The STiffs return to podcasting after a very long week. The cloud has changed, Loop still isn't a thing, Viva and Entra are around, and Linux Mint vs Windows 11! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot-up (AKA, "LAST WEEK, ON HOPE THIS HELPS") It would be fun to do a "since we've been gone" run through of a high level overview of all of the things in tech that have happened… Some things have changed, while others have stayed the same Microsoft Teams External Access Flaw Poses a Malware Risk Phishing emails Red Hat in the hot seat Jeff Geerling: I'm done with Red Hat (En ..read more

Error messages, meeting etiquette, MFA improvements and concerns, PowerShell with MS Graph, PowerShell Crescendo, random PowerShell things, in a short-but-packed episode! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com =====Boot-up===== BSoDs and error messages Phrases I don't wanna hear anymore: "Thank you for your time." Microsoft Teams - Send praise to people Better meeting etiquette The stigma against accepting a meeting as "tentative" Accepting and not sending a response Shower thought: There should be a "Mute Mic AND Turn Webcam Off" button in Teams Parasocial relationships Real-time ..read more

Microsoft Ignite 2021 hot takes! Multi-Cloud MultiBall, Loop, Teams, Viva, PowerShell install variations, and Zune on macOS! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com ===Boot-up=== We help this hopes ===Microsoft Ignite 21H2=== Defender madness - so many confusing name changes! Multi-Cloud MultiBall "Now, native support for multicloud environments is available through the extension of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection capabilities to Amazon Web Services (AWS)."…Do other clouds actually want Microsoft to butt in? Actual quote from someone (Mary Jo ..read more

Microsoft Exams, Passwordless login, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft 365 landmines, and more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Note: Our apologies for wavering audio quality, we had some technical difficulties! Boot-up     Delilah     Human Robots + Cyborgs     Remember on-premise? There's a cert for that     Microsoft exams are hard!     Passwordless login     New identity partnerships and integrations to accelerate your Zero Trust journey   ..read more

Outlook Web Access, Scrum, Windows Admin Center complaints, Defender for Endpoint complaints, and the world of InfoSec, among other things! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot-up     OWA Suggested Pre-reads on meeting reminders, interesting idea     Not mad, just disappointed: Cloud shell kinda sucks, I'm complaining about it     Set-MSOLUserLicense is going away     The importance of learning program ..read more

Windows 11 is a thing, Solarwinds is still a thing, Zune is still a thing, PowerBI regional migrations, and Windows 10 learns a new trick. Hope This Helps is back! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Pre-Boot     Windows 11 and the TPM     Golf is boring, unless it's mini-golf     LinkedIn is like the golf course of the internet Boot Up     Tiff and Steve's desktop computers, Macs     Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake     Solarwinds hacks + version number madn ..read more

Yammer and Defender for Endpoint Rants in a quick Midlife Crisis episode of Hope This Helps! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot Up MS Ignite Part 2 Look up CVEs faster with MsrcSecurityUpdates PowerShell Module https://aventistech.com/kb/get-latest-cve-from-msrc-with-powershell/ February patches were bad KB4601392 bad Microsoft said that the erroneous  servicing-stack update (KB4601392) froze installations for the  “Cumulative Update” from the recent Windows Update. This resulted in the  installation for the update halting at 24 percent. KB5001078 good Hear ..read more

Cloud service talk, modern workplace thoughts, DevOps versus ITIL, Docker Container of the Week, and a bunch more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot Up     [Semi-off topic variety section] What kind of alcoholic beverage is each cloud service?     Azure=Tequila, the more you drink it, the more things change     The VibrationSensorHub Azure IoT lab     Zune Squirting - 3 Plays or 3 Days     Pronouncing Azure     WarHammer / Your state of being at work ..read more

HTH Turns 1 year old! We catch up on cloud happenings, productivity score ethical debates, bad naming schemes, Solarwinds, M365 deathwatch, and more! Extended Show Notes available at https://hthpc.com ===Boot Up=== • HTH Turns 1 year old • M365 email forwarding dashboards aren't great • Productivity Score - Remember the human (stop being creepy) ○ Microsoft says no to Productivity Score for individual users ○ Concerns remain about Microsoft Teams employee analytics ○ Microsoft responded to the criticisms by anonymizing the data, and making other changes, but the truth is that the data is stil ..read more

Control Panel is going away, SMS based MFA is bad, Project Management is good, SCCM/MEMCM payload tips, MS product name frustrations, and more! Extended Show Notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot Up     How are you?     Life Cereal     Giving up Control (Control Panel going away)         Alternate UWP Control Panel         GodMode: Make a new folder named GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}     Administrative Tools ..read more