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A client asked me if he could just export his Group Policy Objects and import them into Intune in an afternoon. I wish. Twenty years of GPOs do not lift and shift into the cloud in one clean drag and drop. But moving from Group Policy to Intune is a lot less painful than most admins expect, because Microsoft built a tool that does the boring analysis...
A box of 40 new iPads landed on my desk the same morning a user emailed asking to get her personal iPhone on work email. Two devices, two completely different jobs. You do not enroll a pallet of company iPads the same way you onboard one person's phone, and picking the wrong path means wiping and starting over. So here are the iOS/iPadOS enrollment m...
I used to lose an afternoon every time I wanted a throwaway LAMP stack. Install PHP, fight the Apache config, remember which MySQL socket the thing wants, google the same permissions error I googled last year. Last week I did none of that. I opened Claude Code in an empty folder, told it what I wanted, and watched it write the files, start the contai...
I found a service account last month with a password set in 2016. It ran SQL, it had a service principal name registered, and its password was set to never expire. Someone even helpfully wrote the password in a OneNote called "IT Passwords." That account is a loaded gun pointed at the whole domain, and the fix has been sitting in Active Directory for...
A pentest report crossed my desk where the whole domain fell in about twenty minutes. No cracked domain admin password, no phishing, no malware. The attacker asked a forgotten certificate server for a certificate that said "I am the domain admin," and the server politely handed it over. Thats the quiet reality of AD CS attacks. Your certificate autho...