HTH0015 - Your Box Is Your Business

Zune video conversion in 2020, Azure ARM templates, Kubernetes, Windows Terminal, Mozilla Firefox security, SMTP authentication, Exchange Online PowerShell Module v2 stuff, and more!

Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/

Boot-Up (Intro…random topics)

• Clarification about Docker, it is not owned by Microsoft (yet?), they are just in a partnership. 

○ https://www.docker.com/partners/microsoft

○ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-suggesting-that-microsoft-buy-docker-is-crazy-talk/

○ However, Microsoft DID buy Deis: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/10/microsoft-acquires-container-platform-deis/

• Zoom, using Oracle - https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-deploys-its-core-videoconferencing-service-on-oracle-cloud

• Y’know what annoys me? Sites with lax password complexity requirements

• Annoying Windows Bug of the Week: Run box randomly won't remember history

• Skype for Business to Teams calendar bugs / Dual meeting room bugs

• Grappling with Zune HD Handbrake conversion settings. Possible alternatives (untested): http://www.mediacoderhq.com/dlfull.htm or https://nodadev.wordpress.com/pc-projects/ipodme/

• I mean half of the services broke this week, so it makes sense to me!

○ https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241972/microsoft-teams-75-million-daily-active-users-stats

The Long ARM of the Cloud / I Can Hardly Contain My Excitement

• Azure ARM templates, deploying via PowerShell or Azure CLI

• Steve thinks the CLI is simpler than the Web UI

• AKS (Kubernetes) in Azure

• Docker in Azure

• Blob Storage

This Guy Terminals

• Windows Terminal

• Extendibility

• JSON settings - C:\Users\person\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

• Critical missing features:

○ Run as different user

○ CTRL Shift Scroll for transparency

How to Secure Your Mozzarella FoxFire

• Why do this?

• Firefox Container Tabs - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1201060

• Firefox Multi-Account Containers - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

• Temporary Containers - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/

○ Enable "Automatic Mode" for best results

• Cookie Auto-Delete - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

○ "Enable Support for Firefox's Container Tabs" for best results

• uBlock Origin - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

• NoScript only if you're really paranoid - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=search

• Disable Homograph: network.IDN_show_punycode = true

○ Or you can use the No Homo-Graph extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-homo/

Shut your... Box (Inbox that is)

• The option now exists to disable SMTP Auth inside of tenants

○ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/securing-authenticated-smtp-in-exchange-online/ba-p/1293154

• It seems like the Exchange Online PowerShell Module V2 times out very quickly and requires you to fully close/relaunch PowerShell if you want to reload it.

• Email security is now more important than ever!

○ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/re-thinking-email-security/

Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week

• Are you using ARM Templates? What cool things are you doing with them in your deployments?

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