Raising Active Directory functional level to Windows Server 2025
Once all domain controllers run Windows Server 2025, raising the domain and forest functional levels unlocks new AD features and drops the legacy compatibility floor. This post walks through the process using Active Directory Domains and Trusts.
PowerShell MCP server with Claude Code
PowerShell can now act as an MCP server, giving AI agents like Claude direct access to your shell session. This post walks through installing and configuring PowerShell.MCP with Claude Code and covers practical IT automation scenarios.
Leveraging AGENTS.md for smarter prompting
AGENTS.md is more than a cross-tool fallback config. Structured well for your Azure and Microsoft 365 environment, it eliminates the repetitive context you type at the start of every session and makes every prompt shorter and more precise.
Configuring Claude Code with CLAUDE.md
A practical guide to configuring Claude Code with CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, covering file locations, what rules to include, how to organize rules for larger projects, and how to deploy organization-wide policy files.
Automating Entra ID Group Management with PowerShell
Introduction Managing groups in Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) through the Azure Portal works fine for a handful of changes, but quickly becomes tedious at scale. Whether you're onboarding a batch of new employees, restructuring departments, or cleaning up...
IT report automation with PowerShell
Most IT teams generate the same reports week after week: license usage, stale accounts, patch compliance, group membership changes. Done manually, these are tedious and easy to forget. Done with PowerShell and GitHub Actions, they run themselves on a schedule and land...
Azure infrastructure with Bicep and GitHub Actions
Introduction ARM templates have long been the go-to for declarative Azure infrastructure, but their verbose JSON syntax makes them painful to read and maintain. Bicep is Microsoft's answer: a cleaner domain-specific language that compiles down to ARM JSON. Pair it...
Building an MCP server for IT infrastructure
A walkthrough of building a Python MCP server that gives Claude live access to Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, and Defender for Endpoint, querying your infrastructure directly from the chat window.
