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Frank Lesniak

@franklesniak.com
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Microsoft MVP ( #Azure, #PowerShell ) | #Microsoft365 Consulting Team Lead @westmonroe.bsky.social with Focus on Corporate M&A | #Windows | #M365 | #Identity | #Cybersecurity

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 25/09/2026
Hmm. #Codex is down for me. Suddenly my Codex app's chat windows cannot connect to the back-end API.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 23/09/2026
For my Chicagoland-based folks: DuPage Animal Friends has a fundraiser coming up at @noonwhistlebrewing.bsky.social in Lombard, IL, on October 2. This event is a ton of fun! I'll be there from 5-9 PM with the fam. Stop by, grab a drink, and support #ShelterPets! Tickets: dupageanimalfriends....
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 23/09/2026
Jeez, the NeoGeo AES+ is delayed until Sept 2027?!
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 23/09/2026
Thanks to Opus 5.5, Claude doesn't seem totally worthless! Only half joking - I was about to cancel my sub after being maxed out on frustration dealing with Opus 5. (Before the Claude haters or Codex lovers chime in, I use the crap out of Codex as well)
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 23/09/2026
For my Chicagoland-based folks: DuPage Animal Friends has a fundraiser coming up at @noonwhistlebrewing.bsky.social in Lombard, IL, on October 2. This event is a ton of fun! I'll be there from 5-9 PM with the fam. Stop by, grab a drink, and support #ShelterPets! Tickets: dupageanimalfriends....
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 18/09/2026
Hmm. The last two days, my #Codex #VSCode extension works for a while. But, then -- seemingly randomly -- it refuses to display anything other than a grey box.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/09/2026
Spent the last couple of days facilitating @westmonroe.bsky.social's Basecamp, training ~75 new college hires. Great experience—super fun seeing folks across tech, industry, and functional teams use Codex in a mini-hackathon. They built amazing stuff in just hours! #AI #Hackathon
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 08/09/2026
Umm... this is an ARM64 system, and I'm running Windows 11?
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 07/09/2026
I'm here! #hipconf #hipconf26
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 30/08/2026
I'm Nashville-bound next week for the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference! I selected sessions on defending AD, retiring NTLM & securing Entra (@dotdot.horse, @ericonidentity.com, @merill.net, @samerde.day3bits.com) to help me keep my clients secure. Attending? Say hi! #HIPConf
Conference agenda webpage with tabs for Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Wednesday, September 9, 2026, and Thursday, September 10, 2026; Wednesday is selected. The schedule lists Breakfast 7:30 AM–8:45 AM, Opening Remarks: Mickey Bresman, Why Cyber Conflict Is a Human Problem, LETs KILL NTLM, Breaks, Attackers Aren’t Wizards: Turning Red Team Lore into Real Controls, Mission-Critical Conditional Access at Scale, Lunch, AD Experts Panel, Let’s Kill NTLM (Vol. 2): The Kerberos Connection, Abusing the Holes in Conditional Access: Modern Attack Paths and How to Close Them, and Evening Event 6:30 PM–10:00 PM.Conference agenda page with tabs for Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Wednesday, September 9, 2026, and selected Thursday, September 10, 2026. The Thursday schedule lists sessions such as Breakfast, Human Resilience in the Age of AI: Building Proactive Cyber Defense, Your Agents Don’t Have Passwords: Governing Non-Human and Agentic AI Identities, Lunch, and Resilience Under Fire: A CISO’s Journey Through Crisis, Health Challenges, and High-Stakes Defense, each with times and magnifying glass icons on the right.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/08/2026
Want #Intune "as code" without the nightmare of JSON import/export pipelines? @danny-stutz.bsky.social & I are showing a better way at Workplace Ninjas US. We'll use DSC v3 to enforce #Win11 baselines & fix drift in real time Jan 11-13 | Scottsdale, AZ workplaceninjas.us #WPNinjasUS #WPNinjas
Title slide on a dark blue background reading Operating Windows 11 Baselines with DSC v3 and Intune, featuring Frank Lesniak’s headshot and details: Microsoft MVP | West Monroe, Socials: https://linktr.ee/franklesniak, and Workplace Ninjas US 2027; www.workplaceninjas.us appears in the top right. A cartoon lizard pulls a rope with a cowboy riding a cactus on the right.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 28/08/2026
The Call for Papers for PowerShell Summit 2027 is open on Sessionize, and I've just submitted a session! (OK, I submitted ten sessions...) What are you waiting for? Submit!: sessionize.com/pshsu... #PSHSummit #PSHSummit27
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PowerShell Summit 2027: Call for Papers
The PowerShell Summit is where the PowerShell community comes to learn, connect, and level up. Happening April 5–8, 2027, in Orlando, Florida, the Sum...
