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

You'd be surprised by the kinds of questions I get from customers these days. A lot of them start in places that feel familiar enough. Someone wants to understand Microsoft's decision to deprecate WSUS. Someone else is trying to figure out whether Azure Update Manager makes sense for their environment. Another customer is looking at Linux for the first time after spending most of their career in Windows-centric shops. On the surface, those sound like completely different conv

As with previous posts, all source code and a corresponding GitHub repository can be found here! This is one of those questions that seems like it should have a straightforward answer, but it doesn't because what good fun would that be if there were a straightforward answer? I'm sure you've been here before: someone spots an enterprise application in Microsoft Entra ID, notices it has permissions or credentials attached, and naturally asks: who created this thing? If you star

This keeps coming up in real conversations, and it usually surfaces right when decisions start to matter. Someone says they are "in GCC," and from there the assumption creeps in that Azure Government is somehow already in the picture. That leap feels small in the moment, but know it is not. The reference and assumption snowballs into bad architecture, wrong scoping, and uncomfortable conversations when compliance teams start asking harder questions. People are not being carel

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...

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I'm always experimenting and trying out new things. Like I've talked about previously, I love Chocolatey. I was experimenting with...