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Many users will remember the days when dynDNS was free and enabled you to log your router into a dynDNS account to keep track of your external IP changes. This enabled you to contact your resources via an external DNS domain name. You can now do this with DuckDNS which is a free dynamic DNS service.
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Problem:
When trying to use a Flash enabled site in Google Chrome you cannot add the site to the Allowed list under the content settings as the setting does not exist.
This is particularly annoying if you are trying to use vCenter in Chrome for example and you have to click to enable Flash every single time.
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It is no secret that Sky have an absolutely diabolical software development department. Over the years I have used Sky Go I have seen it devolve into the mess that it is now. It never really worked well with IE (why did we have to use IE anyway?!). Now it has it’s very own Windows 10 app it comes with the usual compliment of bugs. The error many of you will get is Something went wrong, try reinstalling the app. If you’re still having trouble, please contact our customer services team for help and quote the error code below to get things going again. Code 7005. It seems that Sky (bless them) are more than a little worried about us thieving customers pirating the material – that we er already paid for. To that end they have spent more time and money implementing Cisco VideoGuard (an anti-piracy app) than they did making the app a nice experience for us users.
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I recently set this up for a client and was very impressed with the results. I’m guessing that the reason you are reading this is for assistance with your own Okta deployment but I’ll give you a quick overview of what it is all about anyway.
In a nutshell Okta allows your users to sign in to their machines one single time using their Active Directory credentials and are then automatically authenticated to any other sites/applications configured within Okta.
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Problem: How do I create a fully managed installer for Adobe Reader with the latest .msp updates slipstreamed in?
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