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Azure DevOps: Use Entra ID Managed Identities in your pipelines

Will Francillette

Oct 306 min read

Azure DevOps: Use Entra ID Managed Identities in your pipelines

Apply best practices and use Entra ID Managed Identities for your Azure DevOps pipelines

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ADO: Resolve 404 (Not found) Error when using Azure DevOps Artifacts feed for your private PowerShell repositories

Will Francillette

Oct 72 min read

ADO: Resolve 404 (Not found) Error when using Azure DevOps Artifacts feed for your private PowerShell repositories

Install a PS module from a private Azure DevOps Artifacts feed and resolve Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found)

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Will Francillette

Sep 304 min read

MDE: Why and how to use Device Groups?

Why and how to create device groups in Microsoft Defender for Endpoints

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MDE: Identify and understand EDR conflict with your applications

Will Francillette

Mar 274 min read

MDE: Identify and understand EDR conflict with your applications

Identify and understand MDE EDR conflict with your applications

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Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Identity: Authentication

Will Francillette

Mar 710 min read

Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Identity: Authentication

Use Microsoft solutions to secure the authentication process as recommended by CISA Zero Trust model.

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Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Maturity Model

Will Francillette

Feb 93 min read

Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Maturity Model

CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Maturity Model

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Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Introduction

Will Francillette

Feb 22 min read

Implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Architecture: A Microsoft Approach - Introduction

Today, I want to start a new series on a topic that has a lot of misconception and have been misused for commercial gain. It's often...

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Connect to Advanced Hunting API with the Graph SDK PowerShell module

Will Francillette

Jan 143 min read

Connect to Advanced Hunting API with the Graph SDK PowerShell module

Microsoft Graph Security API simplified connection

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MDE: Keeping your Antivirus up to date - deep dive

Will Francillette

Jan 29 min read

MDE: Keeping your Antivirus up to date - deep dive

If you have a look at Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and Microsoft Zero Trust implementation guidance, you will...

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M365DSC: Conditional Access Monitoring Automation

Will Francillette

Nov 2, 202311 min read

M365DSC: Conditional Access Monitoring Automation

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M365DSC: Monitor Conditional Access Policy Configuration Drift with Microsoft Sentinel

Will Francillette

Aug 29, 20234 min read

M365DSC: Monitor Conditional Access Policy Configuration Drift with Microsoft Sentinel

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M365DSC: Use Azure Arc and Managed Identities to authenticate on-premises and 3rd party cloud

Will Francillette

Jun 14, 20233 min read

M365DSC: Use Azure Arc and Managed Identities to authenticate on-premises and 3rd party cloud

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M365DSC: Getting Started Part 3 - Plan, Design and Manage your Microsoft 365 workloads

Will Francillette

May 31, 20237 min read

M365DSC: Getting Started Part 3 - Plan, Design and Manage your Microsoft 365 workloads

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MDE: Windows disconnected environment - decision tree

Will Francillette

Apr 5, 20233 min read

MDE: Windows disconnected environment - decision tree

It has always been challenging to deploy MDE in a disconnected environment i.e. behind a proxy. Thankfully, Microsoft and Brian Baldock...

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M365DSC: Getting Started Part 2: Installation, authentication and export configuration

Will Francillette

Mar 14, 20234 min read

M365DSC: Getting Started Part 2: Installation, authentication and export configuration

M365DSC: Getting started - installation, authentication and first export

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M365DSC: Getting Started Part 1- Desired State Configuration

Will Francillette

Feb 26, 20234 min read

M365DSC: Getting Started Part 1- Desired State Configuration

M365DSC series: getting started - Desired State Configuration introduction

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Will Francillette

Feb 16, 20233 min read

Graph SDK: Permissions

This blog is the part 3 of the serie: getting started with the PowerShell Graph SDK After installing and authenticating to the module we...

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Will Francillette

Jan 18, 20232 min read

MDI: PowerShell Configuration Checker

Defender for Identity is a solution that monitor your on-premises Active Directory Domain Services signals to identify, detect, and...

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Will Francillette

Dec 26, 20223 min read

Intune: Custom BitLocker Assessment

Intune allows you to create Custom Compliance policies, to configure additional assessments or having more controls over existing...

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Will Francillette

Dec 22, 20222 min read

Graph SDK: Authentication

It's always been a challenge to connect to the Graph API and manage your token. One of my preferred benefits of the Graph SDK is the...

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About Me

I am a Microsoft Solutions Architect specialized in Microsoft 365, Entra and Azure security products at Threatscape.

I love learning, blogging and coding. My interests are very diverse and span across architecture, security, cloud engineering, automation, DevOps and PowerShell.

I own as of today 17x (and counting) Microsoft certifications and have worked in IT across multiple and diverse industries for over 15 years.