Infrastructure Architect and Information Technology and Services Consultant focused on Microsoft Enterprise Technology.
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Richard Tinker retweeted
A guy used AirPods Pro 2 for 2 years.
He pressed play. He pressed pause. He answered calls. He switched to noise cancellation on planes.
That was it. 4 features. On a $249 device with 30+.
His coworker a sound engineer at a recording studio borrowed them for 10 minutes at lunch and handed them back with a look.
"You've never opened Settings once, have you? Apple built 9 features into these that change how you work, sleep, hear, travel, and take calls. They're buried 3 menus deep and never mentioned in any ad. You've been wearing the world's most underused productivity tool."
He spent 11 minutes in Settings that evening.
His calls got clearer. His focus got deeper. He hasn't touched his phone during a workout since.
Here's every feature his coworker showed him 🧵
Richard Tinker retweeted
Stop clicking through 15 menus just to find one Azure blade
🛑55,000+ Microsoft pros use cmd.ms to skip the portal fatigue.
I just launched a massive V2 rewrite:
⚡️ 100% keyboard-driven
🎯 Jump to any blade instantly
🔍 New Purview + Security commands
Richard Tinker retweeted
Here's another of my posts about Farage that's being suppressed by the X algorithm. It's got 91 reposts but only 998 views.
Richard Tinker retweeted
Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs. Walker Smith who worked for retailer for 17 yrs was sacked after stopping a repeat offender.
Come on @waitrose this doesn't seem right?
Re-post to get Walker his job back!
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Richard Tinker retweeted
Wow, this is so cool 😍!
Jukka Niiranen just shared this infographic he generated based of the Entra Chat podcast episode with @WelkasWorld and @DanielatOCN
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Richard Tinker retweeted
Microsoft is auto-enabling passkeys in March 2026.
No opt-in required.
If you don’t configure it first… your tenant gets the defaults.
I sat down with Microsofty Security MVPs @DanielatOCN and @WelkasWorld.
We break down:
1️⃣ Passkey Profiles Are Becoming the Default
→ Starting March 2026:
→ Passkey profiles will be auto-enabled
→ Tenants that haven’t configured profiles will be migrated
→ Registration campaigns will shift from Authenticator-first to passkey-first
2️⃣ Source of Authority Conversion Is Finally GA
For years, admins used messy delete-and-restore hacks to convert synced users to cloud-only.
→ Now it’s officially supported.
→ You can convert individual users from on-premises authority to cloud-managed — without breaking hybrid entirely.
Why this matters:
→ Easier M&A transitions
→ Full access to Entra ID Governance features
→ Cleaner lifecycle management
→ Reduced dependency on legacy infrastructure
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3️⃣ App Registration Deactivation (A Quietly Powerful Feature)
→ Microsoft added the ability to deactivate app registrations.
→ Instead of deleting an app (and losing configuration), you can now:
→ Immediately stop token issuance
→ Preserve metadata and permissions
→ Investigate safely
→ For incident response scenarios — especially in multi-tenant or MSP environments — this is a big step forward.
4️⃣ Conditional Access Behavior Changes
→ There’s also a change impacting tenants with Conditional Access policies targeting “All resources” but excluding certain apps.
→ Previously, certain minimal-scope apps could bypass enforcement under specific conditions.
→ That loophole is closing.
5️⃣ Sync Security Hardening (Hard Match Protection)
→ Microsoft is adding additional validation to protect against malicious hard matching scenarios in hybrid environments.
→ This reduces the risk of identity takeover via manipulated on-prem objects.
→ It’s automatic — but important to understand if you manage hybrid identity or MSP transitions.
Watch the full episode for the deep technical breakdown and real-world implications.
entra.news/p/microsoft-is-au…
Richard Tinker retweeted
The X algorithm is suppressing this post about Farage and Gill.
On September 16th, 2014, Farage and Nathan Gill made speeches in the European Parliament parroting the same Russian propaganda lies.
Could this have just been a coincidence? It seems unlikely.
Farage and Gill both used the expression "poking the Russian bear."
They both parroted Russian lies about NATO and EU expansion.
They both called Ukraine "The Ukraine," a term which refers back to the old Slavic word for borderland, which Russia uses to deny Ukraine's nationhood. Russia's basic justification for invading Ukraine, is that it is not a real country; that it is a fake nation, whose deluded Nazified inhabitants fail to recognise that they are Russian.
