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Introducing the New PIMActivation Portal: Managed, Self-Hosted, and Mobile Ready
Today I want to share something I’ve been working on for a while now - a Progressive Web App (PWA) version of my PowerShell-based tool, PIMActivation! Back in October 2025 I released the first version of my PowerShell module PIMActivation, which I also wrote a blog post about that you can read here. The goal back then was to provide users with a faster PIM experience, including bulk activation across different types of PIM resources: Entra roles, Groups, and Azure Resources.
Sebastian F. Markdanner
May 187 min read


Break-Glass Accounts Done Right: Securing Emergency Access in Microsoft Entra
Emergencies happen every day. Most of the time, they happen to someone else. Until the day they happen to you - then what? We all know things can go wrong, but most organizations do not spend much time thinking about what happens when they lose access to their own environment. That is understandable right up until the moment a misconfiguration, outage or any other emergency turns it from a theoretical problem into a very real one. That is why emergency access matters. In this
Sebastian F. Markdanner
Apr 718 min read


Introducing M365IdentityPosture: Community-Driven Identity Reporting for Microsoft 365
Have you ever felt that the native reporting options in the Microsoft Cloud are lacking? Well, you’re not alone - let’s talk about it. Visibility into your Microsoft Cloud identity and security configurations has never been more important… or more fragmented. While Microsoft offers native reporting options for specific parts of our environments, they are often too narrow, incomplete, or difficult to use without significant additional processing. That gap led to the creation o
Sebastian F. Markdanner
Mar 168 min read


The Hidden Steps Microsoft Forgot to Document: Securing Azure App Service Authentication Behind Front Door with Private Link
Today I want to walk through how to configure Azure App Service Authentication when your App Service sits behind Azure Front Door and is accessed through a Private Link. On a dreadful day in october 2025, I received something that most IT people fear - a request from a client! The request included information from the client, that they were struggling with authentication on a Web App deployed behind Azure Front Door using Private Link. What looked like a straightforward setup
Sebastian F. Markdanner
Dec 2, 20257 min read
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