Accessing the Department of Education Listserv

The DOE runs a listserv server for mailing list management. Here are some notes on how to subscribe to their lists. Specifically the FSATECH mailing list. Send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ED.GOV with the listserv commands: LIST - Lists (some of the) available lists on the server SUBSCRIBE FSATECH - Subscribe to the Federal Student Aid Tech list

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Setting Up SMTP Forwarding Via PowerShell on Office 365

These are the commands needed to set up SMTP forwarding for an email address in Office 365 using PowerShell. $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking Set-Mailbox -ForwardingSmtpAddress "" -Identity "" Remove-PSSession $Session

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Installing Nignx as a Service on Windows

Setting up Nginx on Windows is a straightforward endeavor. Unfortunately the information on how to do it end to end is not exactly in one spot, but actually sprinkled throughout the internet. So here we go, let’s put it all together. Installing Nginx Download the binary from the Nginx website. This is what the website looks like today and the latest version is 1.

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No More Cookies

As of today we no longer use cookies on this site. In the past we used cookies to support some telemetry and visit statistics. As it turns out, I didn’t really look at that data and so I’ve decided to remove both GA and AI tracking scripts.

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Enabling SSH Access on the IX4-300D NAS

The IX4-300D NAS device can be configured for SSH access by following these steps: Log in using the administrator account Navigate to the Diagnostics screen: [http://ix4-300d/manage/diagnostics.html][1] Select Support Access -> Allow remote access for support Enter the root password twice and click apply Now you will be able SSH into the NAS, using the root user, and with the password you entered, prepended by soho.

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