THE KNOWLEDGE BASE
Insights & ideas.
Notes on identity, infrastructure, and the systems connecting them.
Lessons from undocumented access: why ownership must be visible
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Lessons from a failed change: rollback is part of implementation
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Lessons from a full disk: capacity monitoring needs ownership
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Lessons from an authentication outage: start with time and DNS
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Backup restore testing: proving recovery instead of assuming it
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Server-room audit checklist: power, cooling, access, and documentation
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A server patch-management checklist for predictable maintenance
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SSO integration checklist for SAML and OpenID Connect applications
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Phishing-resistant MFA: planning a FIDO2 and passkey rollout
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Conditional Access rollout: moving safely from report-only to enforcement
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Domain Controller recovery: the plan to test before an emergency
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Active Directory health checks: a practical operating routine
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Physical server-room maintenance: protecting the infrastructure beneath the cloud
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Building an operational knowledge base that engineers use
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Zero Trust authentication: verify every access decision
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A server support playbook for faster, safer incident response
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Modernizing infrastructure without losing operational control
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Five DNS practices that prevent avoidable outages
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A practical path to hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra ID
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Designing SSO and MFA that people will actually use
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