HTH0009 - We Went to BurgerTown Today

Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

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 remove blue light from your life

• PowerShell 7 is officially out: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/what-s-new-in-powershell-70?view=powershell-7

• Out-GridView is the best

• You can now update your user info, change your password, and more in the authenticator app https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/update-to-the-microsoft-authenticator-app-now-rolling-out/ba-p/1169863

• The Coronation ceremony: Microsoft Teams Giving Away Paid Features for Six Months Due to Coronavirus https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/231376/microsoft-teams-giving-away-paid-features-for-six-months-due-to-coronavirus

• Wash your hands, work from home, be sensible about COVID-19 please! PPE!

• Free Microsoft domains (patched now): https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/researchers-find-670+-microsoft-subdomains-vulnerable-to-takeover/d/d-id/1337246?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple • Writing documentation: Mostly screenshots or purely text?

• VSCode ISE Experience: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/visual-studio-code-for-powershell-7/

• Copying and pasting code from ISE/the internet is dangerous due to quotes/character encoding

Exchange Online PowerShell Module V2 (EXOPMv2) 28:20

• FOLLOW-UP FROM LAST WEEK: Connect-ExchangeOnline DOES support prefixing, there is a command switch. It was just not documented on the official page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/powershell-v2-module/connect-exchangeonline?view=exchange-ps • However, note that the new get-EXO commands are NOT prefixed, regardless.

• Doesn't work in PowerShell 6 or 7, only 5.1 and below: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/faster-and-more-reliable-exchange-online-management-using/ba-p/1198604

• https://www.petri.com/exchange-online-powershell-goes-restful

Help needs Help 38:10

• https://old.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/fcjkip/multiple_years_of_microsofts_broken_powershell/

• Correct syntax: "powershell Update-Help -Verbose -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue"

Graph: Where do I draw the line? 39:40

• Graph PowerShell SDK Preview: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-powershell/tree/dev/samples

Variety Hour 42:20

• Unsecured LDAP calls

• The Basic Authpocalypse: MFA/Modern Auth/End of Basic Auth = no more Office 2010 or ActiveSync for you

• ActiveSync on Palm OS, it was a thing once: https://kb.iu.edu/d/atjx

• Microsoft Endpoint Manager and SCCM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Bc2_eJozM

• If you have Intune licensing, you have SCCM licensing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/fundamentals/licenses

An update on Steve's Pentium 4 Linux adventures 49:26

• Swapped to Peppermint OS for one system with the dual monitor bug

• Raspberry Pi NAS project starting soon

More Variety Hour 56:18

• Yu-Gi-Oh

• Anime

• 90s Nickelodeon

• Rumble Pak

• Forwarding topic being deferred to HTH0010

Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week 01:03:12 • Do you have any funny "war stories" from jobs' past?

Outro - "Plus Delta" 01:07:10