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 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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Configure Office 365 to connect Outlook to your mobile device using Microsoft Intune – Apple IOS

This is a quick guide that can be given directly to the end user in order for them to connect their Apple IOS mobile devices to Office 365.  The guide runs through how to download an configure the apps and setup Outlook.

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Migrating to Office 365 from Microsoft Exchange Step By Step – Stage 6 Configuring Intune

Migrating to Office 365 from Microsoft Exchange Step By Step – Stage 6 Configuring Intune-25

Now that we have configured the Exchange 2016 Office 365 hybrid setup and are able to successfully migrate mailboxes we need a way for users to securely access their Office 365 mail and other services from their mobile devices.  To do this we need to setup and configure Microsoft Intune.

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