Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast
Tiff and Steve’s magical sysadmin adventures. You can expect fun banter about “the cloud,” Microsoft tech (Office 365, Azure, Defender, Exchange, etc), InfoSec, PowerShell, Docker, Zune (yes, Zune), existential thoughts on enterprise IT, and so much more.
Episodes
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 happene...
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 ...
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 Manag...
The Apple Event, Windows 11 features, Defender for Endpoint updates, Docker, Terraform, and fingers!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Note: Our apologies for wavering audio quality, we had some technical difficulties again!
The Fork-Up
-Don't Fork your Parent
-Finger
Boot-up
-Apple Creates the World's Best Computer...of 2009? New Macbo...
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
Micros...
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 disappointe...
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
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Microsoft service disruptions, Exchange Plus Addressing, UserVoice, Ignite 2021 Recap, Defender for Endpoint, Zune, Outlook Signatures, and more!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
What even are NFTs, anyway? Nobody knows.
Blog post about PSWindowsUpdate and Outlook Categories
Outages + Microsoft lying about service issues
&nbs...
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 (KB460139...
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 I...
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 a...
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
&nbs...
Long-winded rants about cybersecurity, Teams Updates, Google Play Music, and the future of IT. Other stuff too!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
How are you?
Linode and OpenVPN connection attempts
Youtube-DL RIAA DMCA
YouTube Rolling Cypher
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
...iPhone Event feelings, Microsoft 365 Outage feelings, Help Desk feelings, Therapy feelings, M365 Audit feelings…all kinds of feelings!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
iPhone event
RIP Office 2010 and Exchange 2010 - Tombstone
Brief eulogy
Microsoft 365 won't support TLS 1.0 as of October 15 2020
...
Outages, Microsoft Ignite reactions and feelings, Excel Vlookup is cool, a story about wifi, a new "That is Accurate," and Question of the Week!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
• SLACK OUTAGE
• M365 outage
○ MO222965 - What is the point of posting this to a portal nobody can get to?
○ Root Cause Analysis posted
• Ignite post-game show
○ Thoughts overall
○ NO SWAG!
○ Also the Vmware ...
Microsoft Ignite 2020 hype! iOS 14 Mail changes, software KVMs, Zerologon exploits, SSU/LCU follow-ups, Teams/Exchange Online Issues, stories about imaging computers, and a variety of other topics!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
• #MSIgnite 2020!
• Steve hates sticky monitor edges
○ NSFW: Arm workout: The Denny's Grand Slam
• Software KVMs: Synergy versus Input Director versus Mouse Withou...
Ignored Windows bugs, Apple vs Epic, updates and incidents across the Microsoft ecosystem, and Microsoft 365 E3 trials.
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot Up
It's conference season! Register for VMWorld/Ignite/anything! They're all online!
A modest list of bugs in Windows 10 that Steve submitted in the Feedback Hub that got ignored/no upvotes
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Teams August updates, EXOL external forwarding changes, Patch survey results, M365 E5/A5 licensing, SYDI, separating work data from personal data, squeaky lobster, and more!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
We had a few audio glitches, apologies for the quality variance.
Boot Up
Ever want to feel better about your day? IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal cha...
August Patch Tuesday review, Mozilla problems, Server 2012 Update issues/fixes, IE11 EoL, Teams bugs, Portable Exchange Servers, and a bevy of other topics!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com
Boot up
○ Post-mortem on why HTH0024 was a bit shorter than other episodes (YouTube Music)
○ Dark clouds at Mozilla
○ Threat management team laid off
○ Mozilla to refocus on its own commercial products
○ Googl...
Windows Admin Center corrections, Win7 being actively exploited, Robocopy is amazing, ITSM/ITIL escalation tips and tricks for Tier 1/2/3, and more!
Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/shownotes/HTH0024.html
Boot up
WAC Corrections from HTH0020:
You can successfully add a group to the local administrators now it seems. When adding a user, enter the group ...
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