HTH0018 - Don't Go JSON Waterfalls

Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

Windows Clipboard bugs, EXO cmdlets go GA, facial recognition, MFA, Zune stuff, JSON in Windows Terminal, Sarbanes Oxley Audits, and some AD permission tricks.

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

*Apologies in advance, in this episode there may be minor audio desyncing*

Boot-Up (Intro…random topics)

• Closet options
• The new Outlook search doesn't work well with the Windows Clipboard
• Buy yourself M365 features
• Update on wattage distribution for Raspberry Pi NAS + 2 USB SSDs - 30w Anker brick - P(W) = I(A) × V(V)
• EXO v2 Cmdlets are GA - "I can't believe this is GA. It has so many issues, uses global variables everywhere, and doesn't work on PowerShell 7"
• Microsoft Print Service
• Microsoft not selling facial recognition tech to law enforcement

It's-a me, MFArio!

• Nintendo accounts breached
• Let's explain why this is happening (tl;dr: enable MFA!)

State of the Zunion

• Follow-up on Zune video converter - Anvsoft Any Video Converter has presets for converting to the correct video formats for Zune. Was also able to get a working MediaCoder preset for the Zune 80 and Zune HD at least.

Don't Go JSON Waterfalls - Running Windows Terminal as another user

• GitHub Issue
• I found a workaround for this by running the application as-is, and then just modifying the JSON config file to include entries to spawn PowerShell sessions as another user. Note that this will not get the new session to run a new tab, rather, it will launch a new window. It DOES work however as available drop-down options. Would be nice to see this baked into the application where instead of opening a new window, it will just open in-place as a new tab instead.

“Unplanned Outage” (Sponsor section - "Hope this Helps is helped by…")

• Next Generation IoT
• Google Home with Poop Mode
• Apple's new outdoor expansion: GnomePod
• Amazon Home Fire

Don't forget to wash your sox

• What is sox auditing?
• The Sarbanes Oxley Act

Configuring multiple managers of a single AD group

• "Managed by" only lets you configure a single user as a manager, no groups.
• Workaround via "write member" ACLs or Add-ADPermission
• On the ACL, configure the principal, set it to "Allow" "This object only," ensuring only "write members" is checked.