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Mike Poulson

Worked extensively on Microsoft365DSC, delivering new features and stability improvements across Azure AD, Intune, and Microsoft Graph API integrations. Built resources for domain federation, privileged access management, and certificate-based application configuration, enabling centralized governance and automation. Applied defensive coding and schema design to prevent data inconsistencies, while enhancing device and policy management capabilities. Improved reliability by resolving enumeration and date-time handling bugs, and maintained clear documentation and changelogs for user transparency. Leveraged PowerShell scripting, JSON, and Infrastructure as Code practices to ensure maintainable, scalable solutions. Demonstrated a disciplined approach to version control, technical writing, and DevOps best practices throughout.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

37Total
Bugs
3
Commits
37
Features
12
Lines of code
14,620
Activity Months6

Work History

April 2026

10 Commits • 3 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 — Monthly summary for FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC. Focus: deliver business value through new capabilities, stable resources, and crystal-clear documentation. 1) Key features delivered - Azure AD Domain Federation resource: new resource with lifecycle management (setup, update, removal); includes Domain Federation release notes and a schema issue fix in related components. Commits: 11c204f77d87104fa38aaba7f5efda69378a0d71; f8389f0c9ade51fd74a57a2acee461b4d8f9dbf6. 2) Major bugs fixed - Schema-related fixes in related components and alignment with the new Domain Federation resource. (Note: fixes are captured within feature commits above and the schema updates below.) 3) Overall impact and accomplishments - Accelerated automation for customers by enabling Domain Federation management via DSC; improved resource consistency and reliability; maintained up-to-date release notes and changelog for governance and audits. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated - PowerShell DSC resource development, schema mof and ClassVersion/versioning, changelog/release-note processes, and developer-focused documentation improvements.

March 2026

12 Commits • 5 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 highlights: Delivered pivotal governance and configuration capabilities across FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC and microsoft/Microsoft365DSC, enabling centralized privileged access management, certificate-based app configuration, consent-policy automation, and enhanced observability. Key features include new PIM resources, certificate-based application configuration support, consent policy resource, portal tracking logs, and initial role eligibility scheduling settings, contributing to improved security posture, compliance, and operational efficiency.

February 2026

8 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC focused on delivering business value through expanded device management capabilities, enhanced policy configurability, and improved reliability. Key outcomes include new device identification support for Intune, broader certificate-based app configuration controls in AAD policies, and robust date-time handling with better observability. All changes include tests and user-facing release notes, reinforcing maintainability and user communication. A targeted bug fix in date-time string conversion also improved policy processing stability.

January 2026

2 Commits

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC. Focused on stabilizing AAD role management and improving auditability. Delivered a deduplication fix for AAD Role Assignment to prevent duplicate entries by checking the dictionary before adding, addressing Issue #6810. Updated the changelog to document fixes affecting AADRoleAssignmentScheduleRequest and AADRoleEligibilityScheduleRequest. This work reduces data inconsistency risk, increases reliability of role provisioning, and lowers admin overhead through clearer audits and repeatable behavior.

February 2025

1 Commits

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC: Delivered a critical bug fix to Get-MgGroup to enumerate all groups by applying the -All flag, improving accuracy of group management and reporting in Microsoft365DSC. This addresses a missing enumeration edge case and enhances reliability for admins managing large groups.

November 2024

4 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Monthly summary for 2024-11: Delivered dynamic Microsoft Graph API endpoint resolution across Microsoft365DSC resources, centralizing Graph URLs via the connection profile and removing hardcoded graph.microsoft.com references to support multi-endpoint configurations. Fixed a broken CHANGELOG.md link by correcting issue number from 534 to 5342 and removed static graph reference usage in AADConditionalAccessPolicy and AADServicePrincipal. Business impact: enhanced cross-tenant reliability, easier maintenance, and scalable Graph endpoint management. Technologies demonstrated: Microsoft Graph API integration, URL resolution architecture, OData reference updates, and changelog hygiene. Commits: 3df0f279fa2aa5f19f8d9c8dafae4dfa55cf2d4e, 4cc761ca2b30dccac240585aa8af8d5716f39489, 7c3212c5a13138e35b128efbf34b2cb5fa76a485, 4ef045149edbd87ef2ed3d815ee88eff5afc11db

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Quality Metrics

Correctness98.4%
Maintainability94.6%
Architecture97.8%
Performance94.6%
AI Usage21.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JSONMOFMarkdownPowerShell

Technical Skills

API IntegrationAPI integrationAzureAzure ADAzure AD managementAzure Active DirectoryAzure Active Directory managementAzure ManagementAzure managementCloud EngineeringCloud ManagementConfiguration ManagementConfiguration managementDevOpsDevOps practices

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

FabienTschanz/Microsoft365DSC

Feb 2025 Apr 2026
5 Months active

Languages Used

PowerShellMarkdownJSONMOF

Technical Skills

API IntegrationCloud ManagementPowerShell ScriptingMicrosoft AzurePowerShell scriptingRole Management

microsoft/Microsoft365DSC

Nov 2024 Mar 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

MarkdownPowerShell

Technical Skills

API IntegrationAPI integrationAzure ADAzure Active DirectoryCloud EngineeringDevOps