Every Monday
The Sysadmin Desk Brief
A five-minute email for admins who run on-premises Active Directory and Windows Server alongside Microsoft 365, Entra and Intune. Triage first, news second.
What's in each issue
- Do this week
- Three to five things to act on now, each with a one-line action and its source: exploited CVEs that have a patch, known issues with a workaround.
- Plan for
- Changes rolling out in the next 30 to 90 days: retirements, new defaults, enforcement dates.
- FYI
- Everything else worth knowing, one line each.
- My take
- A few sentences from me, an IT operations lead who runs this stack every day.
Built from public sources only: the MSRC Security Update Guide, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, Windows release health, the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, and the Intune and Entra "What's new" pages. How it's made.
Issues
The first issue goes out on November 16, 2026, covering that month's Patch Tuesday.