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My first Microsoft certification renewal experiences - AZ500 and SC300
My first Microsoft …

Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about my first ever Microsoft certification renewal experience. Background I passed my first Microsoft certification exam back in February 2020 when I gained the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification. However, with that being a 900 …

How to apply Group Policy tied to an AD Security Group without a reboot
How to apply Group Policy …

Cover Photo by Benjamin Sharpe on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about a problem you may have come across before and been frustrated by many times, and how to overcome it. Something that’s very powerful with Group Policy Objects (GPO) is the ability to use Security …

Introducing: The Audrey Project
Introducing: The Audrey …

Introduction In my post on Keeping up-to-date with Tech, Cloud and Security, I talked about using RSS feeds to curate your own news feed. It occurred to me after writing that post that I would end up coming back to update that feed export periodically, so why not put it in a repository and allow …

Keeping up to date with Tech, Cloud and Security info
Keeping up to date with …

Cover Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about something that comes up often enough that its probably worth a post now! I’m often asked how I manage to keep up with whats going in tech in general, and Cloud and Information …

Site Structure Changes

This is a very quick update to make you aware of some changes I’ve made: There is a new Personal Blog section for my non-technical blog posts and I have moved my Job Interview and Invisible Illness posts there. There is a new My Writing section for my fiction pieces (poetry, short stories). …

What are shadow admins in Windows, why should you care and what can you do about them?
What are shadow admins in …

Cover Photo by David East on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about a concept you may have heard of (shadow admins), what they are, why they are a problem you need to care about, and what to do about them. What is a shadow admin? The name should be fairly self explanatory …