IT Pro | Microsoft MVP | Speaker | Obsessed with automation. Using Bluesky.
Victoria, Australia
Joined February 2018
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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
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DID YOU KNOW?! 🤔💡
We're branching out! 🌐
Alongside LinkedIn and X, you can now keep up with all things #PSConfEU on Bluesky. New platform, same commitment to keeping you informed on every update and insight! Join us 👉 bsky.app/profile/psconf.eu
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Have been investigating some Ansible become problem and pushed a new version of my #PowerShell module ProcessEx github.com/jborean93/Process…. Adds support for inline process calling and child policy restrictions.
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[New Video] Restricted User Experience (FKA Multi App Kiosk) youtu.be/MuCy3LV2aE0
@OnPremCloudGuy
and
@AdamGrossTX
Talk all things Windows Kiosk
#MSIntune #MVPBuzz
@jgkps
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What do you want to hear at #PSConfEU 2025? 🐱
You have 10 days to reply by filling in the form here: forms.office.com/r/JwWQrNAcs…
#PowerShell #Malmö #IT #Sweden
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msft has flipped a switch and now every user in *your* org can get a trial license for m365 copilot "without an admin's help", by default
this includes building their own custom agents (!)
turn this off at
admin -> self-service purchase -> Do not allow
ALT The Copilot page on Microsoft Admin Center