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026
I am not a fan of this Claude Code UI. I get that it's editing a sensitive file, but not telling me what edit is being made/proposed makes this dialog meaningless. Also, right before this, I explicitly told Claude Code to make this edit, so the redundant pause is incredibly frustrating.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026
I'm trying something new: Codex is bossing Claude around. Also known as: the fox watching the henhouse. 😅
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026
Codex taught me a new word: mojibake en.wikipedia.org/wik... (Another example where I knew the concept, but not the word for the concept - so: thanks, AI! 😅)
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/08/2026
I’ll be heading to Nashville September 8–10 for the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (#HIPConf26). The agenda and speaker lineup look excellent, and I’m especially looking forward to learning, exchanging ideas, and connecting with others in the #identity community. Who else will be there?
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 14/08/2026
Voting opens tomorrow! Cast your votes for your favorite pets to be featured in the DuPage Animal Friends' 2027 calendar! 2 ways to vote: Purchase votes directly on the specific entry page Bank your votes and check out once Learn more: www.gogophotocontest...
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 11/08/2026
Interesting little mini PC: A mini-PC Like a retro console: Currently on sale for $639 – Acemagic Retro X3 review
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A mini-PC like a retro console: Currently on sale for $639 – Acemagic Retro X3 review
The Acemagic Retro X3 combines iconic retro design with an AMD Ryzen 7 255 and Radeon 780M. In this review, we test the performance, cooling, noise level, efficiency, and upgradeability of this unusual mini-PC.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026
Something fun for the DuPage Animal Friends calendar: a photo contest! Submit your best furry friend pics for a chance to feature your pet in the 2027 calendar. Donate $25 and upload here: www.gogophotocontest.com/daf2027. Share and help homeless animals! #dupagesaves #dupageanimalfriends
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026
I'm familiar with this class of race condition/bug, but didn't know the TOCTOU term/acronym until now. 🧠
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026
Why does AI feel the need to point out that every problem is a "real" problem? Saying something is "real" seems to be the leading AI trope of July/August 2026.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 01/08/2026
I'm honored (and seriously jazzed) to have been able to fly to Dallas this week to teach about 30 of my colleagues what I know about using AI for consulting client delivery! I genuinely love sharing knowledge and empowering others. The fact that I'm paid to do this (on occasion) is amazing.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/07/2026
You know me: just casually making $202B USD payments to my electrical utility! #ComEd
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/07/2026
Super helpful for anyone interested in using or checking out DSCv3!
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/07/2026
What the hell, #Notepad?!
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/07/2026
Couldn't turn this off fast enough. Actually that's a lie; I tried to turn this off previously but I don't think it was an available notification category.
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Hagen 💎 @samuraika.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I built #O365EndpointFunctions to turn the #Microsoft365 endpoint API into a clean, strongly-typed objects and help automate firewall rules, proxy bypass lists, PAC files, and more. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/O36... #PowerShell #Office365 #NetworkSecurity #OpenSource #PSGallery
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O365EndpointFunctions 1.2.1
Retrieves the Microsoft 365 / Office 365 IP address and URL endpoints from the Microsoft web service and exports them as a proxy PAC file or a Ghostery policy, or merges them with custom endpoints.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 20/07/2026
Ruby-throated hummingbird perched on electrical lines near sunset on a hazy, low air quality day
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 20/07/2026
Ruby-throated hummingbird perched on electrical lines near sunset on a hazy, low air quality day
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/07/2026
Hot damn. 13 hours later, I finally have clean CI. (Doing Dev Containers "right" is hard)
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/07/2026
What the... #GitHub #GitHubCopilot
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 16/07/2026
😒 I'm tired, bros.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/07/2026
You can't make this stuff up. #claudecode #claude #anthropic
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/07/2026
Windows Defender is flagging #Codex as malicious. "This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker." The ironic part is I'm working on building a devcontainer module for github.com/franklesn... -- to make it easy to sandbox coding agents. I guess I'll work from Codex on the web...
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/07/2026
I backed into a parking space in a parking lot the other day, paid to park, and went to dinner. I came back to a ticket because apparently backing into a space is not allowed. Freaking $40 ticket. Ridic. I go to pay it, and they charge both a convenience fee AND a CC fee? Seriously, #ForestPark?
