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• HR-driven provisioning: hires and exits as data, not email

  Aug 11, 2026·7 min read

  IT is always the last to know. How I wired hires and departures to the HR system with a 20-line export diff, and why the trigger beats any script.

  • automation
  • onboarding
  • offboarding
  • powershell
  • hr

• When to delete a former employee's account (and how)

  Jul 28, 2026·7 min read

  A disabled account should not sit forever. My 90-day grace period, the pre-delete checklist, and the retention questions to answer before anything is gone.

  • offboarding
  • active-directory
  • powershell
  • records-retention

• Revoke access everywhere: the offboarding ghost hunt

  Jul 14, 2026·8 min read

  Disabling the account is step one. Here are the 7 places a user's access hides, the inventory that finds them, and the stale-login report that catches misses.

  • powershell
  • active-directory
  • offboarding
  • security
  • microsoft-365

• Automating offboarding in a one-person IT shop

  Jul 1, 2026·9 min read

  Onboarding gets the attention. The account you forget to disable is the real risk. Here's my one-person-shop offboarding flow, and the 3 steps I keep manual.

  • powershell
  • active-directory
  • offboarding
  • security
  • microsoft-365