Playbooks & operational artifacts

These are short, practical guides reflecting how I operate: safer change windows, faster triage, and recoverability you can prove. Full write-ups are being expanded.

Microsoft 365 access & provisioning workflow

Role-based provisioning patterns to reduce access churn and speed onboarding.

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  • Standardize groups, licensing, and SharePoint/Teams access by role.
  • Use repeatable checklists so onboarding is consistent and auditable.
  • Reduce “who has access to what?” noise via simple ownership + documentation.

Endpoint baseline hardening (Intune/M365 controls)

Practical baselines: encryption, update cadence, compliance, and reducing repeat incidents.

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  • Define baseline: encryption + updates + core policies.
  • Use enrollment/compliance patterns to keep devices consistent.
  • Track repeat issues and turn them into playbooks.

Hyper-V operations: maintenance + rollback

Host/guest patch sequencing, checkpoints, and post-change validation.

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  • Pre-change: confirm backups and console access; verify host health.
  • Change window: patch host → validate → then guests; document results.
  • Rollback plan: checkpoints used deliberately; validate services after revert.

SQL Server ops triage (first-response)

Backups/restores, Agent job health, services monitoring, and evidence-based escalation.

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  • Confirm service status, disk space, and recent changes.
  • Check backup status + Agent jobs; capture timestamps and errors.
  • Separate infra bottlenecks (CPU/RAM/disk/network) vs application behavior.
Next additions: anonymized diagrams (topology + services), a “first 30 minutes of an outage” response framework, and short post-incident review templates.