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Looks like you removed the //comment tags - they’re a red herring! I’m away from it now, so hoping to not dwell on it too long in my head! Thinking about it though, even though the page runs the Oauth2 code first (and redirects to M365 to do so), the header is not conditional - it’ll run whatever the outcome. This’d be okay for testing, except that it seems to follow the header first! I’m going to bundle it inside an if to catch it: $userbind = file_get_contents(bindcheckingpage’.$username.’) if($userbind == true) { header(Location:”mypage.php”); } Something like that anyway. I could even check that it’s not null or ‘’, because the page redirected to does a check for the $_SESSION variables, and I don’t think it’ll be possible to send it the username parameter without using the Oauth2 login.

Hi all, Productive day testing Oauth2 with our internal applications. After struggling for hours before realising we had a URL rewrite rule breaking my implementation, I have a small bug that's hindering me progressing with this job. My end goal is to move all of our internal web apps to Oauth2 via M365. My auth page, that is the redirect from Azure, contains this code: // Proceed - The user exists and is bound. $_SESSION['uid'] = $user; $_SESSION['username'] = $user; echo "\nClick here to test"; //header('Location: https://public_facing_server/page_that_needs_auth.php'); If I implement the code as shown, which needs a click on the link, it passes the $_SESSION variables and the page logs on fine. If I change that to the commented out line, using header to transfer automatically to that page, it doesn't work as it seems to not pass on the $_SESSION variables. Any ideas? This is going to be silly and simple, but it's been a long day at this!

1. They alter the SIMS.ini and connect.ini - SIMS installed on the TPC then just runs through the VPN. No issues with CommandReporter - I run it all the time. Much quicker than the RDP client. They'll install that instance of SIMS if needed. 2. In the SIMS ID preferences is this: I haven't tried to use this for actual auth - I don't think it does allow external auth at all - which is crazy but predictable. We went from SSO with onsite to separate logins!

I should also mention the 90 day enforced password change, which IME then breaks and locks the user out, and the password reset doesn’t work as it asks random security questions which the user didn’t set. My users are starting to hit the 90 day mark. I have a second admin account to get myself back in.

From what I remember, the infrastructure is mostly based on some old bits of bacon held together with wire coathangers, with some 5400rpm drives gruesomely shoved into the mess. Running Server 2012 R2. It’s not fast, especially after a holiday.

Anything getting in the way of the traffic? That should definitely connect straight through - and very quickly (takes much longer to connect to the onsite server!) How's your whitelisting for M365?

The wizard *should* update itself when run (mine did yesterday!)

Do you need it? I just have the two in separate tabs, opened independently.

Briefly had Landsails on the front of the TT, as they were what came on some wheels I bought. They were hilarious, in that low speed roundabouts were just understeer and hope. I would fit them to a city car but nothing bigger - it’s all subjective though. Putting Michelin Pilot Sport 5s on an Aygo is usually overkill, on the other hand!

Many people will say there is no difference. They tend to be careful, cautious drivers that haven’t had to put them fully to the test. Having had a variety of budgets, some on more powerful cars, I won’t buy them any more. Wet grip is often very poor IME, with the no-brand stuff. Mid range can often yield some decent results. I like the Avon/Coopers on three of my cars. Bridgestone on another, much more expensive but size can change availability. You won’t go wrong with most of the premium brands. There are a few factors that matter, then. Wear rate can be greater with cheap tyres, or wet grip may be well down, or they may be noisy. If you pootle and potter around, they might be okay for you. If you press on in all weathers, you might scare yourself silly.

Some interesting points. I’d thought about moving all MX records to point at 365 instead of onsite, so that mail flow is independent of our onsite server (which I keep for management, relay, and a couple of onsite mailboxes) Is it really that simple, despite MS advising to keep the onsite server in the mail flow? It’d be nice to not need commercial certs for it too - I did use LE for a while but due to the 3 month expiry and me not being able to get automation to work properly, it was a mare.

