Posts from August 2023

Posts from August 2023 (5)

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  Published on

  2023-08-29 2:10 p.m.

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  koskila

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  dockerdsmhomeassistantsynology

  How to install Home Assistant on Synology NAS (DSM 7.2)?

  This article explains how to install Home Assistant on your Synology NAS device using Container Manager and Web Station. This probably applies to DSM 7.2+ on any somewhat modern Synology DiskStation device. A lot of the steps also apply if you're setting up ANY containers to run on your NAS, to be fair. But let's not get ahead of ourselves!

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  Published on

  2023-08-22 1:42 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  modernsharepointpnppowershellsharepoint-online

  How to configure a custom 404 page for a SharePoint site?

  This article explains how to use some archaic PowerShell magic to configure a custom 404 page for your Modern SharePoint Online Communication site. If you've been working with SharePoint for a while, this property might be already familiar to you. A lot of settings for each site collection are stored in the root site's property bag, and that's where you'll find the key “vti_filenotfoundpage” which should have the value "/sites/ContosoPublishing/Pages/PageNotFoundError.aspx”. Classic.

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  Published on

  2023-08-15 4:12 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  azuredevopsdocker

  Azure DevOps pipelines suddenly failing with "##[error]#0 building with default instance using docker driver"

  Another (possibly?) timely and weird one here! This article explains how to work around Azure DevOps suddenly stopping to play nice with Docker and the rest of our tooling and causing all builds to fail with oddly non-descript error messages. Annoying to deal with but not the end of the world as we'll see! Background Another odd one for the books! No idea what caused it, but suddenly our pipelines started looking like this, with no clear reason (I mean, we break builds all the time...

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  Published on

  2023-08-08 8:02 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

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  windows

  How to fix Windows not recognizing your mouse clicks?

  Since I ran into this annoying little issue again, I thought it might be a good time to document it for the next person who needs to google it on their phone, after frantically clicking every single button they have on their mouse, only to realize their computer really doesn't care about any of that. None of the clicks do anything. I've only ever run into this on Windows 10, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens on other versions as well.

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  Published on

  2023-08-01 10:43 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  outlookwindowswindowssearch

  Outlook Search broken due to Windows Search acting up? Here's 3 ways to fix it!

  Well, this was kind of a dumb one. Search in Outlook suddenly stopped working completely. And I don't mean the normal "Outlook Search can't find anything" -kind of issues, I mean it literally found zero results with any search terms. Well, everything is buggy and nothing works. Not that unusual by itself, but something that should be fixed. This article explains how to fix it. Well, even a couple of different ways to fix it!

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