HTH0025 - Do The Roll-Up

What this episode covers

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" We help you, you help us: Rate us on iTunes

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