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Entra ID has this thing called “flexible Federated Identity Credentials”, or “flexible FIC” for short. You might be confused a bit by the very long name, but behind the term is a really powerful capability that I hope to cover well enough in this post.

What’s a start to the year without some changes. Well, at least for me and my family the change meant a switch of teams and organizations within Microsoft.

An outline of how you can extract icons from Windows binaries and dump them into a local folder.

The Microsoft Identity Authentication SDK team is looking for a TPM to help us corral developer security processes at Microsoft.

I was recently setting up a new Windows machine for work - a desktop machine that actually has enough storage for me to run local SQL experimentation. I diligently followed the steps to create a bootable Windows 11 Enterprise USB, got the disks properly formatted, installed the OS, and tried to start customizing everything to my liking only to hit a brick wall.

If you are building software on Azure, you’ve likely stumbled across the concept of managed identity. In layman’s terms, a managed identity is an automatically provisioned and managed identity resource that can be used to access other resources in Azure.

I alluded to this a few days ago, but I have a new role. Starting today, I am back at Microsoft.

We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Windows to succeed - it’s a great OS that, despite it’s naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues.

Starting today, I am officially part of the Microsoft Developer Relations organization, helping scale the developer outreach efforts.

This is the story about how I ended up following the product manager career path.