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HR-driven provisioning: hires and exits as data, not email
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.
Microsoft 365 onboarding: licenses, mailbox timing, Teams
Directory sync runs every 30 minutes and a new mailbox is not instant. How I sequence sync, licensing, and mailbox checks so day-one access actually works.
When to delete a former employee's account (and how)
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.
Revoke access everywhere: the offboarding ghost hunt
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.
Automating offboarding in a one-person IT shop
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.
Automating new-hire onboarding in a one-person IT shop
How I replaced a manual, error-prone new-hire checklist with a web form and a PowerShell provisioning script, plus the gotchas that made me keep a human in the loop.