I went into the SC-900 confident. Working at an MSP, I use Entra and Defender every day. What I didn’t expect was how much the exam would reveal about the edges of what I actually knew.
I recently passed the Microsoft Applied Skills credential for Entra identities and access. This one stood out for a simple reason — it felt like real work.
A homelab gives you something you rarely get on the job — a place to learn without fear. It is where theory stops being abstract and becomes instinct.
Being a better sysadmin isn’t mainly about learning more tools — it’s about building habits that make you consistent under pressure.
A day in the life of an MSP tech is way more than reading tickets and closing them out. The ticket is often a symptom — not the diagnosis.
Hardware planning now requires more flexibility than it used to. Sometimes it’s the simple stuff — like RAM and hard drives — that ends up changing the whole game.
Sometimes the win isn’t a successful install. Sometimes the win is saving a client from spending money on a solution that sounds good on paper — but doesn’t hold up in the real world.
A walkthrough of configuring a Conditional Access Policy in Microsoft Entra to require compliant devices when accessing sensitive data via Authentication Context.