I’m Dayden, a working systems administrator in Salt Lake City. I help companies get Microsoft 365, security and compliance, and their networks set up properly and kept that way.
Everything here comes from hands-on work: real problems, real fixes, and what I’d do differently.
If you’ve spent any time in the Microsoft Defender portal or the Intune admin center, you’ve probably come across Attack Surface Reduction rules, commonly called ASR rules.
Every note is filed under one of these, the same way I file my own. Start with whichever one is on fire today.
Configuration profiles, compliance, app deployment, and Autopilot.
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Identity, Conditional Access, MFA, and the break glass accounts that save you.
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Defender for Business, ASR rules, hardening, and security posture.
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Scripts and Microsoft Graph for the admin work nobody wants to click through twice.
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Switching, VLANs, firewalls, and Wi-Fi for offices without a network team.
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Admin Basics LLC is my consulting practice. I take on Microsoft 365 administration, security and compliance, and networking work for organizations of any size, from a one-off cleanup to a full rollout.
Tenant settings, licensing that makes sense, and email and device onboarding done in the right order.
Intune compliance, Conditional Access, Defender, and ASR rolled out without breaking anyone’s morning.
Firewall rules, Wi‑Fi and VLANs set up cleanly, so the network stops being the mystery in the corner.
PowerShell and Graph scripts that take the repetitive, error-prone work off your plate.