Farage and Gill both repeated the Russian claim that the real threat was Muslim extremism, a claim that Putin had very effectively used to distract Western leaders from Russian aggression and its hybrid war against the West. It's a tactic that Russia is still using via its Western tools.
The Reform UK leadership tried to pretend Farage had nothing more than a passing acquaintance with Gill, a claim that was soon exposed as a lie.
The Kremlin promoted Farage on Russian TV, doubtless hoping he would be of useful service to Russia. He has undoubtedly more than fulfilled their expectations.
Farage poses as a patriot, but the opposite is true. He has acted as the vehicle of hostile foreign interference in our politics.
Richard Tinker retweeted
For those who are interested in the context on why these accounts are necessary, so you avoid enabling an MFA method that defeats the purpose of these accounts, a little trip down a painful memory lane for many of us can provide some context. There was a major Microsoft MFA outage in the fall of 2019, lasting for 2.5 hours and primarily affecting users in North America. There was a 14-hour outage about 12 months prior. Microsoft started recommending breakglass accounts after the first outage so that Admins could use these accounts to go in and disable MFA temporarily if they needed to restore service during an outage. So while it may be safe to use a FIDO2 key, it is not clear if this would bypass the root causes of what led to the prior two outages. Perhaps someone from Microsoft product engineering could provide guidance here.
@maryjofoley covered both outages here: zdnet.com/article/multifacto…
Good overview of hardware security keys.
Out with the password, in with the passkey: a huge leap forward for online protection
Click the image to read the full article
Partner Content by @Yubico
Excellent post on common useful CA policies.
Today, I published part 2 on how to prepare, configure and implement five more of my favorite conditional access policies. This will be my last post until December, because I'll be traveling in Japan for four weeks.
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#ConditionalAccess #MicrosoftEntra
Richard Tinker retweeted
Today we remember the great Jim Smith and some of our finest moments under his management on what would have been his 83rd birthday 🦅🖤🤍
#DCFC
Richard Tinker retweeted
Just got refused by two taxi drivers at Sydney airport cos I wanted to go somewhere nearby. First guy even told me to order an Uber. I had to withdraw cash and offer to pay a third guy extra to take me. Is this normal? Or legal?
I’m the latest Microsoft Digital Defence Report one crucial point stands out: the vast majority of successful cyberattacks could be thwarted by implementing a few fundamental security hygiene practices.
🚨 The latest Microsoft Digital Defence Report came out and it is a sobering read.
In April this year a spike saw Microsoft Entra blocking 11,000 attacks per second!
Two things you can do to protect your org from these attacks.
✅ Turn on MFA (everywhere, no exclusions)
✅ Turn on risk based conditional access policies
Start planning the move to passwordless and phishing resistant sign ins like Windows Hello for Business.
Read the full report at aka.ms/MDDR
Learn about deploying conditional access policies at learn.microsoft.com/en-us/az…
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ALT Password based attacks spiked in 2023 After a notable increase in the number of password-based attacks per month in October 2022, the number skyrocketed in 2023. In April, there were 11,000 attacks per second, a tenfold increase from the same time last year.
Richard Tinker retweeted
We're a public company on @Nasdaq! 🎉
As we celebrate this exciting milestone, we'd like to thank you - our people, partners and the developer ecosystem - for supporting Arm's journey so far.
Here's to the future of computing built #onArm: bit.ly/3RmInfk
Richard Tinker retweeted
WARNING: Nice Football Tweet - short thread
In between not posting, I coach boys football. Last night, a 9yo girl rocks up to club training with Sam Kerr’s number drawn on (inspired by World Cup, never played before). Now these boys….
Richard Tinker retweeted
Malaga fans were so annoyed at the club not making a Summer signing that they picked a random person at the airport to greet as a new player… 😂
Richard Tinker retweeted
The Japanese multiplication method makes everybody feel "I wish they taught math like this in school."
It's not just a cute visual tool: it illuminates how and why long multiplication works.
Here is the full story.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
現行の日本教育では、この掛け算の方法は教えていません。以前この方法が日本でもインド式掛け算と話題になっていました。実際はどこの国で教えられているのでしょうか？
nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/14…
Current Japanese education does not teach this method of multiplication. This method was once talked about as Indian-style multiplication in Japan. Where is it actually taught?
nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/14…
Richard Tinker retweeted
Drill to improve Speed Dribbling :
🟡Players race with a ball around the goal
🟡They must only shoot when they reach the white cone
🟡Then they sprint to tag in their teammates
#soccertraining #footballkids #drill