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Systems Engineer who also enjoys metalcore 👨🏻‍💻🤘🏻🎵 Azure | Azure AD | Microsoft 365 | Office 365 | PowerShell

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Joined March 2020
TIL: Mermaid Mermaid is a diagram-as-code tool that dynamically generates diagrams from code. It supports multiple diagram types such as sequence diagrams, flowcharts, and more. mermaid.js.org/
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Investing the time to learn PowerShell in 2019 was one of the best decisions I ever made. It’s still returning dividends 4 years later. Thank you @ManningBooks @concentrateddon @JeffHicks for the Month of Lunches books. 📚🙌🏻
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Today I wrote functions to interact with my teams’ web APIs to manipulate objects in a database in just a few hours. Prior to learning PowerShell, it would have taken me a day or more to manually click the changes to existence in the web UI.
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I’m excited for Season 2 of @EngAdvicePod. 🙌🏻 I highly recommend it for anyone working in tech.
Looking for Podcast Sponsors for @EngAdvicePod. DM me if you're interested. This week, @ramannoodlez, @keyurhindocha, @VicVijayakumar, @LBacaj and I started to record the second season of our podcast and we are looking for sponsors to help us to take it to the next level.
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The last 19 months have been filled with tremendous career and personal growth for me. I went from landing my dream job in May 2021 to receiving a promotion in December 2022. To say I’m thankful would be an understatement.
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David C. Bird retweeted
Let’s say you need to download all the devices in your tenant and you have over 1 million devices. At first you try running this command and you increase the page size to 999 instead of the default 100 to make it go faster. It runs for a long time but errors out midway ☹️ 1/2
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Wasted 10 minutes trying to figure out how to use Excel to count distinct values in a column before I gave up and just used PowerShell. Import-Csv -Path ‘.\file.csv’ | Select-Object -Property ‘ColumnName’ -Unique | Measure-Object. 10 seconds. Done.
If you’re an engineer or working in tech, please check out @EngAdvicePod and subscribe to their YouTube channel so they can continue making awesome engineering advice podcasts.
We just crossed 500 subscribers to our @EngAdvicePod YouTube Channel. Help us to get to 1000 subscribers so that we can start to monetize to continue to record season 2 of the show. 🔔 Link: youtube.com/channel/UCnJRpkk… 🙏🔥🚀
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Dentist: “did you floss”? Me: “Do you use unique passwords and MFA where possible”?
This month I’m celebrating my 1-year anniversary working in my dream job. 🥳🎉
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This is so useful and cool!
Another week, another hackathon project 😉 A few of us from the Identity team got together and hacked up a Chrome extension called Graph X-Ray. The premise: What if you could record & download a script of the actions you performed in the Azure AD Portal? Find out below... 🧵👇🏾
TIL: An excellent new source for salary information thanks to @EngAdvicePod. It’s the H-1B visa salary database. h1bdata.info
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1/ If you're looking to learn #AzureAD, you can sign up for a #M365 Developer Account, for FREE, and get access to a tenant with 25 M365 E5 licenses available. #Azure #AD #Identity #infosec developer.microsoft.com/en-u…
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Today was a very rewarding and validating day in my career. I spent the last few months developing and testing two PowerShell scripts to uplift an existing business process to a newer version, and today I completed the production migration with zero issues or interruptions.
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I owe a huge thank you to @concentrateddon, @JeffHicks, and @ManningBooks. The PowerShell Month of Lunches books literally changed my career and my life.
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I also owe a huge thank you to the @PSHOrg community, user groups, and all the amazing people who continue to make PowerShell something special.
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