Purview & Compliance
Purview audit log: why events are late, missing or already gone
8 min
Notes from real tenants
Every post, filtered by topic: Intune and Copilot error fixes, Azure cost explainers, .NET guides and homelab notes. Written after the thing was actually fixed, in a tenant with real users in it.
Intune & Endpoint
Intune troubleshooting: what to check first, by symptom
16 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune filters: what breaks when you swap groups for filters
8 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune firewall rules: why they silently fail to apply
8 min
Intune & Endpoint
SCEP vs PKCS Intune: which certificate profile to use, and where each breaks
13 min
Entra ID & Identity
Entra PIM activation delay: the role is active, access is not
Microsoft says PIM creates the active assignment within seconds. The wait you are measuring is the access token you already hold, and in a CAE session that token can live for up to 28 hours.
7 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune compliance policy: why the status still lags after a sync
10 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune remediation script: the licence gate and exit codes
10 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune security baseline conflicts: where the second profile comes from
10 min
Intune & Endpoint
Intune Device Query: licence, limits and failure modes
8 min
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