Another edition of MMS (MOA 2025) is now in the books, and by the time this post publishes it'll have been the better part of a month since it ended! How time flies! It was, as always, an outstanding event bringing the community together for the better part of a week, and I really thank those folks behind the scenes who pull it all together so swimmingly.
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April 21, 2025Read time:
7 minutes
During a session planning conversation for MMS Flamingo last fall I had the idea to create a basic Powershell module as an illustration/starting point to using direct HTTP requests with Invoke-RestMethod against Graph API.
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April 7, 2025Read time:
6 minutes
A few weeks back I presented at BrainStorm K20 Wisconsin Dells where my key session was related to getting started with the Microsoft Graph API. The session went very well, and I have received a significant amount of positive feedback including some "best of the conference" feedback notes.
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March 10, 2025Read time:
9 minutes
In the first post of this short series, I wrote about using the Deployment Researc
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March 3, 2025Read time:
9 minutes
I've been a proponent of a dev/test CM (or just client device) lab environment for a long time.
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February 3, 2025Read time:
5 minutes
Last summer, Let's Encrypt announced their intent to end their OCSP service, and this was formalized in December with key dates related to the change.
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January 13, 2025Read time:
5 minutes
A couple times a year I do some spot checking and a little manual cleanup in AD. This is triggerd by inventory/asset management analysis. I say "spot checking" because by and large the existing business processes and automations take care of the vast majority of changes, but for a couple of reasons there are always a few stragglers.
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December 16, 2024Read time:
3 minutes
A project cropped up recently that required editing a number of disparate Group Policies in our environment due to a network share path change.
I was originally given a list of GPOs that were (somehow) identified as in scope for change; however, I knew immediately the list was incomplete and omitted some valid matches. So I was left with a choice:
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November 18, 2024Read time:
8 minutes
The last two posts were inspired by conversations at MMS Flamingo and focus on using Slack as the communication/receiver for notices relayed from a Task Sequence step