Over $2 million in documented cost savings delivered for past employers.
Category: Achievements
achievements
AppLocker Recovery
In under 2 hours, I determined the root cause and developed a solution for an unexpected AppLocker issue that was bricking 100+ devices. I solved this faster than Microsoft’s official level 2 / level 3 support. The cause was a conflict between AppLocker and an improperly tested browser control mechanism that a coworker pushed out…
Azure Conditional Access Error
Fixed a conditional access error* caused by security enabling an untested conditional access policy on the user device level and the Entra Connect sync user for one of the domains having insufficient privileges, caused by the msds-KeyCredentialLink attribute to not being writable. The security team had enabled Entra Seamless SSO and had blocked unmanaged devices…
Fixed Hybrid Intune Sync on 40 PCs
Fixed an Entra Connect Sync issue that was preventing 40 machines from enrolling into Intune properly. The issue was caused by the Sync service user having insufficient permissions to modify the msds-ConsistencyGUID AD attribute. Others had spent over 18 hours troubleshooting with no progress CONTINUE THE STORY HERE to find out how I solved this problem…
Rescued Migration of Critical DB server
Rescued the stalled migration of a critical physical on-prem database server after the MAC addressed changed which caused the migration agent to crash due to its utilization of the MAC address to generate the UUID. MAC Address change was caused the active NIC on a bonded interface changing from the secondary back to primary. FIND…
Cloud Migration
Resolved complex networking issues between the on-prem and multi account AWS environment during the second phase of an on-prem to AWS migration during a very restricted time window, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud.
Network Share Reporting
Created a reporting script to show user & group access to folders & shares. Had developed plans to enable the script to automatically run and automatically send the results in an email, when triggered by receiving an email from the reporting team.
Entra Connect Sev2
Resolved a Sev2 data sync issue for Entra Connect in less than a day. The problem was caused by the security team having excessive permissions to the production Entra / Intune environment and they then consequently enabled policies that killed multiple Entra connected services due to improper permission scoping.
15 min Sev1 Resolution
NOC Team reported a Sev1 data leak from a vendor. So I recognized the impact and jumped on the task, despite having ZERO experience managing that aspect of AWS file access and permission. I was able to lock down the inappropriate access in less than 15 minute. READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Intune Environment Prep
Created policies and Intune apps to enable the automatic distribution of key software such as the security suite, teams, Chrome, etc. FIND THE WHOLE STORY HERE