HTH0038: Complain-O-Meter

Outlook Web Access, Scrum, Windows Admin Center complaints, Defender for Endpoint complaints, and the world of InfoSec, among other things!

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

Boot-up

    OWA Suggested Pre-reads on meeting reminders, interesting idea

    Not mad, just disappointed: Cloud shell kinda sucks, I'm complaining about it

    Set-MSOLUserLicense is going away

    The importance of learning programming/scripting/CLI/DevOps, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.

    Steve figures out git branching

    Scrum, orgs adapting to agile, etc

Windows Admin Center annoys me immensely, but it does work I guess

    Ongoing follow-up from HTH episode 20 and 24 regarding WAC

    Stupid little things, some complaints from HTH0020 are still in play

    Remote PowerShell feature is really picky (and buggy)?

    Must specify credentials in a certain way

    UserVoice pages are 404'd in documentation

    Speed/efficiency issues

    Can't do advanced things like take ownership of registry keys or values, still need regedit to do that

    Semi-related: Manage Active Directory Objects with the New Windows AD Provider for HashiCorp Terraform

Defender for Endpoint device inventory/search/dashboards/reports could be better

    I wish it would support wildcard searches

    Is really picky about exact matches

    Duplicate/misleading entries: Workgroup vs domain

    Removing a device other than waiting for it to age out?

    Fix unhealthy sensors in Microsoft DFE

    Reordering columns isn't possible

    Have to stretch out the browser window across multiple monitors to get full width

    Entire interface is inefficient, sort of like WAC

InfoSec - The new Sysadmin

    CISO MindMap 2021: What do InfoSec Professionals Actually Do?

    How To Get A Job in Cybersecurity

    Look at all this stuff!

    Are they actually sysadmins?

    What IS a sysadmin?

The OWA Experience

    Missing UI elements

    Flagged items in a sidebar

    Has a "To Do" panel but it doesn’t include flagged items

    Calendar flyout is not expanded by default

    Categories (already discussed at length in our blog)

    [old man complaint] Forward as Attachment is different

    GMU.edu guide on how to do it in OWA

    Meeting notifications aren't prominent/obnoxious enough

    No unread "group by folder" view

    Can't add an Office 365 Group as a favorite like you can in Outlook

    Table management in OWA email composition is bugged

    Can't set specific to-do dates for flagged items?