HTH0006 - Don't Put The Egg Back In The Chicken

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 on costco.com

• Steve gets the receipts and notifications.

• Patch your Philips Hue

• https://www.darkreading.com/iot/researchers-reveal-how-smart-lightbulbs-can-be-hacked-to-attack/d/d-id/1336993

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6007

• Bug in the Zigbee protocol via the Philips Hue Bridge

• Microsoft caves on Bing in Chrome: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/update-to-microsoft-search-in-bing-through-office-365-proplus/ba-p/1161030

• Tiff got into a Twitter “argument” with Tony Redmond

• You can now Yammer via OWA (Yammer still exists?)

• Teams multi channel posting and OWA integration

• Teams growing pains

• Teams Outage – Forgotten renewed cert https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1224336575036870656

• O365 portal outage https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f3b6qz/365_admin_portal_down/

The Windows 10 Start Menu Search breaks 19:18

• https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ez92x0/windows_10_no_results_in_search_window/

• https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1225095567153352704?s=20

• Reg fix available, no reboot needed in most cases

If Steve could reinvent Apple 23:25

• Put touch screens on Macbooks

• Combine iOS and macOS hardware/software. Like macOS Catalyst but expanded

• https://daringfireball.net/2020/02/my_2019_apple_report_card (See the iPad section)

• Get rid of the Touch Bar

• Stop dumbing down macOS, look back to Snow Leopard and go from there

• Get away from bad subscription models or combine them all into one

• Make iCloud a top tier cloud provider instead of the toy that it currently is

• Get back to making hardware that isn't flavor-of-the-week/artsy junk

Steve does PowerShell 41:13

• Error handling and null checks for cmdlets that do not properly react to try/catch

• O365 command throttling workarounds

• Microsoft Flow (Power Automate)

Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week 53:30

• Things you do when your coworker's computer is unlocked

• David Hasselhoff - The "Hoff"

Outro - "Plus Delta” 57:00

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