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.

🔥 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.

🤖 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.
🚮 Uninstall-Graph - PowerShell module that does one thing. Completely uninstalls and removes all Microsoft Graph PowerShell modules from your system.

🦾 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.

🛡️ 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.