HTH0016 - Pile o' Dongles

Governance of Teams meeting wallpaper, Exchange Online PowerShell connection timeouts, M365 sensitivity labels, VS Code updates, M365 reliability, Azure DevOps, Stream, and far more things than a synopsis can do justice.

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

Boot-Up (Intro…random topics)

• Minecraft in the Enterprise

○ Correction: Microsoft bought Mojang in 2014, not 2016/2017.

• Johnny Gilbert and game shows

• Searched "zoom jpeg mouth" on F***F***Go - Steve got inappropriate page results

○ The thing we were actually trying to find was Avatarify

• Teams Background Governance

• https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35000044-introduce-breakout-room-functionality  - Vote for breakout rooms

• What the Auth: EXOPM v2 reconnects via Basic Auth after a timeout? Steve is asking MS for clarification.

• Things Teams does better than Zoom and vice versa

• The Sony WH-1000X M3 headset

• Let's get sensitive: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-privacy-and-compliance/announcing-general-availability-of-sensitivity-labels-with/ba-p/1356224

• Weathering the Reply-All storm: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/reply-all-storm-protection-in-exchange-online/ba-p/1369811

• VS Code 1.45 Update: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_45

• Why is Exchange Online/M365 breaking so much? https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/gj3pm8/exchange_online_outage_ex212990/

Azure DevOps

• Transferring in from GitHub

• Structuring projects/repos

• Permissions and Governance

Screaming Over Stream

• Why does Microsoft make the recording functionality so unbearably complicated https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording

Doublespeak in Tech 

• Phrasing that tech companies use that really could mean just about anything and confuse the heck out of everyone

They rearranged the deck chairs in Outlook and I don't like it

• Search bar moved to title bar area, dropdown for filters hidden until clicked

• Inline reply: Pop Out / Discard buttons swapped

• Ribbon has been condensed / Some items have been relocated to inline reply only (Forward as attachment/Call/Reply with IM/Meeting)

Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week

• What is your favorite dongle?

Outro - "Plus Delta"

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• Website: https://hthpc.com