Category: News

Charity Works

For many years now, we’ve recycled computers for clients. You’d think the main benefit for clients is the extra space they gain, but for us it’s a multi layered benefit. We get to clean up the site for the client, make sure the data is unrecoverable, and refurbish some gear to save it from landfill and benefit someone who may

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Managing Printers with Mosyle

Warning- most of this article is now obsolete, with Apple wanting you to use AirPrint. I’ll add updated notes as the requirements emerge, but for now, have a look at how we got AirPrint services working for a Konica Minolta C754e and Fiery E100 here I’m beginning to love Mosyle, but it definitely has its quirks. There’s a bunch of

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Configuring Google Drive File Stream With Mosyle MDM

I had huge trouble with this, making it perhaps worthy of a blog post. There’s a lot of very confusing terminology, and finding the right combination of Extension profile, Kernel Extension profile, System Extension profile and the PPPC profile was driving me mad. Huge thanks to Kevin Ginger of kGinger Consulting for providing the eventual answer- and much simpler than

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Apple Business Manager Enrolment in Australia

As of 1 December 2019, Apple Business Manager replaces the Device Enrolment Program. So let’s enrol in ABM- this document assumes you aren’t upgrading. For those currently in DEP, the upgrade guide is here- https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208817 Here is the guide for enrolling in Apple Business Manager-https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/apple-business-manager/welcome/web Here is a list of the components you need for this- Apple Customer Number If you

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Work From Home

Quick article to help you decide what to do- how to organise your staff and set standards for home working. It all comes down to the decisions below- Take a work computer homePositives- it has all the data you need apart from stuff on the server, it’s set up exactly the way you likeNegatives- risk of getting busted during transport,

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TPG HFC NBN BYO Router- Unifi

Had a great deal of trouble at one site, trying to replace the dreadful TP-Link Archer 1600 device supplied by TPG. There’s lots of instructions available but these mostly concentrate on VDSL connections. My customer has HFC NBN. Anyway, the answer was relatively simple once I’d found a way to turn on both PPPOe and VLAN on for the WAN

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State of The Mac 2020- Updated January 2020

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated pretty much everything- I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly

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Grandstream WP820 and 3CX Setup

This information was not developed by me- thanks to Wayne Driver and Ben Smith for this info. I’ve added the ‘remote server’ section at the bottom The following was done with phone system on LAN, settings will differ if your phone system is on WAN. Drag and drop this FXS template to somewhere on your Desktop, supplied from GrandStream support

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Sending Scans from your Printer via Email

If you’ve ever tried to do this, you’ll know that it’s fraught with problems, here’s a few solutions that may get you out of trouble does your printer manufacturer have their own service you can use?For instance Brother allow you to send scans via their network so your scan will come from @Brother.com Office 365 users can use this doc

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