Field notes
Short reads from inside real Microsoft cloud environments.
Technical field notes on the architecture, governance, cost, and identity problems Falstech focuses on.
8 min read
How to stage a Conditional Access rollout without locking out the team
A staged rollout framework for report-only evidence, workload identities, emergency access, pilot criteria, and rollback.
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Five common Azure cost leaks in mid-market environments
Idle resources, oversized SKUs, forgotten dev environments — and the policy patterns that plug them.
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Microsoft 365 + Entra: a practical day-one governance baseline
Conditional access, named locations, emergency access, and review questions for a context-dependent baseline.
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When your MSP isn't enough: signs you need a fractional cloud engineer
Three signs that ticket-based support may not resolve the underlying architecture problem.
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