer’s warranty. Also, there is always a risk of bricking your device.…

  • Exchange Online – Move emails sent to alias to another folder

    Issue Creating an inbox rule in Office 365 / Exchange Online that moves emails sent to user’s alias to a subfolder inside inbox. Standard rule <The message was sent to ‘alias-email@domain.com’> doesn’t work as intended. When saving the rule, Microsoft Exchange resolves the alias into primary user’s email address. This results into all emails being moved to the…

  • Arduino – Calculate Person’s Age in Years, Months, Days

    Here is code I recently used to calculate persons age in Years, Months, and Days on Arduino: #include “RTClib.h”RTC_DS3231 rtc; // Using DS3231 Real Time Clock DateTime now = rtc.now(); // Current Date and TimeDateTime dob = DateTime(1984,8,16,0,0,0); // Date of Birth (1984.08.16 00:00:00)int t0 = dob.year() * 12 + dob.month() – 1;int t =…

  • SonicWall SSO – Excluding Service User Accounts

    Dell SonicWall Single Sign On (SSO) agent often pulls service user accounts (Sophos Antivirus, Nvidia Updater, etc.) instead of actual logged in users. I noticed that this is especially prominent when DC Security Logs option is used. In this example SonicWall SSO agent is pulling sophos.update account instead of actual logged-in domain users.

  • The WIFI_SERVICE must be looked up on the Application context…

    Issue Generating signed APK in Android Studio 2.3 fails with following error: Error: The WIFI_SERVICE must be looked up on the Application context or memory will leak on devices < Android N. Try changing  to .getApplicationContext()  [WifiManagerLeak]