IT Pro | Microsoft MVP | Speaker | Obsessed with automation. Using Bluesky.
Victoria, Australia
Joined February 2018
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A pod on a cluster under my desk, reading my Intune device estate out of Microsoft Graph. No app registration, no client secret, no certificate expiring at 2am on a Sunday. buff.ly/2wLP2vH #PowerShell #Kubernetes
Local k8s + Azure Arc + workload identity: pods pulling Key Vault secrets with zero credentials!
powers-hell.com/2026/08/26/a… #PowerShell #Azure
Explaining insane content while being trolled by my friends is why I love going to @PSConfEU
If you think you’ve seen it all – this will still take you by surprise. Or so I reckon.
OIDC in PWSH - Ben Reader - PSConfEU 2026
youtu.be/jc8ec1N2QeE
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New Blog Post: Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity Federation – A "Yak-Shaver's Delight" aaronstannard.com/dotnet-sig…
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Unlock secure Azure authentication techniques with @powers_hell Ben Reader. Explore MSAL, managed identities, and #PowerShell integrations for a password-free future. #PSConfEU youtu.be/UgdhicrPn9c?si=0mBr…
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✨ And just like that, we’re in the final sessions of PowerShell Saturday!
@powers_hell and Georgi Ivanov are closing the day with incredible insights and expertise. A perfect wrap-up to an inspiring and engaging day.
#PSSatKA #PSSaturdayKA #PowerShell
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🚀 200 days until #Malmö becomes the centre of the #PowerShell universe!
@powers_hell, a Linux nerd and automation mastermind, is ready to take the stage.
🎉 Connect with the community in 2025. 🎟️ psconf.eu
#PSConfEU #Sweden #Svenska #IT #Automation
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Third try 😁
I will be speaking at #dotNETConf about our new Testing.Platform, we are developing at Microsoft. Come join me on this free virtual event, and see how to use it with MSTest, XUnit and NUnit! And also how to easily dockerize your tests.
#dotnet #testing
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Attention Enterprise and Security architects and devs bookmark this 👇
Microsoft just published new guidance on how you can use Microsoft Entra to enable multiple use cases for workforces, partners, and consumers, potentially in combination.
See 👉learn.microsoft.com/en-us/en…
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PowerShell to give today's interactive logons to a Windows machine using the user profile service event log so logon/logoff auditing not required and works non-elevated
Get-WineVent -oldest -FilterHashtable @{ LogName = 'Microsoft-Windows-User Profile Service/Operational' ; Id = 1,4 ; StartTime = [datetime]::today }|select TimeCreated,@{n='User';e={([Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]($_.UserId)).Translate([Security.Principal.NTAccount]).Value}},Message – at Wakefield, England
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In case you missed it, back in October we published a brand new guide for deploying phishing-resistant passwordless in your organization with Entra ID: aka.ms/PasswordlessGuide ! This is the outcome of a ton of effort across Microsoft, please use it to begin your journey!
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Microsoft blames third-party update management tools for the accidental upgrade of Windows Server 2019 and 2022 to 2025: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi…
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On Nov. 2nd, Microsoft officially released Server 2025 as Generally Available. For our fellow #sysadmins, the sudden appearance on your '22 servers is understandably concerning. Learn what went wrong, who’s impacted, and why MS isn’t entirely to blame 👉 pmpc.link/windows-server-202…
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#Github #Copilot edits is absolutely wild.
I've never made a browser extension before yet can make edits like this effortlessly adding a #PowerShell command column.
(Tiny text to show ultrawide dev style, sorry)
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Good news the Appx cmdlets work on #PowerShell 7 natively in Server 2025 now. Bad news the Appx cmdlets now fail to load through WinRM PSRemoting on Server 2025 due to extra deps not in the GAC. Here is a "hack" to get it working again gist.github.com/jborean93/f6….
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Last week for #PowerShell Summit submissions! Especially if you're a first time speaker you should submit, who knows, you might get accepted!
sessionize.com/pshsummit25/d…
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Interesting. When the Intune MDM certificate is saved to the SYSTEM profile during certain enrolment scenarios, it is exported, without the private key, to the enrolling users profile too 🧐
Blog coming…
#DiggingTooDeep
Doctors hate this one weird trick - did you buy a Mac and pay to upgrade to 16GB memory before they made that the new standard?
If you call post sales support and ask for the upgrade cost back, they will approve it...
If a dry run flag on a command ignores filtering conditions, it is entirely useless...
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cl…
A fun reminder that documentation is hard. This is factually incorrect and 'az storage blob delete-batch' with --dryrun DOES NOT IGNORE precondition arguments.
Touchdown for documentation.
