HTH0025 - Do The Roll-Up

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

○ Google contract extended

○ CORRECTION: Thunderbird isn't exactly a community-only project. Some things have also changed, Thunderbird was transferred to MZLA Technologies Corporation from the Mozilla Foundation.

○ CORRECTION/MINI THAT IS ACCURATE: Gmail Launched 4/1/2004.

○ August Patch Tuesday plop

○ Circle the wagons: CVE-2020-1472 | Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability…especially bad if you have 2008 R2 as a DC. Extended support needed for the patch, otherwise you need to mitigate.

○ "It’s rare to see a Critical-rated elevation of privilege bug, but this one deserves it," said ZDI’S Dustin Childs. "What’s worse is that there is not a full fix available."

○ Win10 2004 no longer searches online for Drivers by default

○ Server 2012 update checking/service being bonkers lately

○ Bye-E11 - M365 no longer supports IE 8/17/21 HOPE YOU'RE READY!

○ Will MS have ported over IE-exclusive SharePoint features (WebDAV "Open in File Explorer" links?)

○ Teams in the browser / Teams rant

○ Inconsistent/buggy notifications in Firefox

○ Photos not showing - UserVoice

○ Tiff returns to the land of Macs.

○ macOS Catalina didn't learn from Vista

Exchange errors: Real or Fake?

○ Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.UnsupportedBrowser

○ Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.OverBudgetException

○ Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.OutOfMoneyException

○ Exchange 2019 System Requirements

Declassified Sysadmin Stories: Pocket Exchange

○ That time Steve built a portable Exchange 2010 server

○ Purpose: Teach people Outlook in a pre-cloud era at onsite trainings

○ Dell Latitude D630 running 2008 R2…4GB(?) RAM Core 2 Duo

○ (A later version was a newer Precision M4700 laptop and/or Thinkpad X201 running 2012 R2)

○ Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM running Exchange 2010

○ Exchange built according to a guide

○ Pre populate AD, users/mailboxes, and make fake sample content (e-mail, calendar events, etc) built to a Microsoft guideline

○ Server connected to a router, classroom laptops connect wirelessly (no internet access), static DNS manually set on laptops to point to router

○ Outlook configured on each laptop for a specific user

○ OOO wouldn’t work without massaging DNS/autodiscover, which needed manual fixing after restoring the snapshot every time (delete and re-add the autodiscover A record in DNS then bounce the DNS services)

○ A brief discussion on SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

That Is Accurate

○ The Netscape ISP home page is still up.

○ Various internet nostalgia

Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week

○ What was the worst password you ever created

○ What was your first password? ;)

○ Various computer nostalgia

Outro - "Plus Delta"

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