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BLE POC Tracking System – Implementation Notes – Creating System Files and Flashing

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February 1, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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BLE Tracking System – Implementation Notes – Programming the NRF51822

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January 25, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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BlueTooth Low Energy POC Tracking System – Project Timeline

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January 18, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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BlueTooth Low Energy POC Tracking System – Project Poster

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January 11, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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BlueTooth Low Energy POC Tracking System – Literature Review

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January 4, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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Microsoft Teams – To view or edit this plan, including any task in it, ask any member to add you to the Members list of this plan

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December 8, 2021

Well that heading was quite a mouth full. I came across the issue below earlier today when adding a plan to Teams, this seems to be an issue primarily for Teams/site owners. The issue presents as in the image below when a user navigates to a Planner instance that they…
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Exchange – Cannot Delete Mailbox, Access is Denied

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November 29, 2021

Came across an interesting issue whereby I was unable to delete certain mailboxes even though I’d verified all the normal access. The error being produced was as below – Active Directory operation failed on SVRGL1191.gloscc.gov.uk. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied. Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr:…
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PowerShell – How to Check if String Contains Any Value in Array

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November 4, 2021

Very short post today, the PowerShell script below is simply a function that will take a string such as “Red fox jumping over fences” and will compare it to an array of values to see if it contains any of them. and finally, the output –
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PowerShell – How to Report on NTFS File Inheritance & Permissions

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October 21, 2021

The script below was taken from https://www.lepide.com/how-to/get-an-ntfs-permissions-report-using-powershell.html The script takes a directory path to search from, it will then get a list of all subdirectories, loop through each of them then generate a nice grid view report of all permissions in subdirectories and whether they are inherited. This should generate…
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PowerShell – Getting all Users in Domain Users Group – 5000+ Users

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October 13, 2021

I recently needed to generate a report of all Domain Users which brought up a few interesting issues, the first is that members aren’t actually listed as members of the group which removes the ability to use a lot of the standard PowerShell commands to produce a report on it,…
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