Archive

2026  18

August  2

macOS Platform SSO with Entra ID via Apple Business (No Intune Required)

August 21, 2026 · 11 min · Zac Lohrenz

Migrating a 107GB Gmail Mailbox with LAO: What Microsoft’s Docs Don’t Tell You

August 12, 2026 · 9 min · Zac Lohrenz

July  3

1Password Storing Your OTP Is Not MFA

July 24, 2026 · 11 min · Me

Debugging DNS Resolution in Tailscale Exit Nodes: A dnsmasq Configuration Guide

July 17, 2026 · 12 min · Me

The ‘Wait a Patch Cycle’ Doctrine Is Dead, and Most SREs Haven’t Noticed

July 2, 2026 · 5 min · Zac Lohrenz

June  1

Migrating from Per-User MFA to Conditional Access: A Strategic Approach

June 26, 2026 · 3 min · Me

May  3

How My Terraform GitHub Actions Pipeline Works

May 29, 2026 · 7 min · Zac Lohrenz

Re-reading The Phoenix Project in 2026: The CEO Constraint the Book Missed

May 15, 2026 · 8 min · Zac Lohrenz

Chasing SPF temperror in Exchange Online: DNS Timeouts, Mimecast SRS, and Getting Microsoft Engineering Involved

May 8, 2026 · 7 min · Me

April  2

I Found a Security Gap in Fastly’s WAF Agent Startup Sequence

April 12, 2026 · 8 min · Zac

Automating Microsoft Teams Provisioning with PowerShell and Graph API

April 3, 2026 · 4 min · Me

March  2

Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 Migration: Two Weeks of Pilot Migration Stories

March 24, 2026 · 8 min · Zac

What a Google Workspace to M365 Migration Actually Looks Like Mid-Flight

March 11, 2026 · 6 min · Zac Lohrenz

February  2

TextEdit Will Corrupt Your Shell Commands and Lie to Your Face About It

February 20, 2026 · 5 min · Zac Lohrenz

Azure Key Vault: Migrating from Access Policies to RBAC Before the 2027 Deadline

February 5, 2026 · 9 min · Zac Lohrenz

January  3

Building a Bulletproof Home Media Server: Solving Internet Outages, Transcoding, and Apple’s Backup Paradox

January 20, 2026 · 8 min · Zac Lohrenz

AWS Lambda Cleanup: When CloudWatch Metrics Lie

January 14, 2026 · 8 min · Zac Lohrenz

AWS EC2 Forensic Investigation: Analyzing a RegreSSHion Compromise

January 3, 2026 · 5 min · Me

2025  35

December  2

Azure SQL Private Endpoints: Why Your VPN Users Can’t Connect (And What Actually Works)

December 12, 2025 · 7 min · Zac Lohrenz

Migrating Azure Container Apps from Docker Hub to Azure Container Registry

December 5, 2025 · 7 min · Me

November  1

Building Azure VPN with Terraform: Zero-Trust Authentication and GitOps

November 21, 2025 · 7 min · Zac Lohrenz

October  3

Implementing Group-Based License Management in Microsoft 365

October 31, 2025 · 4 min · Me

Why Claude Skills Beat MCP for Production Integration Work

October 17, 2025 · 5 min · Me

Migrating from Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis

October 10, 2025 · 4 min · Me

September  4

Implementing Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

September 26, 2025 · 11 min · Me

Debugging SSL Certificate Automation with OpenSSL

September 19, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Breaking the Docker Security Myth: CVE-2025-9074 and the Illusion of Container Isolation

September 13, 2025 · 8 min · Me

Automated Azure Function App Cleanup

September 12, 2025 · 2 min · Me

August  3

Implementing Azure Conditional Access Policies for Geographic Security

August 15, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Recovering Files from SQL VM Backups with Azure

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Automating NewRelic Agent Updates in Windows Environments

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · Me

July  4

Securing Azure Entra ID: Essential Security Measures for Enterprise

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Implementing Automated Azure Resource Locks with PowerShell Runbooks

July 18, 2025 · 9 min · Me

Securing Azure Infrastructure: Implementing Essential Security Policies

July 11, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Implementing Azure Security Best Practices: Break Glass Accounts, MFA, and Legacy Auth

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · Me

June  4

Automating macOS Setup and Backups with Homebrew, Dotfiles, and Bootstrap Scripts

June 27, 2025 · 3 min · Me

CDN Architecture: Design Patterns for Global Scale

June 20, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Implementing Fastly WAF: Security Best Practices

June 13, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Container and Infrastructure Security Scanning: A Comprehensive Guide

June 6, 2025 · 2 min · Me

May  5

Cert-Manager in Production: Automated Certificate Management

May 30, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Service Mesh Architecture: Implementation and Best Practices

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Prometheus Monitoring: SRE Best Practices and Implementation

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · Me

CQRS Pattern: Implementation Guide for Modern Applications

May 9, 2025 · 4 min · Me

Event Sourcing: Building Event-Driven Systems

May 2, 2025 · 4 min · Me

April  4

Database Scaling Patterns for High-Traffic Applications

April 25, 2025 · 4 min · Me

GitOps Workflow Patterns

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Advanced ArgoCD Deployment Patterns and Best Practices

April 11, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Advanced Kubernetes Ingress Patterns and Best Practices

April 4, 2025 · 1 min · Me

March  4

Custom Metrics Scaling in Kubernetes

March 28, 2025 · 4 min · Me

Kubernetes Node Pool Management and Cloud-Specific Scaling Patterns

March 21, 2025 · 2 min · Me

Implementing Pod Disruption Budgets: Ensuring Application Availability

March 14, 2025 · 1 min · Me

Kubernetes HPA Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

March 7, 2025 · 2 min · Me

February  1

Free Web Hosting: Building a Professional Site with Cloudflare Pages

February 28, 2025 · 3 min · Me