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Project write-ups and personal notes, newest first.

2026

  1. Note1 min readThis is not a portfolioThe site started as a CV with pictures. It is now my personal site, and the portfolio is one room in it.
  2. Project4 min readCredential expiry monitoring for Entra ID app registrationsEvery mature tenant carries hundreds of app registrations whose secrets and certificates expire without warning. The alerting is the easy part. The hard parts are working out who owns each application and notifying only about credentials that are actually in use, so the owner hears first, in language they understand.
  3. Project5 min readLicence usage report: one figure per country, evidence per seatA monthly report that tells each country which seats it can reclaim, and shows the evidence behind every verdict. It began with what looked like the easiest saving of the year (around 40% of Visio and Planner seats apparently unused) and turned into a lesson about what a report should do when a data source quietly returns nothing.
  4. Project3 min readProofpoint in front of Exchange Online: what a mail gateway migration really costsPhishing and impersonation were reaching inboxes, so the company put a dedicated gateway in front of Exchange Online. Changing an MX record takes five minutes. The three inventories that have to exist before anyone touches it took months, and they are the part worth writing down while the migration is still under way.
  5. Project2 min readDesigning on-premises and cloud audit reports for privileged accountsA monthly audit report of every privileged account in Entra ID and in Active Directory, with what changed since the last one. Two automations, one report, sent encrypted to the people who need to read it, and a pattern small enough to copy in a week.
  6. Project2 min readEntra ID audit logs to CrowdStrike SIEM, one stream per countryEntra ID → Event Hubs → Stream Analytics → CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, with Azure Automation keeping the user-to-country lookup fresh. Beyond filtering: each country becomes a measurable unit, with its own events, volumes and security metrics.

2025

  1. Project5 min readA reliable device inventory: one endpoint, several objects, three automationsA recurring question in device management: why does the inventory never quite match reality? Because one physical endpoint can exist as several objects across Entra ID and Intune, and nothing cleans that up by itself. Three automations keep it honest.
  2. Project2 min readTurning SOC findings into a remediation process the Workplace team could runThe security operations centre detects and analyses; the Workplace team has the hands on the devices. Without an agreed process between the two, every alert was a conversation. With one, it became a playbook, and playbooks can be automated.
  3. Project2 min readRedesigning Intune enrollment for classrooms, meeting rooms and staff laptopsAt a business school where a lecture cannot stop because a PC asks for a password, every kind of device got its own enrollment profile, baseline and slice of the application catalogue. Onboarding became a matter of picking the right profile.

2024

  1. Project9 min readIntune group, assignment and maintenance window designIn Intune there is almost always more than one way to reach a result, and the documentation stops short of telling you which to pick. A design that stays maintainable as the tenant grows: how to structure groups and assignments, which targeting method to use where, and how to decide when change is allowed to land.

2023

  1. Project3 min readNAC with Intune and Aruba ClearPass: a certificate, a query, and a maturity examNetwork access control sounds like a product you switch on. It is actually two teams meeting at one interface (a certificate carrying the Intune Device ID and a Graph query) plus a set of questions about your own maturity that decide whether the project should run at all.

2022

  1. Project6 min readIntune Health Status: monitoring Apple certificates, tokens and connectors with Logic AppsIntune device management depends on seven external certificates, tokens and connectors, each with its own expiry and failure mode. Miss the APNs renewal window and every iOS device has to be re-enrolled by hand. Two Logic Apps recurrences check all seven against Microsoft Graph and alert 30 days ahead, with the values and the console link needed to act on it.