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Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

All about Outlook PSTs, PowerShell functions, Bing encroaching on other browsers, Windows Clipboard, GitHub, and things Microsoft will kill soon. Other things too.

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

Steve wrote a function to get item counts in PSTs 2:25

• Started with an unsatisfying script found online

• New script can drill into an indefinite amount of subfolders

• The solution is recursion

• Reminds Tiff of MFCMAPI https://github.com/stephenegriffin/mfcmapi

Uploading PSTs to Office 365 9:45

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/use-network-upload-to-import-pst-files

• https://protection.office.com

• Data Governance -> Import

• More Azure technologies being used to support O365 administration

• You can upload a PST to Azure Blob Storage and then import it into someone's mailbox

• Tiff discusses the new eDiscovery tool

Microsoft is forcing a Bing Extension onto Chrome users 15:30

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/microsofts-sneaky-plan-to-switch-chrome-searches-from-google-to-bing/

• "The change takes place beginning with Version 2002 of Office 365 Pro Plus, and it will affect both new installations and existing installations as they're automatically updated."

• https://odinsiders.uservoice.com/forums/920533-distribution-upgrades-servicing/suggestions/39494872-do-not-force-push-bing-as-the-default-search-engin

• We still <3 Bing Rewards though

The New Windows Clipboard 19:43

• From 1809 onward

• Completely reinvents the way you handle moving of data

• Open Settings

• Click on System

• Click on Clipboard

• Turn on Clipboard history

• Enables a new shortcut: Windows + V

• Remembers multiple copied items and lets you select them on demand

• Has a few bugs in certain applications (Excel), and won't really pass through RDP.

Git It (What are some cool utilities on GitHub?) 23:30

• Tiff's picks:

○ https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

§ Highlight: PowerRename

• Steve's picks:

○ Caprine https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/

○ Spleeter https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

○ PowerShell https://github.com/PowerShell/powershell

○ Dolphin https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin

○ StevenBlack Hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

○ Google Play Music Desktop Player https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-

What is Microsoft going to Thelma and Louise? 32:33

• O365 EOS roadmap

• https://blog.admindroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Infographic-for-2020-End-of-Support-Milestone-in-Office-365.pdf

• Search-Mailbox cmdlet is going away, update your scripts!

• SharePoint Classic is being sunset? Microsoft has been historically unclear on its end-of-life timeline

• Office 2013 to O365 support is ending, as is Office for Mac 2016

• Basic authentication

Variety Hour 39:05

• A brief tangent about POP and IMAP

• A brief tangent about Doctor Who and House MD

• Another somewhat major vulnerability is discovered (this time with IE), no patch till February (CVE-2020-0674)

○ "Consider using Microsoft Edge or an alternate browser until patches are made available."

• Microsoft Edge, Chromium, WebKit, and the IE-ification of Google Chrome

Steve does PowerShell 46:57

• Custom objects

Ask the Stiffs? Question of the week! 50:15

• What is your favorite Windows Shortcut?

• A tangent about George Costanza and a wallet full of receipts

○ https://youtu.be/yoPf98i8A0g?t=28

Outro - "Plus Delta” 54:57

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