macOS: ASDM Developer Cannot Be Verified
Apr10

macOS: ASDM Developer Cannot Be Verified

KB ID 0001667 Problem When trying to connect to a Firepower 1010 ASDM I was met with this; “Cisco ASDM-IDM.app” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. macOS cannot verify that this ap is free from malware Solution If you’ve spent much time using macOS then this is quite common, Open System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General tab > You will see a warning about the Cisco ASDM-IDM...

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Group Policy: Item-Level Targeting
Feb08

Group Policy: Item-Level Targeting

KB ID 0001654 Problem Yesterday I wrote a post about Deploying a ‘Mapped’ Drive to a couple of users using Group Policy. This received a comment that was basically ‘Why not simply use Client Targeting?’ To be fair that’s a good point, I was using a Group Policy Preference and they can be specifically targeted. So here’s how to do that. Solution If you do not already have one, create a group for your...

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EditPlus – Enable ‘Word Wrap’ Permanently
Nov17

EditPlus – Enable ‘Word Wrap’ Permanently

KB ID 0000675  Problem I work with text files a a lot, and while Notepad is great, sometimes I want to look at line numbers or do some spell checking, so I prefer EditPlus. The biggest problem with that is, by default word wrap is disabled. You can simply go to Document > Word-wrap, but it only affects the open document. I want word wrap enabled globally! Solution 1. Whilst in EditPlus > Tools > Preference > File >...

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Stop EditPlus  Creating .bak files
Nov17

Stop EditPlus Creating .bak files

KB ID 0000825  Problem I use EditPlus 3 a lot for editing firewall configs, and just taking notes. But freshly installed it has the annoying habit of creating .bak (backup) files for every file you work on. I tend to keep the notes I’m working on on my desktop, so this can clutter it up with annoying icons. Solution 1. Launch EditPlus > Tools > Preferences > Files. 2. Untick ‘Create backup file when saving’...

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Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy
Nov17

Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy

KB ID 0000805  Problem I’ve briefly mentioned this before when I wrote about Group Policy Preferences so when I had to do this on-site this week, I jumped straight into the group policy management console, and found that because my ODBC connection was using SQL authentication (with the SQL sa account), this would NOT WORK, (it only works with Windows authentication and even then it needs a tweak). If you are using SQL...

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