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 al…

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…

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 envi…

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 …

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! P…

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-MSOLUs…

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…

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 E…

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…

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 Azur…

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) ○ …

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.{ED7BA47…

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 ArnoldC - Get to the Chopper - "Program with…

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 Patch review for October 2…

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 p…

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 S…

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 ign…

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 …

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 l…

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 …

Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day (at the time of recording at least)! Chicago PowerShell conference recap, KeePass vulnerability, M365 Basic Auth options, iCloud Drive gets roasted, WFH eating habits, Windows Patching heart-to-heart, and lots more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot up ○ Risky Linux Google Search: "killall man" …

M365 Endpoint DLP, ransomware and data breaches, Teams UI complaints, MS Inspire highlights, tips to remember a coworker's name, Teams Jerk Mode, PowerShell break/exit discussion, and that time Steve had to perform an email migration OUT of the cloud. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot up ○ Microsoft 365 Updated with New Securi…

DNS CVE, how to avoid being a jerk of a sysadmin, anecdotes of PowerShell in Teams and Exchange, HP ProCurve nostalgia, and other random topics. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot up (Random Topics) Teams notifications don’t adhere to Focus Assist Your DNS is showing, patch now Can be easily mitigated until patches can be appli…

Defender ATP web content filtering, HEVC codec security issues, critical F5 vulnerability, Newly announced Teams features, WTF is Docker Compose, Logic Apps, Windows Admin Center frustrations, PowerShell fixes, and more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot-Up (Random topics) ○ Web content filtering with Microsoft Defender ATP no…

Azure exams, MS Stores die, Mixer dies, OAuth authentication in Exchange Online, InTune On-Prem connector changes, Patch Tuesday printing issues, TikTok is a problem, Shodan, WWDC, and a new segment: THAT IS ACCURATE Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com Boot-Up (Random topics) HTH will be compatible with Apple Silicon on day 1 Servers…

It's been a minute!! Ms. Awesome and Niko Kma discuss America's response to the recent Covid-19 pandemic.#hopethishelpsبقلم Niko Kma

Windows Clipboard bugs, EXO cmdlets go GA, facial recognition, MFA, Zune stuff, JSON in Windows Terminal, Sarbanes Oxley Audits, and some AD permission tricks. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ *Apologies in advance, in this episode there may be minor audio desyncing* Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) Closet options The new Outlook se…

WinGet, Win10 2004, Teams Only Mode, MS Stream, PowerShell variety hour, PowerToys is awesome, Randomware and FSRM lecture, and rejected Azure product ideas. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) Thing we miss about physical offices Morning routines Microsoft's BIG Package.....Manager (aka WinGet) HEIC, m…

Governance of Teams meeting wallpaper, Exchange Online PowerShell connection timeouts, M365 sensitivity labels, VS Code updates, M365 reliability, Azure DevOps, Stream, and far more things than a synopsis can do justice. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) • Minecraft in the Enterprise ○ Correction: Mic…

Zune video conversion in 2020, Azure ARM templates, Kubernetes, Windows Terminal, Mozilla Firefox security, SMTP authentication, Exchange Online PowerShell Module v2 stuff, and more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) • Clarification about Docker, it is not owned by Microsoft (yet?), they are just in a…

MFA (again), PowerShell folding@home support, using a Zune 80 without a working screen, Minecraft on Raspberry Pi, probing your network with TCPDump, Teams (again??), and firewalling with iptables. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:17 • Combined MFA and Password Reset Registration Now Available: ht…

MFA and PowerShell, MSOL goes down, Microsoft Graph in PowerShell, COBOL sysadmins are in demand, Raspberry Pi stuff, Teams (again! I know!), and a whole lot more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:18 • Correction: The Ascension happens on the 40th day of Easter, not the 12th. • Join Team SNHU (ID …

