Thinking out loud.
/* Infrastructure, cloud, identity, operations. 20 years of notes. */
Restarting Mycelium
I finally have time to return to Mycelium, revisit the thinking behind the original idea, and rebuild its architecture model with more care.
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Tickety: An AI Sidekick for ITSM
An old friend asked for an AI sidekick for ITSM. A morning prototype turned into an open-source project, with a live demo now online.
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Two Years of AI-Assisted Infrastructure
What I've actually shipped with AI tooling since 2022. No futures, no predictions — just results.
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Twenty Years of Servers: What Actually Matters
Looking back on two decades in IT infrastructure. The technology changed completely. The principles didn't.
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What a Tenant Migration Actually Looks Like
Not the architecture slide. The part where the migration tool goes down at 11pm and you're alone, holding the AD cutover together with PowerShell and a checklist.
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In Defence of Cloud: A Response to the Repatriation Narrative
The 'cloud is too expensive' crowd has a point — if you lift-and-shift and walk away. Here's the other side.
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Migrating to PowerShell 7 Was Painful and Worth It
PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7 can coexist, but that doesn't mean it's easy. Here's what broke and why we did it anyway.
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Moving VMware to Azure Without Losing Your Mind
Practical notes from a real VMware-to-Azure migration. What the planning templates miss, and why the landing zone decision matters more than you think.
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Post-Migration Cost Optimisation Is a Phase, Not an Afterthought
The migration is complete. The servers are in Azure. Nobody is celebrating, because the first bill just arrived.
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M365 Governance Without the Consultant Speak
Teams sprawl, SharePoint chaos, and the group expiration policy that saved us from ourselves.
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Azure AD in the Real World
Identity is the new perimeter, but most organisations still treat it like an afterthought. Practical Azure AD patterns from the trenches.
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How I Actually Use AI in Infrastructure Work
No frameworks, no 'harnesses,' no multi-agent architectures. Just a sysadmin using LLMs to get things done faster.
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Security Baselines Are Boring and That's the Point
Good security isn't exciting. It's methodical. Baseline configuration, regular auditing, and the discipline to fix things that aren't broken yet.
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Infrastructure in the Year Everyone Went Home
When 500 people suddenly need to work from home, 'VPN capacity' stops being a theoretical number.
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The Incident That Changed How I Think About Monitoring
Our monitoring dashboard was all green. Production was down. They were both true.
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PowerShell Is Still the Best Tool Nobody Talks About
Bash gets the cool factor. Ansible gets the conference talks. But PowerShell has been quietly getting things done in Windows environments for 15 years.
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Exchange Online Migration: What the Documentation Won't Tell You
Migrating from on-prem Exchange to Exchange Online is well-documented. The parts between the documentation steps are where things go wrong.
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Why I Still Run Hyper-V in 2019
Everyone's talking about cloud, but on-prem virtualization isn't dead. Here's where Hyper-V still makes sense.
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Azure Costs Don't Manage Themselves
The most common Azure mistake isn't architecture. It's assuming that cloud is cheaper without active cost management.
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Active Directory Hygiene Is Not Optional
Years of accumulated AD cruft don't fix themselves. A practical guide to cleaning up before the auditors arrive.
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Backup Is Not Disaster Recovery
Most organisations confuse backup with DR. They're different problems with different solutions. Here's how I think about both.
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The Server That Ran for Four Years Without Anyone Knowing
Every data centre has ghosts. Here's one I found.
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