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.
8 Ways IT Pros Can Use Claude Every Day
You have probably used Claude to write a script or two. But most senior IT professionals are using maybe 10% of what it can do for them on a daily basis. This is a practical list of high-value use cases — things you can try today, not theoretical future...
Automated Azure Alert Triage
Azure Monitor can generate hundreds of alerts per day in a busy environment — many of them repetitive, low-priority, or duplicates of each other. Feeding those alerts into Claude via a Logic App workflow lets you automatically triage them, group related issues, and...
Articles
- Passwordless GitHub Actions to Azure with Federation
- Real-time Entra ID Break-glass Sign-in Alerts (Part 2)
- Real-time Entra ID Group Alerts with Azure Functions (Part 1)
- End-to-End User Offboarding with Microsoft Graph PowerShell
- Automating Intune Win32 App Packaging with GitHub Actions
- Cleaning Up Stale Entra ID Devices with Microsoft Graph PowerShell