Microsoft 365 Information Protection Setup Problems
UPDATE: Solution detailed at the bottom, currently Rights Management can only be enabled by PowerShell because – well – Microsoft. I’ve adapted a quote often used for REGEX to summar ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Windows Server 2022 performance issues & dashboard not loading
Spoiler alert: the problem for me was a recent update from Microsoft: KB5011497 I recently had one of those days when reconfiguring a domain controller I’d been playing with to start using it pr ...
Solution: Display Problems and/or Photoshop Crashing with Dell D6000 Dock
After a recent reinstall of Windows 10 on my laptop, I suddently discovered that Photoshop would no longer load – it crashed at the point of “initializing html surfaces”, presenting ...
Dell Tech Support – Repeat stupid questions, wrong conclusion & then fobbed off
So my father in law had a problem with Dell laptop, bough just over a year ago – which I advised him to buy because I’d had good experiences with Dell. Unfortunately, this back-fired spec ...
Photoshop: Your graphics processor is incompatible
Today I upgraded to Photoshop 2022 (specifically version 23.0.0 20211013.r.36 623993d x64) and when I launched it, was greeted with the fairly unhelpful message “Your graphics processor is incom ...
Deploy Hak5 Cloud C2 on AWS LightSail with SSL
UPDATE: I wrote an updated version of this tutorial (as of July 2022) available here: https://bobmckay.com/i-t-support-networking/ethical-hacking/deploy-hak5-cloud-c2-on-aws-lightsail-2022/ So I treat ...
Create a Security Honey Pot with OpenCanary and a Raspberry Pi 3 (Updated 2021)
I’ve created an updated version of my original Raspberry Pi 3 Honey Pot tutorial after I discovered it does work with newer versions of the Linux operating systems. After banging my ahead agains ...
Bluetooth Mouse Freezes after Inactivity
I noticed intermittent frustrating behaviour with my shiny new (awesome laptop by the way) when using it with my . If I didn’t move the mouse for 5 seconds (even if I was typing and so the lapt ...
Hack The Box Walkthrough: Oopsie
I’ve returned to HTB recently after a lack of ethical hacking and decided to dip my toe in the water with their “Starting Point” series of challenges. I thought I’d do a write ...
Install & Configure OpenVPN for Trust.Zone VPN on 4K Amazon Fire TV Stick
I use Trust.Zone when I want to VPN in to various other countries and wanted to add this functionality to my Fire TV Stick so that when I’m travelling, I can take it with me and still watch UK T ...