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Infra architect, lover of automation with ❀️ for monitoring & observability πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

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FΓΌr die aktuelle Ausgabe des IT-Administrator (MΓ€rz 2026) habe ich einen Artikel ΓΌber die Neuauflage der Desired State Configuration, DSC v3, geschrieben.

- Link zum Artikel (kostenpflichtig)
www.it-administrator.de/heftarchiv-a...

10.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Terraform for Beginners | State File Management
Terraform for Beginners | State File Management YouTube video by Jeff Brown Tech

☁️ New Video ☁️

Master Terraform state like a pro! πŸš€ Learn CLI commands to view, move, import & remove resources, plus the modern declarative approach using moved, import & removed blocks.

youtu.be/y-B7WaEz3qc

10.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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bARGE - boosted Azure Resource Graph Explorer - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - bARGE is a boosted Azure Resource Graph Explorer for Visual Studio Code, with features for comparison and insights into KQL results.

bARGE is updated! Our favorite #VSCode #KQL extension for #Azure #ResourceGraph now supports

* Over 1000 rows (previous limit)
* Frozen header row when scrolling
* In-file query buttons with CodeLens
* Tabs to keep multiple query results

Check it out! πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

05.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It has been a long time since I started working on this side project, and DLL Pickle is finally ready for an RC! This #PowerShell module is a DLL pre-loader that helps you avoid version conflicts when connecting to Microsoft Az, Graph, EXO, Teams, and SPO!
github.com/SamErde/DLLP...

04.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

That sounds like a solution for the issues I am constantly facing with #AzureAutomation runbooks.

Good stuff! Thanks πŸ™

04.03.2026 06:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop Drawing Architecture Diagrams Manually: Meet the Open-Source AI Architecture Review Agents | Microsoft Community Hub Designing and documenting software architecture is often a battle against static diagrams that become outdated the moment they are drawn. The Architecture...

"Stop Drawing Architecture Diagrams Manually: Meet the Open-Source AI Architecture Review Agents" buff.ly/OnSrvdO #Microsoft #techcommunity

26.02.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh that is awesome! Can you share this with the team that cares about Azure Automation? - I am facing here Az troubles due to inconsistent update behavior quite a lot πŸ˜‰

19.02.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Microsoft Forms

DNS & DHCP Server Monitoring, Health & Automation survey for Windows Server Admins (including requests for future features) forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon... (It's always DNS!)

17.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Azure Blob Tiering: Clarity, Truths, and Practical Guidance for Architects | Microsoft Community Hub Over the past several years of working with large enterprises, a clear pattern has emerged in conversations about modernizing backup infrastructure. Teams...

"Azure Blob Tiering: Clarity, Truths, and Practical Guidance for Architects" buff.ly/wyEgFTo #Microsoft #techcommunity

06.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Terraform for Beginners | Variables
Terraform for Beginners | Variables YouTube video by Jeff Brown Tech

πŸ“£ New YouTube Video πŸ“£

Get your variables here! πŸ‘‰ Learn how to define variables and provide values using the command line or with input files.

youtu.be/7IOhzF6Yti8

05.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of GitHub Copilot using skills to generate write-up

Screenshot of GitHub Copilot using skills to generate write-up

I recorded a 10-min video showing how I use agent skills in GitHub Copilot to turn weekly office hours into structured, timestamp'ed write-ups:
https://www.youtube.com/live/l_sdnLWNwUc


04.02.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Check your Power Platform solutions for secrets with Pester and PowerShell β€” AutoSysOps This blogpost describes how you can user PowerShell and Pester to scan your Power Platform solution files for secrets. Add it together in an Azure DevOps pipeline for a fully automated process!

I've written a blogpost about using #Pester and #PowerShell to scan your #PowerPlatform solutions with a #AzureDevOps pipeline! If #GitHub Advanced #Security is to expensive but you do want to find #Secrets then this is your #Solution!

autosysops.com/blog/check-y...

#CommunityRocks #Microsoft

26.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sliding Windows A slowcast project

Eine neue (deutsche) Folge der Sliding Windows ist online. Zu Gast ist der wunderbare Jan-Hendrik Peters. Wir sprechen ΓΌber Dies, Das, Dev und OP. Viel VergnΓΌgen!
In Eurem Podcatcher und auf der Webseite
https://www.slidingwindows.de.
#slwcast

20.01.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google introduced a new Family Link setting to limit the amount of time kids can scroll YouTube shorts.

16.01.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ› οΈ Kql Toolbox #2: Find Your Noisiest Log Sources (with Cost πŸ€‘) Welcome back to KQL Toolbox πŸ‘‹ In the last KQL Toolbox, we zoomed out and looked at billable ingest trends over timeβ€”how many GiB per day you’re ingesting, and roughly how much that’s costing you in Microsoft Sentinel. This time, we’re zooming in. Because once you can say β€œWe’re ingesting...

