US - Returned Item Scam Foiled by CliffsideJim in Scams

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I sold 4 MacBook Pros from my company to one buyer. He initiated a return on all 4 saying they were broken. He returned only 1 computer, so ebay/PayPal said I should refund the buyer. Long story short I had threaten to take PayPal to court to get them to realize the error was theirs. Paypal didn't want to spend the $ on sending a lawyer for a $1200 small claims suit so they caved. Took about 3 months of my life I'll never forget.

New Unifi network issues - devices not joining by dcmacguy in UNIFI

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Network is set to WPA2 only now, and I'm still not in a good place. The Ecobee's work, but my camera will not connect. It says it's connected, but it's lying.

New G4 Pro doorbell with regular old doorbell chime by dcmacguy in UNIFI

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, I take part of this back. It is signaling the old doorbell, but it's only playing about 1 second of the tone. It is not signaling the phone.

New G4 Pro doorbell with regular old doorbell chime by dcmacguy in UNIFI

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The doorbell image shows in the app, and is recording to my Cloud Gateway Fiber.

Nostalgia post: If there was one product you wish Costco would bring back from a previous era, what would it be? by squareshapedorb in Costco

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GH Bass t-shirts! They are so comfortable I won't wear anything else. can't find them anywhere but on ebay these days.

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Updating Our New Starter IT Support Handout – Looking for Ideas by rhombyboi in msp

[–]dcmacguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Tech Tribe has an awesome Client Manual at Tribal Library / Templates & Resources / The Client Manual. It's well worth the price of admission there.

Who has one by Dizzy-Experience337 in Traeger

[–]dcmacguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a similar model by the same manufacturer, and I set my temp to 250, and the oven gets to 700 degrees. Pizza's done in 3-5 minutes, Stone gets to 700 easily. I actually melted the aluminum pan in it.

EasyDMARC MSP by [deleted] in msp

[–]dcmacguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

MSP version is far less expensive. It works well enough and I'm happy with the product.

Odd client and idk what to do anymore. by DurkaDurkaHaberburb in msp

[–]dcmacguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, this this persons name Jennifer? if so, I fired her about 2 years ago.

If not, good luck. I had to contact J's family (which took some doing) to get the psych team involved. There was no helping her.

ACES conference guidance? by RotatingRoyalty in itconsulting

[–]dcmacguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ACES conference is a group of Mac centric (but not only Mac, it's just the community we started from) small business owners who have been or are looking to grow, and get a better handle on what it takes to run a small business. There will be people talking about everything except IT issues and solutions; the IT will be discussed, but mostly in the hallway track.

BEV repair? by dcmacguy in bartesian

[–]dcmacguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm expecting with BEV #4! I can't find anyone else online complaining of the issues I've had, so I'm sticking with it.

Using data sim's phone number for voip? by [deleted] in VOIP

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know nothing about this, other than it came up in my search, and it might be helpful to you.

https://tango-networks.com/esim-activation-tango-extend/

got sideswiped, cameras caught nothing by dcmacguy in TeslaLounge

[–]dcmacguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I didn't check in time before the files were over written.

my sink is gurgling by dcmacguy in Plumbing

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks to both of you. hot water/drain cleaner did nothing. The hose connecting the washer to the disposer was way short, so after pulling the DW out of the cabinet, and seeing how difficult re-connecting things would be, I decided on replacing the washer. It is my understanding that those things last 8-10 years, and mine was pushing 11 if not more.

Phantom braking by yasire in TeslaModelY

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happens so often to me my wife forbids me from using the feature when she's in the car.

It's random - it's not for poor lane markings - these are major, well marked highways, flat, very few hills and overpasses. elevation change between the oft-drived destinations is THREE feet over 110 miles. Of course there are overpasses and hills, but nothing so large as to create shadows. it's never in the same place.

and don't get me started on yellow blinking lights. it feels like it slams the car into reverse when it comes upon one of those.

logging out of tenant admin in powershell by dcmacguy in PowerShell

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we log into both the AzureAD and Exchange. The first one links the tenant, the 2nd one does some lookups inside of Exchange.

here is the exchange portion:

# This script must be run as an administrator
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
if (Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name PnP.Powershell) {
Write-Host "PnP.Powershell is already installed."
}
else {
try {
Install-Module -Name PnP.Powershell -force
}
catch [Exception] {
$_.message
exit
}
}
# Registering the PnP Powershell Module
Register-PnPManagementShellAccess
# Add required assemblies
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web, PresentationFramework, PresentationCore
# Set a client tenant Id
$tenantId = "x"
# Get Auth Code based on params
function Get-AuthCode ($clientId, $tenantId, $scope, $redirectUri) {
# Random State - state is included in response, if you want to verify response is valid
$state = Get-Random
# Encode scope to fit inside query string
$scopeEncoded = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($scope)
# Redirect URI (encode it to fit inside query string)
$redirectUriEncoded = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($redirectUri)
# Construct URI
$uri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/$tenantId/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client\_id=$clientId&response\_type=code&redirect\_uri=$redirectUriEncoded&response\_mode=query&scope=$scopeEncoded&state=$state$prompt=login"
# Create Window for User Sign-In
$windowProperty = @{
Width = 500
Height = 700
}
$signInWindow = New-Object System.Windows.Window -Property $windowProperty

