Thursday afternoon, the help desk lights up. Users can't get into the ticketing system to tell you they can't get into anything. Someone who's still signed in to Teams asks if "Azure is down." That was November 12. Starting around 1:26
Whoah…. okay, maybe this title isn’t as long as my SAML certificate notification post, but the topic sure likes to sprawl. Let’s say you’re mid–SSO integration. The app isn’t a simple gallery walkthrough. It’s the kind that used to live on AD FS with
I've been tossing and turning on making a repo public. Talking with several close friends and others in the community, I finally realized that if you keep putting it off... you'll never do it. Writing a module is something relatively new for me. I typically write
Making PoSH cleaner, one iteration at a time. Have you ever looked at a long-winded PowerShell command and thought,“There’s gotta be a better way to write this mess…”? Let me introduce or maybe re-introduce you to the often overlooked, yet delightfully helpful little trick called splatting.
-Start of Shift- Ticket#000001 "Please Remove Matt Jacobs from the group: Super-Awesome-Admins" * Technician Logs in to Entra * Elevates using Privileged Identity Management (PIM) * Searches for the group * Clicks Delete * Closes Ticket What Just Happened? Well.... someone got a little click happy and deleted the entire
Whoah.... what a long title! I know, I know and I'm sorry. What I'm about to cover is something that I think most administrators might miss. I know it's bit me before (I'm not ashamed to admit it). Okay, let's
There is an interesting change that will be happening over the next year for Exchange Online consumers. Microsoft has announced that Basic authentication with Client Submission (SMTP AUTH) will be deprecated in September 2025. I'll be following this thread as it evolves but the one thing that stands
I've had many people ask me this question lately: "Hey I noticed this icon changed from AzureAD to EntraID, What up with that MJ?" Well that's a good question! To me this boils down in to two talking points. My first talking point, I
As the February 27th 2023 Number Matching deadline draws near, I'm sure admins across the globe are still working on rollouts or perhaps just bracing for the change. Over the past few weeks I've been thinking about how to soften the impact on end users. We
Welcome all who have stumbled upon this website. My name is Matt and I wanted to create a website / blog about all things cloud, security, and technology. I think one of the biggest challenges I have faced in my career has been finding answers. While it's no secret