For the Love of LDAP
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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…
Let’s Match it up
Reading Time: 14 minutes Growing up, I watched my parents do this thing that feels kind of rare now. They didn’t just go to work. They built a work life. Like the kind that bleeds into the community, where people know your name, and your effort leaves marks in places…
Entra ID source anchor attribute
Reading Time: 5 minutes So, here I am looking down at a project to create a new domain and migrate users. Normally this isn’t a bad process. You clone the user on the other domain and have them sign in. Use a tool like Profwiz or ADMT (assuming it works). Then I…
Intune Detection Rules
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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…
What is Azure AD DS
Reading Time: 7 minutes 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…
DREAM prompt framework
Reading Time: 22 minutes 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…
F.L.A.R.E Chat GPT
Reading Time: 22 minutes 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…
Finding Nimo
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a new day and a new shiny toy for us homelabers. Last month, the processor on my old laptop finally breathed its last. It was a good laptop, but it was ready to pass on. However, what made this crappy is my little Dell gave up as well. I…
Global Reader Role Security Concerns
Reading Time: 5 minutes It started like most of my learning sessions do. I cracked open a cold Dr Pepper and decided to poke around Microsoft 365 Explorer just to see how it really works. Not trying to solve a ticket or check alerts, just digging through the Security…