HTH0038: Complain-O-Meter

Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

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?