COVID changes the tech world, macOS Catalina is awful, Zoom has miserable security issues, O365 is now M365, Teams updates (again), and a whole lot more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:18 • WFH killed Steve's router, got a new one (NetGear r7800 with DD-WRT custom firmware) • Wear a green shirt …

iPad tries to catch up to Surface, Adobe security flaws, Azure can't handle COVID, HTH gets a website, PowerShell modules, remote meeting madness, and the worst places to have a server closet. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Producer: Jen Abis Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:18 Folding @ Home Reminder: By downloading Folding@ho…

Bill Gates is gone from MS, Folding@Home, blocking external email forwarding, SMBv3, working from home, and Power Automate isn't Power AutoGreat. Also Raspberry Pi things. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:16 • Bye Bye Bill: https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/13/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-bo…

PowerShell 7 is out, we love Out-GridView, Microsoft DNS had a gaping security hole, Exchange Online PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and a whole lot more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:16 • Raccoons and wildlife • Various podcast housekeeping items • Facebook, Twitter, Bathroom Magazines • Ways to…

GitHub Desktop isn't multi-user, Cortana is being slowly dismantled, Microsoft certifications are changing, Basic Auth extravaganza, new Teams features, PowerShell advanced functions, and SCCM for dummies. #teamGIF Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:18 • DNS over HTTPS live in Firefox: https://blog.…

We talk about Defender ATP's expansion, Exchange retention policies, O365 licensing and compromised accounts, O365 Exchange recipient limits, and more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:12 • Ring 2FA: https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/18/ring-requires-two-factor-authentication/ • Microsoft is bringi…

Update on the "Bing in Chrome" controversy, Yammer is still a thing, Phillips Hue patching, Teams growing pains, Windows 10's start menu bites the big one, Apple grievances, PowerShell learning, and more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:15 • Some guy thinks Steve's Gmail is his and orders things …

HTH talks about old hardware preservation, crazy ways to get MBOX to O365, Windows patching, The IT Deep State (Bing), and more Pentium 4 fun with Linux. Boston accents as well. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) :15 • Boston accents • Shoutout to iTunes and their Podcast directory glitch https://twitt…

All about Outlook PSTs, PowerShell functions, Bing encroaching on other browsers, Windows Clipboard, GitHub, and things Microsoft will kill soon. Other things too. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Steve wrote a function to get item counts in PSTs 2:25 • Started with an unsatisfying script found online • New script can drill into …

We honor the newly dead Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, teach you some PowerShell, hate on MyAnalytics, discuss the IT Deep State (Zune), and more. Taco Bell mobile ordering could be better. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Pre-Show 00:15 • Taco Bell Mobile Ordering is terrible • Special guest this week: Cat Intro 04:36 • RIP WINDO…

iOS, Linux on Pentium 4 systems, and a good replacement for the Logitech G700s mouse. Random tech news as well. We are honestly just as surprised as you that we got to episode 2. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Pre-Show - 00:00 • PowerShell/Command Prompt/scripting vs the GUI • 02:03 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Intro - 02:56…

We talk SCCM, Hyper-V homelabs, Exchange, Linux, and more. Also ASMR. Welcome to Hope This Helps. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Intro 00:00 - 07:58 • 00:00 Welcome • 04:36 ASMR • 06:15 Welcome to Hope this helps, a podcast about fighting injustice and indifference. ○ But we don't actually really care • 06:27 0 Subscriber miles…

Ms. Awesome and Niko Kma sit down with Trap Baby Bro and Trap Baby Wopp to discuss the grind and hustle, street code and politics, as well as beef among Dallas Artists, Mo3 and Yella Beezy.#hopethishelpsبقلم Niko Kma

In this episode of Hope this helps, Gary!! Ms. Awesome and Niko Kma sit down with Komedian KG, The Truth!! and Mike Brown founder of Ocean Grown Outfitters. They enjoy laughs, drinks and discuss some upcoming events.#hopethishelpsبقلم Niko Kma