CLOUDY MUSINGS

I have been attending Microsoft events in one form or another for a long time, and I have learned that the first wave of conference reactions is usually not where the real story lives. The first wave is always loud. It's the keynote clips, the social posts, the product names, the demos, and the inevitable rush to figure out which announcement is the announcement everyone should be talking about. That's useful to a point, but I usually find the more interesting story a little

As with previous blogs, working code and all relevant how-tos exist in this GitHub Repository! Clone, star, fork...whatever makes the most sense! You ever get halfway through a conversation about endpoint security or device posture and realize you're just kind of assuming everyone's on Windows 11 Enterprise? Not because you checked, not because anyone validated it recently, just because that's how it's always been said out loud. It feels settled, like something that got figur

There is a very particular flavor of frustration that only appears in identity work. I used to work in the identity and network access division at Microsoft, so my joke was I needed to move faster over the course of my career, because I've landed smack dab in identity and by proxy security most of my career. The moment I'm talking about is when Microsoft Authenticator calmly informs you that you have "too many devices registered." You know with absolute clarity that this is i

All code for this blog can be found here . I keep hearing more and more interest by customers I work with in exploring Cloud...

All code for this blog can be found here . I've been trailblazing with Azure since 2016. Before 2016, I set up an Entra ID (formerly...