I started this blog years and years ago. I wanted a place where I could keep all my hints and tips that I learnt over the years. After multiple problems with hosting companies I decided to self host. It was never meant to be a place to get comments / shares or even any interaction from the outside world, it …
Siri controlling all my devices
I recently went back to iPhone after about 7 months of Android use… iPhone 10 broke so I held off until the iPhone 11 Pro came out. Now that I’ve got it back, I wanted to control my smart home with Siri. Actually not that easy! Unless they are Apple HomeKit devices, which apart from my Philips Hue everything else …
Lead Forensics Spam List
If like me you get bombarded by a company called Lead Forensics with emails, then more emails and more emails. Here is a list of blocked domains that I have received emails from. Please do use them! This company is an absolute disgrace. I’ll keep this list updated going forward as no doubt more domains will be appearing. Please use …
HomeAssistant nginx WebSocket fix Synology (UPDATED)
I had a previous post explaining the issue, I was having with HomeAssistant and Reverse Proxy running on a Synology NAS. Basically in short, you update DSM, then you cannot login to your home assistant installation via reverse proxy. Well luckily for us Synology have updated Docker and now there is a simple way of allowing access back. Just follow …
Install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2016
Get the sources folder from a Windows Server 2012 install disk Copy to local drive Install features .NET Framework 3.5 Features Change alternative source to e:\sources\sxs Install
Changing site URL GHOST Docker
So if you are like me and like to tinker about with different platforms you might be wondering how to update the URL for Ghost on a synology NAS docker image. After some digging I found out just how simple it was, rather than showing http://localhost:2345 mine now shows the correct URL. If the docker environment variables simply add Variable …
PowerShell – Script to copy document, check out, overwrite, check in and publish
I recently had a request to that I hadn’t had before. Requirements: Copy file from one location daily to overwrite an existing document File has to be the only that that gets checked in File is in some subfolders Check out and approve needs to be left turned on Versioning needs to be left on It needs to run at …
Restoring to a host name site collection (SharePoint 2013)
When backing up a SharePoint site and restoring to a HNSC (Host name site collection) the command is slightly different. You have to specify the web application and also the database that the HNSC sits in. For example: Restore-SPSite http://mysite -Path E:\TEMP\mysite.bak -force -HostHeaderWebApplication http://mywebapp -DatabaseName MySharePointDatabase The above command will restore the mysite.bak file to the URL http://mysite which …
Add-SPShellAdmin / Remove-SPShellAdmin
Adding a user to have permissions to run PowerShell Scripts against a SharePoint database Add-SPShellAdmin domain\user –database DB GUID Simple to remove as well you just need to run: Remove-SPShellAdmin domain\user -database DB GUID Finding database GUID Get-SPDatabase
Portainer Synology NAS Docker
If like me you wanted to install Portainer to manage your docker environment from where ever you are, using a synology NAS. Make sure you do the below. You first need to edit the dockerd.json file to allow access. The below is what my config file, basically you are just adding in: “hosts” : [ “tcp://localhost:2375”, “unix:///var/run/docker.sock” ], Edit: /var/packages/Docker/etc/dockerd.json …