Title card: Seeding Entra ID When There Is Nothing to Paste

Seeding Entra ID When There Is Nothing to Paste

Okta, Authentik, FreeIPA and PingOne all hand me a token to paste into a config file. Entra hands me nothing, so the seeder has to solve its own access problem before it can create a single user.

Title card: Test Data That Breaks Scripts on Purpose

Test Data That Breaks Scripts on Purpose

I built a lab by hand to test an RC4 migration script, and every run came back clean. The two accounts it should have caught were invisible, because my fixture held the same wrong assumption as the filter.

Title card: Learning Resources

Learning Resources

A running list of the books, communities, modules, tools and certification paths I have actually used. Kept as I find things, including the ones I wish I had known about earlier.

Title card: Conditional Access: Outcomes, Not Verdicts

Conditional Access: Outcomes, Not Verdicts

A report-only CA policy, and one question: if I enable it, who stops being able to work? What If gave me thirteen rows and no answer. So I wrote a PowerShell module that folds them into one.

Title card: Using an MCP agent to query Entra with natural language.

Using an MCP agent to query Entra with natural language.

I setup Lokka, an MCP agent created by the great Merill Fernando, and demonstrate how easy it is to get data within VSCode from a tenant using natural language queries.

Title card: Using Entra to log into an application without SAML/OAUTH/OIDC

Using Entra to log into an application without SAML/OAUTH/OIDC

Stuck with a Legacy web app that doesn’t work with SAML/OAUTH/OIDC? I show how to set credentials so the app can be launched and logged into from myapps.microsoft.com.

Title card: Setting up SSO with Entra and Proxmox (OIDC)

Setting up SSO with Entra and Proxmox (OIDC)

Showing how to authenticate into Proxmox with Microsoft SSO.

Title card: Setting up SSO with Entra and Portainer (OAuth)

Setting up SSO with Entra and Portainer (OAuth)

Showing how to authenticate into Portainer with Microsoft SSO.

Title card: Information for Microsoft Licenses in tenant

Information for Microsoft Licenses in tenant

Using mggraph for powershell, find all licenses in use and which users have which license. Detailing whether they are directly assigned or inherited via a group.