HTH0033 - Don't Let AI Be Yourself For Yourself

Hope This Helps - A Tech Podcast

HTH Turns 1 year old! We catch up on cloud happenings, productivity score ethical debates, bad naming schemes, Solarwinds, M365 deathwatch, and more!

Extended Show Notes available at https://hthpc.com

===Boot Up===

• HTH Turns 1 year old

• M365 email forwarding dashboards aren't great

• Productivity Score - Remember the human (stop being creepy)

○ Microsoft says no to Productivity Score for individual users

○ Concerns remain about Microsoft Teams employee analytics

○ Microsoft responded to the criticisms by anonymizing the data, and making other changes, but the truth is that the data is still being collected – it is simply no longer being packaged up as neatly for the use of managers.

○ Methods of focusing differ from person to person

○ Read Only Friday: Let’s not mess with people‘s eyes with webcam AI

• Worst name - "Tasks By Planner and To-Do"

○ Xbox naming is awful

• Flash is dead

○ HTML5 is not a replacement

○ Recent MacOS bugginess/nagging prompts

• One More Outlook

○ The OneNote fiasco

○ Talking about email in general

• Solarwinds/Solorigate

• FiOS outage

• 2021 IT predictions

○ DevOps/SysOps merge

○ More Hybrid

===M365 things dying in 2021===

• 2021 End-of-Support Milestone in Microsoft 365

===Teams===

• Native notifications are coming

===State of the Zunion===

• Article from The Verge Zune's afterlife

===That is Accurate===

• You can float on air

===Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week===

○ What is the current hot tech you should learn as a sysadmin?

○ Kubernetes, basically

===Outro - "Plus Delta"===

• We help you, you help us: Rate us on iTunes

• We applied to be Ignite speaker moderators!