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Take control of your iPhone photos again

Take control of your iPhone photos again-6

I am a big fan of Apple products and love the design and intuitiveness with which they are presented.  There is however one thing that I think Apple is doing very badly and which gets increasingly worse with each implementation.  This is the business of how it deals with your photos.  I put the emphasis on your because it feels less and less like Apple want you to actually own them.  It is a simple notion – I want to get my photos off of my iPhone.  How do I get my photos off of my iPhone?  Then with increasing anger and intensity – where are my photos?  There is also the question of file formats and why a decision was made on my behalf to change this.

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Create an SSTP VPN Server in Windows Server 2016

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I had already created an L2TP VPN server in Windows Server 2016 which worked great with my IOS devices but I found did not work so well with Windows 10.  Therefore I created an SSTP VPN Server to access my devices via my home broadband connection (Sky Fibre).  I found that this works perfectly with all my Windows 10 machines.  The main difference between L2TP and SSTP is that for SSTP we need to use certificates.  We will cover everything you need to get this up and running below.

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Use DuckDNS to keep track of your external IP and use an external DNS name

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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Create an L2TP VPN Server in Windows Server 2016

Create an L2TP VPN Server in Windows 2016-39

I wanted to create a VPN server that I could use to access my home internet connection (Sky Fibre).  I chose L2TP for this task as I want to connect to the VPN fairly frequently with the iPhone/iPad.  As the IOS devices have a built in L2TP VPN client and I didn’t want to rely on a 3rd party one this made it an easy choice.  For Windows 10 machines connecting in to my VPN I setup an SSTP VPN connection on the same server.  The reason for this was that Windows 10 doesn’t play well with L2TP behind a NAT firewall.  The setup for the L2TP VPN is as below.

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