Merill Fernando
Hi folks 👋, I’m a Product Manager at Microsoft.
things I write and talk about
- ✍️ My personal blog → blog.merill.net - My random thoughts and an archive of everything I post on social media.
- 🗞️ Entra.News - A weekly newsletter for Microsoft admins and cybersecurity folks on the latest in the world of Microsoft Entra.
- 🎧 Entra.Chat - A weekly podcast on Microsoft Entra.
things I’ve built for the Microsoft community
- 🔥 maester.dev - Microsoft test automation framework + security analyzer.
- ⚡ cmd.ms - Your Microsoft Cloud command line.
- 💬 Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive - Searchable archive of all Microsoft 365 Message Center posts.
- 🎓 Refined Microsoft Learn - Browser extension to make Microsoft Learn distraction free and focus on the content.
- 🔍 akaSearch.net - Community contributed search engine for aka.ms links.
- 🦋 bluesky.ms - Find out Microsoft folks on Bluesky.
things I’ve built for Microsoft Graph
- 🤖 lokka.dev - An AI agent tool that brings the power of Microsoft Graph to AI agents and LLMs.
- 🩻 Graph X-Ray - Fiddler for Microsoft! Convert your actions in the Azure Portal to Graph PowerShell commands.
- 🦒 Graph Permissions Explorer - Site that shows all the Graph APIs and data exposed for a given Graph Permission.
things I’ve built for Microsoft Entra
- 🦾 idPowerToys.merill.net - Microsoft Entra Conditional Access visualizer.
- 📮 aka.ms/AppNames - Repository hosting a daily updated csv/json of Microsoft first party app names and their GUIDs.
things I’ve built or contributed to at Microsoft
- 🛡️ Zero Trust Workshop - A workshop to help organizations understand and implement Zero Trust principles and practices using Microsoft Security solutions.
- 🗃️ Entra Exporter - PowerShell module that exports all the config and data of a Microsoft Entra tenant.
- 👮 Azure AD Assessment - Guidance to assess the health of an Azure AD tenant and provide best practice guidance / recommendations.
- 🔨 MSIdentityTools - Collection of useful cmdlets for common Azure AD functionality.