René's ICT Notepad

Am running on a Mac for a real number of years now and also I get more connected to the Microsoft environment than ever before, especially anything cloud related (Office 365 and Azure). Now, I want to connect to the MS cloud from my Mac. Would that be possible or do I need to run everything on my Windows VM? No, MS explains here how to run Powershell on Mac OS . It starts off with installing Brew (never heard of!) and then have Brew install Powershell onto Mac OS. Now, further to connecting to 365/Azure... To be continued!

Yesterday, the iPhone's App Store offered to update two of my apps, and as always I agreed to get them updated. However, the apps did not update, but instead got stuck with status "Waiting". Nothing helped: rebooted the phone without result, removed the apps and tried to reinstall them from the App Store but also without result (even worse, the apps would not even reinstall but also got stuck in "Waiting"), logoff from the App Store and back on, moved from WiFi to 3G. Nothing worked... There are some excellent help pages out there, specifically on this subject, but all that is mentioned there did not work in my case. Until I found a page that I cannot find again now, but there was my solution: the App updates were waiting for a large podcast, that was keeping the apps from getting updated. After removing the podcast update, all the apps started updating like normal. Maybe someone will run into the same issue, then this is your solution... Regards, Rene

Unlike Entourage and Outlook, Apple Mail follows its own guidelines for whether an attachment should display inline (as in, you see the entire attachment right in the message) or as an icon (as in, you have to double-click the attachment to view it). To toggle an attachment’s display method, right-click the attachment within your unsent message and choose View As Icon or View In Place. To force attachments to always display as icons, use this Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes Used without permission, so here's the link back: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/10_ways_soup_apple_mail?page=0,1 . Regards, Rene

Cool or what? Time-based ACLs on Cisco ASA . Say, you would want to implement certain restrictions or access-lists that only should be valid during certain time windows (ie, allow guest access to internet only during business hours). This type of ACL along with the "time windows" feature will allow you to do exactly that... :-) Regards, Rene

Numerous posts and pages can be found about the annoying Apple Mail signature font size issue, but here's the page that I have used to fix mine. Excellent and simple explanation...

Yes, it’s been a while since I last posted here. My previous post – yes, the one about formatting large disks for FAT32 – was the first post in ages. At least, the first post in the IE9-age. I soon discovered that I was not even able to publish from IE9… Pressing F12 to enable developer mode and then switching back to IE9 Compatibility View delivered the workaround for the short term. I can publish now. Anyone a clue about the real resolution for this problem? (And, no, I am not interested in tips like “use Chrome or Firefox”…) As soon as I have the fix, I’ll post it here. Regards, Rene Update: been googling for this issue and there are so many people with this same problem, telling and blogging about this, even with recent post timestamps!; from what I read, it seems that this issue is the result of a fight two giants and it will not soon be fixed. So, please take my last line above exactly as I say it: "as soon as I have the fix, I'll post it"... And I think the fix wil