IT at the Speed of you – UncleJay's Ramblings.
Open terminal and type “sudo shutdown -r now” (Without quotes), you should be prompted for a password.
Open terminal type “sudo softwareupdate -i -a” (Without quotes) Hit enter Supply the password when it asks Reboot if prompted.
So you have a new computer, setting up a fresh copy of Office, and you go to login to the users email for the first time and get this lovely little error: “Something went wrong” Something went wrong and Outlook couldn’t set up your account. Please Try again. If the problem continues, contact your email […]
Power CLI really is a very powerful tool. It allows an admin to connect to a remote SSH session on an ESXi host as if they were at the machine. First step is to install PowerCLI on your machine. You can download it here : https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PCLI650R1&productId=614 Second step is to connect to your vCenter or […]
Super useful little trick. The command below will add a folder to your doc that will contain the last 10 apps you loaded. 1. Open Terminal 2. Paste this text : defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’ 3. Hit enter
Cool little OSX mod, want to add the full path to any folder to the Finder GUI? Check out the image and instructions below. Tested working on High Sierra. Open terminal, paste this “defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES ” minus the quotes, and hit enter.
Having trouble powering off a VM from your fat client? A few steps to try: 1. Did you try the web client? 2. SSH via putty to the target host running your VM, and try the “Restart-VM -vm VM_NAME” command. 3. If that dosnt work, you can force it off by identifying the running process’ […]
Need to see who else is logged onto your VM? Logon to the VM, open an elevated command prompt (CMD), and type “quser”. This will display a list of users currently at the console or logged onto the system. It will also tell you if they are using RDP or VMWare Console. (You must have VMWare […]
So – if your like me, you’ve had very mixed results using bootcamp. To be honest, I have had 3 Macbooks and have only ever had it work flawlessly on ONE of those Mac’s. My brand new 2016 Mac fails every time I try to install the second OS. From what I can tell, it […]
Installing OSX on an ESXi host opens a lot of doors and allows for some good/safe development areas (ie, Snapshots). Check it out:
