HTH0026 - Happy Monday On A Tuesday

Teams August updates, EXOL external forwarding changes, Patch survey results, M365 E5/A5 licensing, SYDI, separating work data from personal data, squeaky lobster, and more! Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com We had a few audio glitches, apologies for the quality variance. Boot Up     Ever want to feel better about your day? IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Microsoft Teams deployment     The name "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". It was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987.     Original goal: remove one user from the retention policy     What actually happened: "In the execution of this change, a human error was made and the policy was applied to the entire KPMG Teams deployment instead of the specific account"     Patch survey results     RE: Wine/Running Windows applications/games on non-Windows: Valve's Wine implementation on Linux is called Proton     Teams August Updates Forward March     M365 External Email Forwarding changes     Basically a follow-up HTH0010 and this     Transport rule vs. anti-spam policies     We are also moving to disable external forwarding by default so organizations are secure by default. The World of E5     So many new changes to the Security and Compliance Center     Defender for Android (it's also coming to iOS)     Best Practices We Built this SYDI on Rock and Rollllll     Use SYDI to document servers     GitHub page     Usage:     cscript.exe 'C:\sydi\sydi-server-2.4\sydi-server.vbs'     <At the prompt, Enter the server name (FQDN) you want to grab documentation on>     Also honorable mention to the AD Topology Diagrammer Separating work from twerk     Keeping work from personal endpoints     When it's okay to use a personal machine     Cloud-based stuff     Non-VPN resources     Keep internal network/on-prem to work-issued hardware     If using a personal system: Don't download; Use web portals when able!     The OneDrive debacle (syncing things to non-work systems)     When does your personal system become a work asset? That Is Accurate     Squeaky lobster is the name of a toy lobster in an MS Exchange love story, and would forever change MS influence MS product development. Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week     What is something you suck at as a sysadmin?     Steve's perpetually bad at subnetting     Tiff - anything networking (squee) Outro - "Plus Delta" We help you, you help us: Rate us on iTunes     We do weddings, we do funerals, first communions, post-incident reviews