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Setting up a Shared Mailbox from Office 365 on a mobile device (without using IMAP)

Setting up a Shared Mailbox from Office 365 on a mobile device (without using IMAP)

Published 1. May 2019

Getting a Shared Mailbox from Office 365 in the desktop Outlook App is quite easy. As long as the user has the right permissions to the mailbox, it will automatically appear to the left in their Outlook sidebar. Getting the Shared Mailbox to work on a mobile device on the other hand, is a whole other story. Especially if you do not want to use the more widely known method of using IMAP. Which makes you lose support for the Calendar and Contacts for instance. Also, it’s way more typing involved with technical server addresses and other non-user friendly settings.

The method explained here is very easy and gives the Shared Mailbox the exact same functionality as any normal licensed mailbox account, except from actually having to use or have a separate license. (Since Shared Mailboxes are license-free in Office 365.)

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How to turn off System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS

How to turn off System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS

Published 12. September 2018

OS X El Capitan and later includes security technology that helps protect your Mac from malicious software.

System Integrity Protection is a security technology in OS X El Capitan and later that’s designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac. System Integrity Protection restricts the root user account and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the Mac operating system.

Before System Integrity Protection, the root user had no permission restrictions, so it could access any system folder or app on your Mac. Software obtained root-level access when you entered your administrator name and password to install the software. That allowed the software to modify or overwrite any system file or app.

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How to enable Airtime Fairness on Ubiquiti (UniFi) APs

How to enable Airtime Fairness on Ubiquiti (UniFi) APs

Published 5. February 2017

Enable ATF (Airtime Fairness) if you have more than 10 clients (give or take) to get equal bandwidth across all clients.

To be able to actually see the Airtime Fairness properties on the device, make sure you enable Advanced Features first under Settings -> Site -> Services.

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Install Office 365 on RDS Server (Terminal Server) via Shared Computer Activation

Install Office 365 on RDS Server (Terminal Server) via Shared Computer Activation

Published 24. January 2017

Microsoft Office 365 has the ability to run Office 365 ProPlus on a RDS Server using a feature called Shared Computer Activation. In this short and straight to the point walkthrough I will guide you step-by-step on how to achieve this. Please do exactly as instructed and this should work without any problems.

IMPORTANT: For this to work you must have Enterprise E3 or a higher level of subscription licensed to your account.

[UPDATE 23rd. March 2019]
Go directly to the Office Customization Tool to create your configuration.xml. Then use that in step 3.

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Installing Microsoft Windows onto DigitalOcean Droplet

Installing Microsoft Windows onto DigitalOcean Droplet

Published 11. December 2016

NEW – Updated 17th. October 2018: You can now use your own Custom Images (ISO’s) directly on DigitalOcean. So you do not need to go through all the steps below. (They will still be here in case someone used the previous installation method.)

So read these two articles instead on how to use your own ISO file:

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