Azure

Like many people, I have a custom desktop at home that I use. I bought it in 2020, so it's a little over a year old. I wanted to install Windows 11 on the machine. Whenever I'd run the Windows PC Health Check, it'd say my machine wasn't able to run Windows 11 because TPM wasn't detected, just like what is shown in the screen shot below. Note the picture I'm using isn't my machine, as I have 64GB of RAM installed, but it should hopefully look familiar to those of you stuck in

I had a colleague at Microsoft (who's not in identity) mention that it's confusing when someone looks in the Entra portal or Azure Active Directory in the Azure Portal and sees a place for Application Registrations AND a separate place for Enterprise Applications. I took a step back, put on my "I don't work in identity hat" and realized he's not necessarily wrong. For folks that may be newer to the identity space of Microsoft, I thought I'd take some time and demystify things

So I have a mirrorless Sony Alpha A6100 that I've been using as my webcam the last handful of months. I really like the way my video looks and actually prefer it over my Logitech Brio. Now, being in IT, I just use my Logitech Brio as a backup or for any video platform I don't have familiarity with yet. As a quick aside, I never realized I would've perfected some of what I've been able to perfect the last almost 2 years with everything being remote. At some point, I may do a b

After my first full month in the identity PG (I switched roles recently at Microsoft), I wound up being introduced to ngrok. In the back of my mind, I envisioned these tools existed, but didn't have first hand experience. After dealing with Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials and standing up a web app that can issue out verified credentials, leaning on ngrok proved to be invaluable. So what is ngrok exactly? Well ngrok allows you to take your local development envir

The writing has been on the wall for a bit: everything is software defined, I'm authoring both ARM and Bicep templates, I'm using PowerShell or Az-CLI commands to programmatically build inside Azure, so why not delve a bit deeper into programming? It'll especially come in handy with my new role and all the work we'll be covering with authorization and authentication using modern identity services. The biggest hurdle I've found is simply knowing the direction to start. I've ta