HTH0003 - State of the Zunion

Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

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 WINDOWS 7 and Server 2008 R2 – Oregon Trail dying music

○ Oct. 22 2009 – January 14, 2020

• Vulnerability from the NSA - CVE-2020-0601

○ https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF

○ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-of-first-2020-patch-tuesday/

○ Is it actually that big of a deal? Conflicting points of view

Steve does PowerShell 13:50

• Let’s talk about foreach loops

○ Two main ways to call foreach in PowerShell

○ $Psitem and $_

○ Serialization and minor changes between Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2016 regarding value output

MyAnalytics the most annoying piece of Microsoft Trash yet. 22:25

• What is MyAnalytics?

• On by default in O365 with a few minor exceptions

• Not great for GDPR or privacy

• How to disable it

• Other mildly related MS ethical/privacy blunders: Teams enabled read receipts by default

“Unplanned Outage” (Sponsor section - "Hope this Helps is helped by…") 30:00

• Please Advise

○ If someone needs help, please advise

○ If you want help, "please advise"

○ But be sure to never please advice

○ Start now with offer code advise to receive your first advice free

The IT DEEP STATE 33:33

• State of the Zune in 2020 (State of the Zunion)

• Microsoft is outsourcing Cortana and Skype audio to China

○ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/10/skype-audio-graded-by-workers-in-china-with-no-security-measures

• Apple is scanning iCloud Photos for abuse

• Windows 10 ignores certain names in the hosts file (not quite new news)

○ https://www.petri.com/windows-10-ignoring-hosts-file-specific-name-resolution

Ask the Stiffs? Question of the week! 43:47

Outro - "Plus Delta” 44:14

• What dnd character are you on your team?

• Parting words follow up?

○ Make a sentence using only autocorrect

• Podcast is available on all major platforms now

• Reddit/Twitter/etc all coming soon.

• From all of us here, "We hope this helps!"