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The Quiet Licensing Drift Nobody Notices Until it Matters
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

Shannon
May 266 min read


Cleaning up master → main without creating a mess you have to clean up later
At some point you look across your repos and realize you've got some sort of split personality problem. Half your projects are on main, the other half are still on master, and every time you touch a pipeline, clone a repo, or write documentation, you have to stop and remember which one you're dealing with. You know it's not broken, it's just inconsistent enough to be a persistent low-grade annoyance. I recently went through this myself and thought about adding this to my blog

Shannon
May 86 min read


Contributor is Not the Magic Wand You May Think it is!
The code referenced in this blog can be found here ! There are still moments when Azure catches me by surprise. Back when I first moved away from traditional on-prem environments, I was convinced the Contributor role was almost identical to Owner , just without the ability to manage access or view billing. Simple, right? Turns out that was completely wrong, and what I learned since then keeps saving me headaches every time I spin up a new environment. My goal of this post is

Shannon
Dec 6, 20255 min read


Identifying Over-Privileged Identities Using Microsoft Graph
All code for this blog can be found here . I keep hearing more and more interest by customers I work with in exploring Cloud...

Shannon
Sep 26, 20256 min read


Fixing “Sudo Status Check Failed” in Azure Update Manager
All code for this blog can be found here . Azure Update Manager promises to make patching easier. The idea is simple: assess your VMs,...

Shannon
Sep 12, 20253 min read


Internet Explorer Automation - Pt.1 Removing IE
With Internet Explorer finally retiring after a lengthy 27 year career, it came time for removal within the servers I maintain for demos....

Shannon
Sep 25, 20223 min read
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