Author: Mikail

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Office 365 Quarantine Tool

If you find yourself using the Office 365 (Exchange Online) e-mail quarantine often then you probably know how frustrating and slow it can be to quickly find and release quarantined items. Often times you’ll find yourself waiting for a few minutes only to realise it’s not doing anything. Then you have to refresh the page and re-enter your search criteria. The fact you can’t even wildcard searches is also unforgivable (it’s 2016 Microsoft, why can we not wildcard search the subject and sender fields?!)

This annoyance coupled with my eagerness to play with PowerShell led me to develop a quick and dirty quarantine tool or viewer if you like. The tool is quite basic but it will let you do the following:

  • Wildcard search the subject and sender fields
  • Configure the number of results to return
  • Release a message based on message ID

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If you want to have a play with the tool, it’s on my GitHub along with the source code if you feel like suggesting some improvements.

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WSUS Range Headers and Palo Alto Best Practices

It seems Windows Updates doesn’t play nice with Palo Alto best practices; specifically when it comes to range headers.

Palo Alto best practices state that you should block the HTTP range option for the following reason:

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Palo Alto RADIUS Authentication with Windows NPS

In this article I will go through the steps required to implement RADIUS authentication using Windows NPS (Network Policy Server) so that firewall administrators can log-on using domain credentials.

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Setting up a RTSP Relay with Live555 Proxy

In this brief how-to, I will show you how you can set up a RTSP relay/proxy server using the Live555 Proxy.

Essentially what the Live555 proxy server allows you to do is to connect to a backend video feed and relay it to your RTSP clients via unicast. The number of clients you can relay to depends on the hardware of your proxy server as well as the network. Bandwidth usage can easily be calculated by multiplying the backend feed in KB/s by the number of clients connected to your relay server.

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WordPress 4.4.1 Redirect Loop

You notice you receive one of the following errors whilst trying to browse to the home page of one of your WordPress sites after updating to 4.4.1:

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

This webpage has a redirect loop

This page isn’t redirecting properly

I saw this on one of the WordPress sites I manage for a local takeaway. The problem occurred after the update to 4.4.1 and had me stumped.

All other pages would load but not the static homepage. Changing the permalink structure to plain (post-id) fixed the problem but changing it back to postname made the problem reappear.

Interestingly, if I browsed http://homepage/index.php or http://homepage// (yes, a double slash) the home page would load up just fine. Weird. I’m sure a .htaccess rule would fix this but I didn’t delve in to this.

The solution?

Simple. Check your WordPress address and Site Address in Settings –> General.

Ensure they’re both lower cased and not mixed. Don’t ask me why or how this works because I have no idea.