For the Love of LDAP
Over the past 5 years, I have heard the conversation of how do we move our AD to the cloud. Oh the cloud, loud, mild, my child, it's not as easy as you think. There are things in older environments that can tur some people's feathers if it ever glitch or goes down. I once saw a IIS app stop working with ldap, the app was a proxy for the ceo to...
What is Azure AD DS
The VPN tunnel was solid. We had split-tunnel traffic, per-user group policies, and MFA layered on Azure AD sign-ins. Nothing fancy, just a Meraki firewall and a bunch of cloud-native users on laptops. Then someone asked for Wi-Fi to authenticate via RADIUS. Not Wi-Fi...
DREAM prompt framework
It was one of those afternoons where my Dr Pepper was flat but the ticket queue was very much not. I’d been asked to sketch a plan for Veeam backups across 500 TB of mixed storage, and my brain felt like a RAID array rebuilding on one disk. I tossed a lazy prompt at...
F.L.A.R.E Chat GPT
A Tuesday That Needed Structure Chaos greeted my Tuesday before coffee. Tickets screamed from three dashboards. A file server blinked like a sleepy raccoon. Meetings overlapped, because of course they did. Prompts to Chat GPT 5 sounded rushed and vague. Results came...
