by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 23, 2026 | Cloud, General, PowerShell
Check the beginning of the story here. By 2005, things were changing quickly. DesktopStandard was acquired by Microsoft, and I went from watching the future unfold from the outside to helping build it from the inside. Walking into Microsoft felt like stepping onto a...
by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 20, 2026 | Cloud, Windows Intune
Tattooing has been part of Windows configuration management for decades. In the Group Policy world, tattooing occurred when a policy wrote a value but didn’t remove it when the policy no longer applied. The result was familiar to anyone who has supported Windows...
by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 15, 2026 | General
In the early 2000s, Windows administration was a patchwork of tools that never quite agreed with each other. MMC snap‑ins behaved like they were built by different teams on different planets. VBScript was powerful but brittle. Command‑line tools spoke in wildly...
