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Hello everyone! Thank you for stopping by my blog. I know it's a bit barebones right now, but I plan to captivate you with awesome tech news and insights into Microsoft 365, Azure, and other technical knowledge troves in the future.

For those unfamiliar with me, I'm Colby, a Systems Administrator. My work primarily involves Microsoft 365 and Azure, although I also delve into other IT-related areas. It's a mixed bag of different topics, which I hope to share with you on my technical journey.

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PIM-IT Ver 0.0.2: More features and Activation Packages

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a great long weekend so far, while I type this I am in my bed with my dog and pushing the latest updates to my GitHub. It's been a minute since I last posted but I wanted to take the opportunity to give you all an update on the PIM-IT project, the PowerShell tool for streamlining Privileged Identity Management. Consider this if you will a changelog of sorts, in which I will talk about the latest features, some takeaways, and what is next in the project. Let's get started! PIM-IT Ver 0.0.2 Latest Features The first major update is the ability to deactivate and update roles. This is a major step towards giving users full control of managing PIM roles from initial activation to deactivation. Updating PIM Roles To update a PIM role, the user selects option "U" from the menu, which will then display currently active roles: From here, the user will select the PIM role they wish to update, which will allow them to adjust the duration to...
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Introduction to the PIM-IT Project: Version 0.0.1

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since my last update, but I’m back this Easter weekend to share some exciting work happening behind the scenes. One of my latest projects is PIM-IT , an open-source tool designed to simplify Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra . What is PIM? Privileged Identity Management (PIM) helps manage access to roles within Microsoft Entra, ensuring just-in-time access to privileged roles like User Administrator . PIM enhances security by granting access only when needed, for a limited time, under admin-defined conditions. It also helps prevent unauthorized privilege escalation and provides a valuable audit trail. When used correctly, PIM is a powerful tool for managing roles and permissions efficiently. Why PIM-IT? While PIM strengthens security, the process of assigning roles can be tedious—logging into the Azure portal, finding eligible roles, assigning hours, providing justification, and waiting for activation. Now, imagine doing this dai...
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Making a SharePoint Knowledge Base Part One: Getting Our Ducks in a Row

Howdy everyone, it's great to be back again for another post! As a matter of fact, this is our very first post on this blog. Amazing! For this post, I am going to help you create an intuitive Knowledge Base in SharePoint that your department or company can use as a whole. We'll also use Power Automate to notify us when our team adds to our Knowledge Base. So with this in mind, let's get started! Why a Knowledge Base? This idea comes from a recent SharePoint migration I did in my own workplace. I wanted to create a centralized resource for our team to find knowledge articles, troubleshooting steps, and guides. This helps us share knowledge across our team as well as with our end-users. For those of you who do not know what a Knowledge Base is, it is as simple as this: A centralized resource to share knowledge and provide self-help to users.  Now that you're privy to what it is, we can begin to build ourselves a Knowledge Base! We'll start with our foundational assets...
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