{"id":6415,"date":"2016-07-22T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:51:31","slug":"short-takes-pairing-headphones-firewalls-exchange-smtp-communications-tethered-photos-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/short-takes-pairing-headphones-firewalls-exchange-smtp-communications-tethered-photos-mac.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: pairing my headphones, firewalls and Exchange SMTP communications, tethered photos with a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more snippets that don&#8217;t quite make a blog post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because I always forget how to do this:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/uk\/support\/kb\/detail.jsp?vfurl=\/articles\/en_US\/How_To\/BackBeat-Pro-How-to-Pair&amp;c=All&amp;lang=en_gb&amp;region=gb\">how to pair a\u00a0Plantronics\u00a0BackBeat PRO headset with a\u00a0mobile device<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And a little tip whilst troubleshooting connectivity to an Exchange Server server for hybrid connectivity with Office 365&#8230; if <code>telnet ipaddress 25<\/code> gives a banner response from the SMTP server then that&#8217;s a good thing\u00a0&#8211; if the firewall is interrupting transmission then I&#8217;ll get nothing back, or asterisks ********. Joe Palarchio (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoePalarchio\">@JoePalarchio<\/a>) writes about this (see issue 7) in his post on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.perficient.com\/microsoft\/2015\/02\/office-365-common-exchange-online-hybrid-mail-flow-issues\/\">Common Exchange Online Hybrid Mail Flow Issue<\/a>s. Note that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/exchange\/2013\/02\/18\/exchange-firewalls-and-support-oh-my\/\">firewalls doing any form of blocking between Exchange servers are unsupported<\/a>\u00a0but that doesn&#8217;t stop customers from putting them between their email servers and anything running in the cloud (e.g. Hybrid server in Azure). \u00a0If you need to do this, then you should have any ANY\/ANY rule (i.e. allow free flow of traffic) between the Exchange Server servers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/osx-image-capture-take-picture.png?resize=456%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Take photos with OS X Image Capture\" width=\"456\" height=\"376\" \/>Finally, back in 2009, I \u00a0wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/shooting-tethered-on-my-nikon-d700-using-powershell.htm\">tethering a DLSR to a computer and taking pictures using Windows PowerShell<\/a>\u00a0(I think I&#8217;ve also written about using software to do this). Well, it turns out that the OS X Image Capture utility can also take a photo on a supported camera &#8211; either on a timed basis or by pressing a key.\u00a0 Could be useful to know if setting up a time-lapse, or for studio work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more snippets that don&#8217;t quite make a blog post&#8230; Because I always forget how to do this:\u00a0how to pair a\u00a0Plantronics\u00a0BackBeat PRO headset with a\u00a0mobile device. And a little tip whilst troubleshooting connectivity to an Exchange Server server for hybrid connectivity with Office 365&#8230; if telnet ipaddress 25 gives a banner response from the SMTP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/short-takes-pairing-headphones-firewalls-exchange-smtp-communications-tethered-photos-mac.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short takes: pairing my headphones, firewalls and Exchange SMTP communications, tethered photos with a Mac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[35,115,228,46,580],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac-os-x","tag-bluetooth","tag-email","tag-exchange","tag-plantronics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Short takes: pairing my headphones, firewalls and Exchange SMTP communications, tethered photos with a Mac - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A few snippets that don&#039;t quite make a whole blog post: pairing Plantronics backbeat headphones; 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