Rakesh Khimji

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

CFOs realizing that their AI token budget is going to be higher than the salaries of the people they laid off

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

This should be part of every curriculum.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Merill Fernando @merill]

6 months ago, 4 Microsoft Security MVPs and I started building something.

Last week, 120 people attended a 7-hour Entra Identity Masterclass at @ExpertsLiveDK .

Nearly all of them stayed the entire time.

Today, we're making the Masterclass Labs ❇️free❇️ on GitHub.

On the latest Entra Chat podcast, @JanVidarElven, @pimjacobs89, @Thomas_Live, @KlaBiers and I break down exactly what's inside the lab:

🔹 Lab 1: Entra Inbound Provisioning: Connect an HR source and push users into your tenant

🔹 Lab 2: Lifecycle Workflows: Automate joiner, mover, and leaver processes with pre-hire, new hire, and post-onboarding flows

🔹 Lab 3: Privileged Accounts: Create and secure admin accounts with FIDO2 phishing-resistant authentication

🔹 Lab 4: Access Packages & Entitlement Management: Govern access requests end-to-end

🔹 Lab 5: Conditional Access & Security Monitoring: Protect identities and monitor exposure in Entra ID

🔹 Lab 6: Entra Agents: Explore AI-powered identity management

All self-guided. All on GitHub.

Fork it, contribute to it, learn from it.

If you work with Microsoft Entra ID, this is for you.

🎧 Watch/listen to the full episode: https://t.co/TBlNKTzn8t

👾 Join the community: https://t.co/vYMkv6z8jj

Huge thanks to @knudsenmortendk who came up with the brilliant idea for the Identity Masterclass and for putting together this amazing team of MVPs to build and deliver it!

#MicrosoftEntra #EntraID #IdentitySecurity #MicrosoftSecurity #ZeroTrust #EntraChat #OpenSource

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

(comic) Where Change Goes to Die

[James @investor_bod]

England’s opener today, Zak Crawley, and number 11 Adil Rashid have each batted 251 times in first class cricket in their careers.

Adil Rashid has a better first class batting average.

#SLvsENG

[memes.xlsx @ExcelHumor]

me tomorrow

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@Sdbrownb Painful. We just left the airport 3 hours after landing!

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@flysrilankan can you assist?

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@flysrilankan just checked in four adults and four children- three of whom are under 10. I can’t choose my seats so the children have an adult with them. We are separated all across the plane. How can my 6 year old sit by himself for 4 hours? Can you please allocate us seats?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@_0b1d1 PDF

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@techspence Awesome, thanks for sharing! Look forward to testing and rolling it out.

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@TarunAmasa @OpenAI Invite please

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@Athersmike @DineshKarthik @nassercricket @SkyCricket @StuartBroad8 what a series, you’ve all made it even more enjoyable with your insights and banter. Keep up the great work. Long live Test cricket! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇳

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

RT if you LOVE Test Cricket

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@NoContextBrits We’d still have a hosepipe ban

[Sky Sports Cricket @SkyCricket]

😅👏

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I just had a spray of this. I’ve been instantly transported back to 1999. I’m going out with £15 in my Velcro wallet which will somehow buy me 8 pints, 16 Rothmans from a machine in a pub, a kebab, and a taxi home. My shirt is massive and I have a whole pot of wet-look gel in my hair. My Nokia is ringing in my pocket, even though I haven’t charged it for three days.

[Rakesh Khimji @electrorax]

@OctopusEnergy hey team, I’ve been trying to sign up for an account so I can switch, I don’t get the email link to create it. Any ideas why?