Friday, April 10, 2026

Which AI Systems Are Actually Using a Local NPU?

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There's a lot of marketing noise around NPUs right now — every new laptop seems to boast one and I was wondering how much attention shou...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

The Second Connector Pattern — Writing otherMails to Hybrid Users in Entra ID

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Cloud Sync cannot write  otherMails  — but a second provisioning connector scoped to existing accounts can. Here is the architecture, the at...

Soft-delete for Entra ID groups: what changed and when

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Microsoft Entra ID · Identity & Access Management If you've ever accidentally deleted a security group in Microsoft Ent...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Azure AD Connect - DataValidationFailed

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Working with the new Azure AD Lifecycle Workflows I ran into a problem syncing the employee's start (employeeHireDate) and leave date (e...
Monday, May 23, 2022

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 Default Certificate Mapping in Windows has been changed with Windows Updates May 10th, 2022 Microsoft made a significant change with the Ma...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

SQL Server Linked Server error - OLE DB provider "ADSDSOObject" for linked server "ADSI" reported an error.

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I ran into this problem while trying to set up a linked server from SQL server(SQL 2016 Developer Edition) to Active Directory. More informa...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Fun with bitmask math

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I had fun today working on queries against Active Directory userAccountControl. In cases like mine where you have 514 and 546 for enabled an...