Working In the System
Working Within the System: Notes from a Sysadmin I've been doing this work long enough to watch the same pattern play out over and over. An admin gets handed a problem, sees a cleaner way to solve it, and instead of working the problem inside the structure they were hired into, they go around it. Sometimes that means downloading a tool the...
Intune Detection Rules
The other day, I was showing a friend how to set up Intune deployments. Then it hit me: I have unique scripts for script detections and things like that here on therandomadmin.com. However, I haven't really gone through the detection rules for built-in items. I was...
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...
