Joel Macklow
@joelmacklow
CTO & Customer IT Strategist for @cloudservicesnz. Husband, Dad to three awesome kids. Blessed to live and work in Hawke's Bay, NZ
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Microsoft Defender now prevents threats on endpoints during an attack Predictive shielding in Defender not only responds instantly during an attack but also jumps ahead of attackers, predicting and preventing the next move before it happens with just-in-time hardening controls…
Every disaster recovery plan starts with two numbers: RTO and RPO. They define how much disruption your system can tolerate and what your recovery strategy must look like. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum amount of time your service can remain down after an…
MCKINSEY JUST DROPPED THEIR 2025 AI REPORT. HERE’S THE TLDR: 1/ 90% of companies “use AI,” but 67% are still stuck in pilot mode. Corporate AI theater is alive and well lol. 2/ 62% of orgs are experimenting with AI agents, 23% are scaling AI agents. Most are in tech and…
🛡️ Cloud Security 360° — Everything You Must Protect, Layer by Layer (From End User to Datacenter) 🔐
Security isn’t a feature - it’s a multi-layer strategy. Here’s how to defend your cloud from end-user to data center 👇👇 Miss one - and attackers will find it. 🚨
Security isn’t a feature - it’s a multi-layer strategy. Here’s how to defend your cloud from end-user to data center 👇👇 Miss one - and attackers will find it. 🚨
🚀 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Toast Notification Script v3 is here! I've completely REWRITTEN my popular Toast Notification Script from the ground up - now exclusively for Microsoft Intune! Perfect for: 📢 Weekly reminders 🔄 Pending reboot notifications 📱 Company Portal integration 🎯…
Our team moved from LastPass to self-hosted Vaultwarden. The breaking point: - LastPass had another breach - $6.5 per user per month - 15-person team = $1170 annually - Limited control over data - Compliance team wasn't happy Why Vaultwarden: - Open source Bitwarden server -…
Microsoft confirmed a bug in the October 2025 Update is causing BitLocker recovery on reboot. This issue affects Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 and even Windows 10. Mostly, business users are affected. If you don't have the BitLocker recovery key (always accessible via Microsoft…
Microsoft Intune September updates help IT admins: Hardware recovery for offline Intel vPro® devices Day-zero Apple OS compatibility PowerShell installer scripts for apps AI insights for Cloud PC optimization New capabilities for endpoint management workflows. Details:…
Have you seen? Microsoft just completely restructured their fundamental security guidance, and it's awesome! ✨ This guidance serves as a perfect starting point for those aiming to better protect their M365 tenants! As well as this, I've also written some guidance for you on how…
BREAKING: MIT just analyzed 300 AI deployments worth $40 billion & the results are devastating. Turns out, 95% of enterprise AI projects deliver zero measurable business impact. Here's what the data revealed: (hint: the pattern matches every major technology bubble we've seen)
This table in the Microsoft Digital Defense Report is always fascinating, these stats are taken from DART engagements and other IR teams, it shows the common issues seen across our customers. Brilliance in the basics isn't easy, but worth it. Full report - aka.ms/mddr
The next generation #OneDrive experience is here - 💙- file simplicity and Copilot innovation across #Microsoft365 techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-o…
According to the IC3 and the FBI, business email compromise (BEC) cost $43 billion between June 2016 and December 2021. Digital crimes expert Matt Lundy breaks down the BEC basics and explains how to protect your organization: msft.it/6012gAwe2 #ThreatIntelligence
For too long Incident Response has relied on industry experience, consultants, or 4000 page compliance frameworks that are too hard digest. I am going to fix this. I am writing a fully open-source "Awesome Incident Response guide". github.com/hevnsnt/Awesom…
speed.cloudflare.com is a free tool that allows you to measure the speed and consistency of your connection to the Internet. Check to see if the speed your ISP promised you is the speed you are getting, compare different ISPs and more. #BetterInternet
This will probably be useful to someone: github.com/franklesniak/R… A script to scan and repair NTFS permissions by adding local Administrators and the SYSTEM account with full control, as God intended 😅, safely and without steamrolling existing permissions. #PowerShell #sysadmin
If I were to start Data Science in 2023, - Harvard - Stanford - MIT - Microsoft - Google - IBM ❯ Python cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/ ❯ SQL online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-yd… ❯ Excel, PowerBI learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/training… ❯ R cognitiveclass.ai/courses/r-101 ❯ Mathematics…
.@Office365 Sometimes admins need to clean-up meetings on behalf of a user who's unavailable for some reason (like leaving the company). A cmdlet is available for this purpose, but maybe you didn't know about it. Now you do... office365itpros.com/2023/06/09/rem… #Microsoft365
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