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Issue #3 · 29 June 2026

🔗 Community Picks

25 hand-picked posts from MVPs and engineers on LinkedIn this week · Updated every Tuesday

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Entra ID Arulkumar Thiraviam
Why IT Support Pros Need Both Entra ID & Okta
Modern IT support requires fluency in both platforms. Entra ID leads for Microsoft 365/Azure; Okta excels at cross-platform SaaS SSO.
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Entra ID Karan Mehra
Microsoft Entra ID: What, Why, When, Where, How
Comprehensive breakdown of Entra ID as a cloud identity platform — OAuth2, OIDC, JWT tokens, security benefits and trade-offs for enterprise apps.
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Security Ernest N Darkwah
Understanding SAML and Its Role in Single Sign-On
SAML enables seamless SSO by letting a central IdP authenticate users across multiple apps — reducing password fatigue and centralising MFA enforcement.
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Community Andy Malone MVP
Nuremberg Tech Days 2026 — 3 Days of Deep Dives
Microsoft MVP Andy Malone shares excitement for Nuremberg Tech Days 2026 — three days of technical deep-dive sessions this October.
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DevOps Vishwanath Chinta
Terraform File Structure — Build Infrastructure That Scales
Organise Terraform with main.tf, variables.tf, outputs.tf and environment directories. Use remote state backends and never hardcode secrets.
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Security Abisha Pandey
SailPoint IAM Roadmap — Start with Fundamentals First
Structured path covering identities, access governance, lifecycle management and certifications — before jumping into SailPoint tooling.
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Security Sunnykumar K.
IAM Career Progression Roadmap — Help Desk to Principal Architect
Five-year IAM career path: skill development, salary ranges and key certifications at each level from help desk to senior architect.
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Windows System Center Dudes
Secure Boot Certificate Update Deadline — June 2026
Microsoft requires orgs to update Secure Boot certificates before June 2026 expiry. Guide covers Intune, Group Policy and ConfigMgr methods.
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AI Pulse Ranveer Shahi
Microsoft AI Agent Skills — Free Upskilling Initiative
Microsoft launches Agentic AI applied skills training with credentials and a sweepstakes. Free opportunity to build AI agent expertise.
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Security Raghavendra Pandey
Access Certification Lifecycle in SailPoint — End to End
Planning to audit support: campaign monitoring, revocation and reviewer management. Access certification is the cornerstone of identity governance.
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Intune Eslam Amer
How to Wrap & Deploy a Win32 App in Intune
Step-by-step guide: prep source files, run the Win32 Content Prep Tool, generate .intunewin, then configure detection rules and assignments.
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Intune Anuradha Kumari
SCCM to Intune Migration — 6-Phase Master Guide
Assessment through decommission: six-phase migration path from on-prem SCCM to cloud-native Intune using co-management and Autopilot.
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Intune Faisal Mukhtar
Intune Fundamentals: MDM vs MAM Explained
Device enrollment registers the device, MDM manages it, MAM protects apps. Core architecture, enrollment methods and app deployment in one visual.
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Entra ID Mohit Singh
Entra Connect Sync Is Being Retired — What You Need to Know
Microsoft is retiring on-prem Entra Connect Sync in favour of cloud-native Entra Cloud Sync. Tenant notifications via M365 Message Center begin July 2026.
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M365 Chirag G.
Microsoft 365 E7: Enterprise AI Governance & Security
M365 E7 (from May 2026) bundles Copilot, Agent 365 and security. Successful AI adoption requires governance and identity foundations first.
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M365 Gautam Verma
10 Microsoft 365 Tasks Every IT Admin Should Automate
From user provisioning to compliance reporting: ten M365 processes worth automating to cut errors and free up admin time.
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AI Pulse G M Faruk Ahmed
Anthropic Releases 13 Free AI Courses with Certificates
Covers fundamentals through agents, APIs and enterprise deployments. Free for developers, students, educators and business owners.
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M365 Nand Kishore Mahesh Sharma
Microsoft Teams Admin Cheat Sheet
Essential Teams admin guide: user access, meetings, guest access, DLP, voice and PowerShell commands. Includes security and compliance tips.
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M365 Microsoft Learn
Teams Desktop Client Version Release Alerts
New Teams admin feature: get notified when a new desktop client version rolls out in your tenant — via Teams channel or webhook.
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M365 Arulkumar Thiraviam
SharePoint & Teams Administration Best Practices
Site management, permissions, retention policies and lifecycle governance for SharePoint and Teams — including DLP and Conditional Access controls.
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AI Pulse Marcel Broschk
Governing Claude API Usage Inside an M365 Enterprise Tenant
M365 MCP connector architecture, data residency considerations and essential controls: Entra ID consent, Conditional Access and DLP for Claude API governance.
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M365 Sarah St John
OneDrive, Teams or SharePoint — Where Should Files Go?
Three questions to decide: who's working on it, who needs it, and for how long. Proper placement enables governance and Copilot AI readiness.
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M365 Faizan Aslam Jan
Enhance SharePoint Governance with SAM & Microsoft Purview
SharePoint Advanced Management + Purview: site lifecycle automation, inactive site detection, access reviews and compliance integration at scale.
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AI Pulse Anthropic
Anthropic's Internal Claude Tag Tool Writes 65% of Product Code
Claude Tag operates autonomously under its own account, remembers team feedback and works asynchronously — shifting AI from tool to persistent team member.
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Entra ID Brian Veldman
Cross-Tenant Microsoft Graph Access via Federated Identity
Entra Workload Identity Federation enables secretless authentication between managed identities and multi-tenant apps — no credentials stored.
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