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/07/2026
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 03/07/2026
I fired up my Lenovo Flex 5G yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that I was FINALLY able to update it from 23H2 to 25H2. Microsoft or Qualcomm fixed whatever driver issue was blocking/resulting in a BSOD. This #fanless Windows laptop still has some life! #Windows #Windows11 #Win11
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/06/2026
.@danny-stutz.bsky.social and I are presenting "Troubleshoot Intune Compliance with PowerShell" in partnership with @recastsoftware.com! We'll highlight advanced #PowerShell concepts and give a sneak peek at a new #Intune tool. 📅 June 30 @ 10 AM CDT. Sign up for free!: www.recastsoftware.c...
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/06/2026
Actual LOL
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/06/2026
.@danny-stutz.bsky.social and I are presenting "Troubleshoot Intune Compliance with PowerShell" in partnership with @recastsoftware.com! We'll highlight advanced #PowerShell concepts and give a sneak peek at a new #Intune tool. 📅 June 30 @ 10 AM CDT. Sign up for free!: www.recastsoftware.c...
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Gilbert Sanchez (💻 HeyItsGilbert) @gilbertsanchez.com · 28/06/2026
You're shipping faster than ever with AI. So why do you feel fried? Running 5 agents isn't 5x output. It's 5 junior engineers tapping your shoulder - and nobody warned you about the cognitive bill. How I protect my focus: gilbertsanchez.com/posts/using-...
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Using AI Without Losing Your Mind
AI lets you ship faster, but the throughput has a hidden cost: cognitive exhaustion. Here's how I run agents without burning out.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/06/2026
Report: Apple to skip M6 Pro/Max chips, fast-track M7 for local AI
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Report: Apple to skip M6 Pro/Max chips, fast-track M7 for local AI
To bring more powerful chips to market half a year earlier, Apple is switching up its portfolio.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 23/06/2026
5K2K is my favorite monitor resolution. This monitor is a bit larger than I think is ideal... but it's arguably the best 5K2K monitor on the market, and it's at the lowest price I've seen (at least here in the US): amzn.to/4vsZGfC (affiliate link but honest opinion)
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Amazon.com: LG 45GX950A-B 45-inch Ultragear 5K2K WUHD (5120 x 2160) OLED Curved Gaming Monitor, Dual-Mode, 165Hz, 0.03ms, NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, HDR True Black 400, USB Type-C 90W, DP2.1 : Electronics
Amazon.com: LG 45GX950A-B 45-inch Ultragear 5K2K WUHD (5120 x 2160) OLED Curved Gaming Monitor, Dual-Mode, 165Hz, 0.03ms, NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, HDR True Black 400, USB Type-C 90W, DP2.1 : Electronics
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 22/06/2026
FYI: you can put yourself on the list to get a Steam Machine, at least here in the US. You have to put yourself on the list by June 25, 10 AM PDT.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 19/06/2026
Interesting. I had not heard of this MCIO connector before I came across this article:
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MaxSun replaces PCIe x16 slot on Mini-ITX motherboard with two MCIO connectors - VideoCardz.com
The company has presented two boards: MS-Challenger MCIO ITX and MS-PC Farm B860I.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/06/2026
SpaceX is acquiring Cursor:
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SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/06/2026
After "Nineteen-ish Years Of Development", The Original 'Mother' Has Been Remade As A Patch For Earthbound SNES www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06... (via @timeextension.com)
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After "Nineteen-ish Years Of Development", The Original 'Mother' Has Been Remade As A Patch For Earthbound SNES
And it's available now!
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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/06/2026
Noctua finally releases its first AIO coolers — prices start at $220 for 240mm, features the company’s legendary A-series fans | via Tom's Hardware
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Noctua finally releases its first AIO coolers — prices start at $220 for 240mm, features the company’s legendary A-series fans
The legendary air cooling company is diving into water (cooling).
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PSHSummit @powershellsummit.org · 16/06/2026
New to the community? Clicked a scary 'Terminal' icon and got hooked? We were all new once — the #PSHSummit stage has room for your story too. CFP opens July 1: www.powershellsummit.org/blog/so-you-... #PSHSummit #PowerShell
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Andres Bohren @andresbohren.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨Only a few minutes ago #PowerShell v7.6.3 has been released tinyurl.com/5n76x8ke
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