A comprehensive guide to best practices and common pitfalls when designing and implementing UniFi network infrastructure, with practical examples for each pattern and antipattern.

Essential Linux commands for troubleshooting disk space, syslog, and Azure Monitor Agent connectivity issues, updated for May 2025.

Thoughts on returning to blogging after a hiatus, how my return to hands-on technical work combined with the rise of LLMs has sparked a renewed enthusiasm for knowledge sharing and building things.

How to use Azure Monitor and KQL queries to analyse sign-ins affected by report-only conditional access policies in Azure AD.

A practical guide to using Azure Blob Storage as a reliable, highly-available location for hosting your internal PKI's CDP and AIA components.

Leveraging service desk systems to automate, track and schedule important security-related tasks like certificate renewals, password rotations, and domain registrations to ensure continuity regardless of staff turnover.

Using built-in Windows Firewall rules to prevent common malware and ransomware attacks by blocking network access for script hosts and command interpreters while still allowing internal network communication.

Creating a PowerShell function to generate memorable passwords based on the XKCD 'correcthorsebatterystaple' concept - a simple approach to generating random but memorable passwords using common words.

Learn more efficient ways to concatenate strings in PowerShell using expanding strings and the format operator instead of the traditional concatenation method.

A PowerShell function to read and parse Windows DHCP server logs for troubleshooting IP assignment issues across various VLANs.