The 2026 Enterprise Guide for Managing Microsoft Access

If your business is still relying on Microsoft Access for critical functions, you're doing it wrong. Use a real database, or find a better place to store and retrieve data. Uninstall it. Tune in here for more expert tips and advice. 🙂

https://skatterbrainz.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/the-2026-enterprise-guide-for-managing-microsoft-access/

Grouping and Filtering Users and Devices: A Practical Guide

Why? Because it seems I'm getting an increased number of client requests for help with this stuff. And by "this stuff" I mean how to target resources (users, devices, mostly) for various things like policies, deployments, inventory, audit logging, sign-in activity, etc. Effectively organizing users and devices is foundational to managing policies, deployments, and security at scale. Whether you're targeting Microsoft Intune policies, Conditional Access rules, or software deployments, how you group objects determines your flexibility and maintainability.

https://skatterbrainz.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/grouping-and-filtering-users-and-devices-a-practical-guide/

3 Easy PowerShell Scripting Tips for Coding Masochists

Tip: Read the 'Important Notes' section, because these are notes that are important. 1. Optimize Authentication Requests What: Check for Existing Authentication Contexts before Repeating How: Use Connection Context output Why: Avoid repetitive, unnecessary authentication Where: Your script code, Azure Automation Runbooks When: Right now Most API's provide return data or establish a "context" once you complete the authentication process. When using cmdlets like…

https://skatterbrainz.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/3-easy-powershell-scripting-tips-for-coding-masochists/

When Santa brings you a work request: Searching GitHub Repos and Gists for Text Patterns with PowerShell

This is my feeble attempt at blogging again. Now that blogging is out of fashion and we trust AI to tell us what to think, drink and eat, it's probably as good a time to do it as ever. So, this was prompted (pardon the pun) by a need to find any and all references in my sprawling warehouse of festering code (GitHub) that mention "Invoke-WebRequest" which might be used on a Windows machine.

https://skatterbrainz.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/when-santa-brings-you-a-work-request-searching-github-repos-and-gists-for-text-patterns-with-powershell/