πŸ› οΈ Kql Toolbox #2: Find Your Noisiest Log Sources (with Cost πŸ€‘)

05.01.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enter #Agent Skills - a game-changing approach that lets you create reusable instruction sets for #GitHub #Copilot. Think of it as an onboarding guide for your AI assistant.

stefanstranger.github.io/2025/12/29/A...

30.12.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Breaking change in Invoke-WebRequest that could impact your automations.

I wrote a helper script to find where Invoke-WebRequest is and isn't using -UseBasicParsing. It also works for any other cmdlets/parameters combo.

gist.github.com/mdowst/9d00f...

#PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

11.12.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Invoke-WebRequest Just Started Asking Questions
Invoke-WebRequest Just Started Asking Questions YouTube video by Matthew Dowst DevOps

I just published a quick video to explain the new security prompt added to Invoke-WebRequest in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and show how to prevent it from affecting any of your automations.

youtu.be/JcrSg2hCJAg

#PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

11.12.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Configure a log analytics workspace to collect Window Server Event log, IIS and performance data. | Microsoft Community Hub Configuring Azure Monitor with Log Analytics for IIS Servers Azure Monitor combined with Log Analytics provides centralized telemetry collection for...

"Configure a log analytics workspace to collect Window Server Event log, IIS and performance data." buff.ly/yfGk0fT #Microsoft #techcommunity

12.12.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond RC4 for Windows authentication As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever.

Last week I announced that we're finally killing off RC4 in the Windows Kerberos stack.

This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.

What does this mean?

10.12.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Checking External Guest Activity in Other Tenants After all the fuss about Teams users inviting people to chat via email, admins realize that tracking external guest activity is not as easy as it might seem.

When a user from your tenant signs up to be a guest in another tenant, there's little evidence about what they do there. But you can at least find out who's connecting to other #Microsoft365 tenants. Here's how: office365itpros.com/2025/12/09/e...

09.12.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep - or a faulty patch on Microsoft.
We had issues this morning on Auth servers

05.12.2025 08:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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View Microsoft Ignite sessions on demand | Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft Ignite sessions are now available on demand. Whether you were unable to attend this year's event or just want a...

View Microsoft Ignite sessions on demand techcommunity.micros...

#MSIgnite

04.12.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Demystifying GitHub Copilot Security Controls: easing concerns for organizational adoption | Microsoft Community Hub At a recent developer conference, I delivered a session on Legacy Code Rescue using GitHub Copilot App Modernization. Throughout the day, conversations with...

"Demystifying GitHub Copilot Security Controls: easing concerns for organizational adoption" buff.ly/bAUUvyj #Microsoft #techcommunity

13.11.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Email Sent to Teams Channels Has New SharePoint Location In January 2025, Microsoft changed the SharePoint location for email sent to Teams channels. Apparently, this update improved security.

Normally the #Office365 for IT Pros team does a good job of detecting changes in #MicrosoftTeams, but the updated path for emails captured by the send to channel feature passed us by. So in case you missed it too, here's the scene:
office365itpros.com/2025/11/13/e...
#Microsoft365

13.11.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Sonia,

I am curious what your opinion about moving SOA for groups / users to Entra ID.

Personally, I do not feel comfortable. Perhaps because I worked as Domain Admin many years with NT4 as first contact 😁

04.11.2025 05:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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SAML vs OAuth vs OIDC: What's the Difference | Commandline Ninja: Learn PowerShell. Automate Tasks. Confused about SAML vs OAuth vs OIDC? This guide explains what each protocol does and when to use them.

Do you know the differences between SAML, OAuth, and OIDC?I created a guide that outlines differences and offers guidance on when to use each one AND Real examples to illustrate the concepts
commandline.ninja/saml-oauth-o...
#Identity #Authentication #IAM #CyberSecurity #CloudSecurity

27.10.2025 13:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Master GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions
Master GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions YouTube video by Tim Warner

GitHub Copilot custom instructions just changed the game.
No more repeating your dev standards, security requirements, or dependencies in every prompt. I just dropped a tutorial showing exactly how to set up .instructions files at both repo-level and file-specific granularity.

youtu.be/Jt3i1a5tSbM

24.10.2025 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage Report API General Availability The Copilot usage report Graph API is now generally available. Like the report APIs for the other workloads, the Copilot usage API helps to understand usage

The #Copilot usage reports Graph API is now GA, which is nice (if you use Copilot)... but what can you do with the data? This article explains how to use the API to mix and match Copilot data with other #Microsoft365 info.
office365itpros.com/2025/10/10/c...

10.10.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a classic βœŒοΈπŸ‘

01.10.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0