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Solution: Disable AutoSave for Excel, Word or PowerPoint (Office 365) Permanently

Solution: Disable AutoSave for Excel, Word or PowerPoint (Office 365) Permanently

So you want to disable AutoSave on your Office applications huh? Yep I don’t blame you, while I love the version control that comes from using SharePoint, OneDrive and the Office 365 platform, AutoSave drives me absolutely crazy and to my mind is a poor implementation of what could be great. Opening files to read ...
Bob McKay 1950 views 13 likes May 30, 2020 Business, IT Support & Networking, Office 365, Software Share
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Custom Backgrounds in Microsoft Teams

Custom Backgrounds in Microsoft Teams

With more and more people working from home, we find ourselves in on Teams conference calls in some strange settings (I work in my loft!) which can be distracting to say the least. Earlier in the year Microsoft helped mitigate this while adding an element of fund to Teams calls with the introduction of background effec ...
Bob McKay 1270 views 11 likes May 27, 2020 Business, Cloud & SASS, IT Support & Networking, Office 365, Software, Training & Education Share
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Solution: Can’t Paste in to Outlook Search Box

Solution: Can’t Paste in to Outlook Search Box

UPDATE: June 2020 Please note that if you can paste in to the search bar using the shortcut CTRL + V and not right click, the chances are you are simply on the newer version of Outlook and at present this is expected behavior from Microsoft.  The fix below was written for a different issue where some users could not pa ...
Bob McKay 7156 views 14 likes May 17, 2020 Office 365, Outlook, Software, Windows Share
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Using the Hikvision Vandal Resistant Doorbell with a Synology NAS

Using the Hikvision Vandal Resistant Doorbell with a Synology NAS

As part of home improvements I was on the lookout for a video doorbell to use on the outside gates of my home, I had a few pre-requisites: It needed to be powered by POE, no batteries to replace It should be weatherproof and tough I didn’t want to have to pay a monthly subscription to use it (a la Ring doorbells) ...
Bob McKay 2570 views 7 likes Mar 25, 2020 Hardware, IT Support & Networking, NAS & Media Servers, Surveillance, Tech & Gadgets Share
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Synology NAS: Video Station Media Server (Review & Tips)

Synology NAS: Video Station Media Server (Review & Tips)

As part of my ongoing project to retrofit our old stone house with a fast, multi-purpose network, I purchased a for the primary purpose of providing a destination for my IP cameras to record to via the excellent free Surveillance Station add-on. Once I started tinkering without however, I realised how powerful the Syno ...
Bob McKay 4009 views 12 likes Jan 5, 2020 Hardware, IT Support & Networking, NAS & Media Servers, Tech & Gadgets Share
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SOLVED: Windows 10 Keyboard Typing Random Characters

SOLVED: Windows 10 Keyboard Typing Random Characters

UPDATE 30 Dec 2019: After visiting family and finding they had the same issue with random characters in the save dialog box, I realised the only common software we had on our systems other than the Windows 10 operating system was Sophos Home Premium.  I dug around the settings a little bit and found an option which sol ...
Bob McKay 5915 views 27 likes Dec 30, 2019 Hardware, IT Support & Networking, Windows Share
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Basic Kali Linux Setup

Basic Kali Linux Setup

So you want to tinker with Kali Linux huh?  This aims to be a (very) brief quick start guide and it assumes you have installed Kali on a machine, on a bootable kali USB drive or in a virtual environment. Note: As Kali Linux is a web established security tool, . Logging in You can login to Kali Linux using the default c ...
Bob McKay 1683 views 18 likes Nov 25, 2019 CISSP, Ethical Hacking, IT Support & Networking, Security Share
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Create a Bootable Kali Linux USB Drive (2019)

Create a Bootable Kali Linux USB Drive (2019)

I thought I’d write a quick update guide on installing Kali Linux from USB as I’m hoping to encourage more friends to install an instance and start playing. This guide assumes you’re using a Windows computer to prepare the bootable USB drive and you already have a 4GB drive (or greater) ready to forma ...
Bob McKay 22981 views 19 likes Oct 30, 2019 Ethical Hacking, Security Share
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Setting Up DomainKeys (DKIM) in Office 365 Hosted Email

Setting Up DomainKeys (DKIM) in Office 365 Hosted Email

UPDATED 25th Sept 2019 Updated due to changes in the Office 365 admin section Microsoft implemented DKIM signing for outbound emails early in 2015 but the implementation was still a little clunky, requiring knowledge of the DKIM DNS formatting and the liberal application PowerShell commands. Fortunately, they have impr ...
Bob McKay 16043 views 12 likes Sep 24, 2019 Cloud & SASS, Office 365, Security Share
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Deploying Metasploitable 2 on a Microsoft Server with Hyper-V

Deploying Metasploitable 2 on a Microsoft Server with Hyper-V

IMPORTANT NOTE: At the time of writing, Metasploitable 2 has no synthetic drivers for Hyper-V and so cannot communicate with the server via a virtual switch, even using the drives from the Linux Integration Services (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55106) In preparation for some ethical hacking ...
Bob McKay 4851 views 11 likes Sep 19, 2019 CISSP, Ethical Hacking, IT Support & Networking, Security Share
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