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 scripts and store them off somewhere to be carried…
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. No, it’s not the sound your coffee makes when it…
-Start of Shift- Ticket#000001 “Please Remove Matt Jacobs from the group: Super-Awesome-Admins” What Just Happened? Well…. someone got a little click happy and deleted the entire group instead of deleting a single member from the group. Now what do we do? It’s not an M365 group so we can’t recover it from Deleted Items. It’s…
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 say you’ve just finished integrating a new SSO application to your EntraID list Enterprise Applications…
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 out to me is what to do…
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 swear I picked up from Microsoft either in a blog post,…
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 as administrators, engineers, and technical professionals some time lose…
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 that you some times need a…
