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At MMSMOA 2025, in my Home Assistant Happy Hour sessions with Tom Degreef, we used a Ulanzi TC001 pixel clock display to show messages to attendees for a couple demos. It was a neat way to visually display the output we were generating in addition to what could be viewed in the HA interface.

I love Home Assistant, and I love APIs/Webhooks/automations, so today we combine the two!

Another edition of MMS (MOA 2025) is now in the books, and by the time this post publishes it'll have been the better part of a month since it ended! How time flies! It was, as always, an outstanding event bringing the community together for the better part of a week, and I really thank those folks behind the scenes who pull it all together so swimmingly.

During a session planning conversation for MMS Flamingo last fall I had the idea to create a basic Powershell module as an illustration/starting point to using direct HTTP requests with Invoke-RestMethod against Graph API.

A few weeks back I presented at BrainStorm K20 Wisconsin Dells where my key session was related to getting started with the Microsoft Graph API. The session went very well, and I have received a significant amount of positive feedback including some "best of the conference" feedback notes.

In the first post of this short series, I wrote about using the Deployment Researc

I've been a proponent of a dev/test CM (or just client device) lab environment for a long time.

Last summer, Let's Encrypt announced their intent to end their OCSP service, and this was formalized in December with key dates related to the change.

A couple times a year I do some spot checking and a little manual cleanup in AD. This is triggerd by inventory/asset management analysis. I say "spot checking" because by and large the existing business processes and automations take care of the vast majority of changes, but for a couple of reasons there are always a few stragglers.