Looking at the roadmap, I just can’t believe that they’ve no plan in the next year to even support SQL 2019. I mean - that’s an old product now. 2016 is ancient - SQL 2012 is out of support (non ESU) and yet that’s the compatibility level. I’d not want to be putting too much time investment into a new SQL 2016 install - personally I’d be using a newer version and setting the compatibility down. Supported or not. Did so with Eclipse and it just works.

Yeah I never had a problem with that - 52 week contract, far more than minimum PTO, so I have to book school holidays as holidays if I want them off. I could let myself in and work on Christmas Day, if I somehow felt inclined!

Depends on your coding abilities! You'd probably need to deep dive into the driver DLL. The issues with a modern Windows OS seem to come with getting that driver signed once it's built, as a one man band. There is very little info online about achieving it, especially on Windows, and doubly on anything above XP (with a parallel port). The actual driver code probably isn't miles off working, even on x64, but you'd really need to do this stuff day-in day-out.

Not inset, no. Not sure where the extra days in this school year will be here - though 24th July is down as inset currently.

Guessing it won’t in-place upgrade?

I can’t quite picture the issue you’re having, but I had to play some games with one of our hosts when I upgraded it from 2012 R2 to 2019 as I had to delete the NIC team before the upgrade. That affected the vswitch. There was no special config or VLANs, but it was still a pain and getting traffic to pass properly again took a while. What I’ll say is that it was massively, massively easier to fix connected locally. Don’t try to do this sort of thing locally unless you have iLO/iDRAC or are incredibly lucky! Hope it goes okay today.

It’s a perfectly legitimate question, but we also have to be cautious as a lot of devices went ‘missing’ during COVID. With many of these UEFI devices, if you don’t have the password or a manufacturer tool (usually software) to remove or bypass them, they’re a brick.

Ask the supplying school. If they’re anything like us, they’d appreciate having it back thankyouverymuch.

Hot, power hungry switches in overly sealed cabinets - hole saw and a PC fan grille siliconed on the inside. Lenovo E145 - hinges were secured by a nut pressed into the plastic that snapped off, leaving the case flapping at the hinge. Drilled through and bolted. VMWare ESXI backups done with GhettoVCB - scriptable and meant I didn't have to pay for VEEAM. Dying ADCs on BenQ monitors (so VGA input fails) - Displayport to DVI converters en-masse. Built a server rack from a solid old fashioned school table years back. Still using it with a big UPS installed inside - it's very strong! 2016 version of Eclipse.net running on a modern server and within Edge using IE mode - right hash up that is! Migrated Successmaker between servers by dumping every file (including DLLs) and registry entry until it started working (no install media, but active license). Long since retired that! Secured Lenovo M58 cases (no screw threads) by winding a fan screw into the Kensington lock (still working to this day!) ...there'll be more. I'm a bodger.

Much of Wales is tomorrow (Wednesday). Full working day. We're off until the 9th though.

Block the GPO inheritance for those policies until you can get it activated and working.

I’ve been told our site needs ‘freshening up’. I designed and built it on Joomla, and have maintained it over the course of nearly 15 years (with re-designs and themes built over the years). It works really well, but isn’t jazzy enough it seems. I made it clear that it is the very best I can do (with the flexibility and power that comes with Joomla) so I’ve said they’re welcome to find me a school website they like more, and I’ll contact the builder. I don’t have the skills to match a pro. This would obviously come at significant cost. Silence since. I do wonder how important it is for the school website to be a image-heavy modern scrollathon in parental engagement and pupil numbers.

World's hardest Mantis Shrimp.

That does sound pretty rough! One of the main issues we had was that we went from lovely CS6, which still works but is old hat, to CC which wouldn’t install on 90% of our PCs due to their age (we are dominated by Core 2s still [emoji4]). Thankfully we have a suite of 10th gen Core machines now and another on the way, so Animate works fine there. Deciphering a predecessor’s work can be tough - I was lucky as I started as the junior tech and moved up, with 18 months of crossover. Still took a long time to be really familiar with everything.