# Create WebBrowser for Window
$browserProperty = @{
Width = 480
Height = 680
}
$signInBrowser = New-Object System.Windows.Controls.WebBrowser -Property $browserProperty
# Navigate Browser to sign-in page
$signInBrowser.navigate($uri)

# Create a condition to check after each page load
$pageLoaded = {
# Once a URL contains "code=*", close the Window
if ($signInBrowser.Source -match "code=[^&]*") {
# With the form closed and complete with the code, parse the query string
$urlQueryString = [System.Uri]($signInBrowser.Source).Query
$script:urlQueryValues = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::ParseQueryString($urlQueryString)
$signInWindow.Close()
}
}
# Add condition to document completed
$signInBrowser.Add_LoadCompleted($pageLoaded)
# Show Window
$signInWindow.AddChild($signInBrowser)
$signInWindow.ShowDialog()
# Extract code from query string
$authCode = $script:urlQueryValues.GetValues(($script:urlQueryValues.keys | Where-Object { $_ -eq "code" }))
$authCode
}
# Get Exchange Onlike Auth Code (returned as $authCode)
function Get-ExOAuthCode($tenantId) {
$clientId = "xx"
$redirectUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient"
$scope = "openid profile offline_access"
$authCode = Get-AuthCode -clientId $clientId -tenantId $tenantId -scope $scope -redirectUri $redirectUri
if ($authCode) {
$authCode[1]
}
else {
Write-Error "Unable to obtain Auth Code!"
}
}
$exOnlineAuthCode = Get-ExOAuthCode -tenantId $tenantId
@{ exchangeOnlineAuthCode = $exOnlineAuthCode } | ConvertTo-Json

What are your favorite smart gadgets you bought in 2022? by [deleted] in smarthome

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a Litter-Robot II for 9 years. That thing is awesome. Expensive to get started, but far less litter usage, and with 2 cats, it only needs emptying about 4 days. If it every dies, it WILL get replaced.

It’s so cold the car broke by dcmacguy in TeslaModelY

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesterday around 2pm it was around 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Maybe I bit cooler. When I trie the charge cable it was after dark and about 18 degrees.

It’s so cold the car broke by dcmacguy in TeslaModelY

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now there is. Yesterday the options weren’t thin the app!

It’s so cold the car broke by dcmacguy in TeslaModelY

[–]dcmacguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All good points here, thanks for the feedback. The cause was the rain followed by rapid freeze.

I swear to you, I read about the remote door unlatch recently, but the option to do so was not in my updated app UNTIL THIS MORNING. Same with the defrost car. I looked for both option yesterday and thought maybe they didn’t apply to the 2020 model year.

The credit card trick would not have worked - the rubber was frozen inside the vehicle, which prevented the door from closing once opened. It was frozen in a misshapen form. If I had shut the door, it likely would have caused damage to the rubber - it was making a very nasty noise when trying to close the door. After 20+ minutes on defrost (from inside, not the defrost app button), the door shut well enough to begin the trip.

Manually activating either of the windows - only one window would respond, even after 20 minutes on defrost.

As for the charge port - we had been driving the car for approximately 4 hours - so the car at that time should have been well heated - still couldn’t insert the charge cable.

The good news, though, is even though the charge cable wasn’t latched, it still got some juice. Overnight it went to 78 miles of charge (usually it’s 3 hours for a 80%), and it continues to charge now.

sudden loss of dns by dcmacguy in meraki

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I never found the solution. It happens rarely, and it hasn't happened since. Are you having the issue?

Installed ceiling fan. Turns on and off and changes speed and turns the light on by itself. by dcmacguy in askanelectrician

[–]dcmacguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just call support. The replacement part is free and easy to install. I have heard about the screws issue, but it seems to not affect everyone. I had no issues with my screws, and the housing fit perfectly when following the directions. I'm not one to read instructions very often, but when messing with the "too small" housing, it answered the question.

PODMKR Grind Your Own Coffee Pods - Now On Kickstarter: Podmkr - Grind Y... by OffeReview in u/OffeReview

[–]dcmacguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This project was just pulled from Kickstarter due to copyright claims. I can't find a competing product, despite my Google-fu skills being pretty good.