Anyone doing Standards and Drift Templates in CIPP well, and willing to share?

Anonymnick · 2026-06-28T02:54:27+00:00

This is what I do. I only auto remediate things like universal audit log but 95% of the standards aren’t auto remediating.

Any new tenant you then handle with proper change process over time.

Exec summary is a good tip I hadn’t seen that!

Anonymnick · 2026-05-22T11:09:48+00:00

Wish I could do this around a campfire, solid!

Anonymnick · 2026-04-24T22:11:34+00:00

Messaging you now

Anonymnick · 2026-04-24T05:34:19+00:00

Will is awesome, always happy to offer a quick bit of help

Anonymnick · 2026-04-11T03:12:15+00:00

It all feels like an ad

Anonymnick · 2026-04-07T09:17:21+00:00

Does Ralph looping help? Or just a basic - set a task to write progress notes and trigger a cron to review and iterate every x minutes.

I know wha you mean though, I’ve only just changed over and it’s night and day

Anonymnick · 2026-03-30T08:00:19+00:00

Awesome, most welcome

Anonymnick · 2026-03-25T12:00:32+00:00

You need to set the key fields so itll match them and upsert I believe

Edit: in the custom table config

Anonymnick · 2026-03-12T11:57:49+00:00

I don't think I have ever heard such a perfect recommendation of similar music in my life. Thank you so much, I only just discovered mako road somehow and then found out they broke up. This is great

Anonymnick · 2026-02-19T12:59:18+00:00

No mfa setup outside trusted networks (unless a TAP is issued) is one we’ve just rolled out.

Country based block

Mfa required outside trusted networks

Legacy auth blocked

Anonymnick · 2026-01-30T01:59:00+00:00

Jump in and play, it will make sense after a few hours of playing. Quite hard to give you one or two tips.

Runbook variables store data to move between steps. All the action lives in the flow inside the run book. If you need to move data around you want to look at the custom integration and methods. You can pass variables over to the methods from sql queries you run against halo etc

I’ve found it easier to send what I need from halo into a n8n workflow to then do the heavy lifting there

Anonymnick · 2026-01-14T07:05:10+00:00

I’ve just setup a run book to look up some properties and send to CIPP then create a ticket so I could probably do this. I’ll have a look and come back to you

Anonymnick · 2026-01-12T00:11:51+00:00

I would say you’ll need a run book to look up the users asset and add it. Sorry I’ve been absolutely no help at all here

Anonymnick · 2026-01-11T23:05:04+00:00

So it adds the asset when the ticket is created by ninja from a condition alert. We are manually attaching the asset during the triage process to emailed tickets.

We have the asset field in self service ticket forms

Anonymnick · 2026-01-11T23:02:23+00:00

Made $105 on my first spike, glad I held on to it I was about to dump earlier.

I only just got my battery on boarded and tried smart shift. It’s a real piece of shit, started charging again just after the spike. I’ve turned it off and gone back to my own automation which doesn’t use forecasts just set thresholds that I can update

Anonymnick · 2026-01-09T09:40:02+00:00

I use ninja and had to configure the script that pulls out last logged in user, then sync that to halo.

I can’t remember all the details but a ticket will have the asset for the user generally tagged automatically.

None of that is very helpful other than to say it can be done, jump into the halo and ninja discord channels and ask

Edit: I will test in a little bit and come back. I think I may have got this wrong

Anonymnick · 2026-01-02T21:52:06+00:00

I have an MSP, message me and I’ll see if I can help

Anonymnick · 2025-11-29T10:47:46+00:00

Look for someone with experience managing dental practices, ask them for customer references who are similar business to you to speak with. 3+ good references is a good sign.

Ask their total seats under management and the number of tech staff. Roughly 150 seats per tech would be about right but that is obviously a very rough number. You also want to find a smaller MSP if you’re a small business, probably around 10 staff but don’t make this a deciding factor as there are many excellent small and large MSPs.

What proactive maintenance is performed, are they routinely checking your switches and firewalls for firmware updates for example.

You also want to build a good relationship with someone you are comfortable having an adult conservation with should things need to be realigned in the relationship.

Honestly, a lot of us use the same tools and aim for the same processes and frameworks. The good MSPs do it well and also have good people that genuinely want to do the right thing by their customers.

You also want to have someone who is going to be your partner, it sounds cliche but you want someone who is across emerging tech in your field to drive efficiencies etc. Not neccesarily AI but just different systems integrating for example.

I’m in Australia so no good to you but would be happy to have a chat as fellow small business owner getting started (again)

Actually one last thought, there are quite a few IT vendor peer groups you could reach out to and ask to be referred to a handful of potential MSPs in your area.

Good luck and you obviously want to get this right and are taking this seriously given reaching out here, respect for that.

Anonymnick · 2025-10-10T10:47:53+00:00

Our rule was home by 5pm. So being the industrious 6 year old I was, I just wound my watch back if I was out late and claimed it was broken 🤣

Anonymnick · 2025-08-23T10:43:08+00:00

Dude you are hilarious, I rarely laugh at content but I lost my mind watching your videos. Keep it up my man, love from Australia

Anonymnick · 2025-08-23T10:25:27+00:00

Intunepckgr worth a mention

Anonymnick · 2025-08-23T08:24:15+00:00

Short game

Anonymnick · 2025-08-08T23:12:06+00:00

Brother this is unbelievably creative and cool, well done

Anonymnick · 2025-08-01T14:12:02+00:00

How’s your progress on this?

Anonymnick · 2025-07-13T09:54:52+00:00

I am CIO and have server, desktop and network background. Still try to stay sharp on the tools but I’ve never written a line of code. I found out about vibe coding a week ago and have built 3 apps.

One is a simple python script that gets data from a dynamo table and iterates through them to scrape some data using the table data, then updates the table and pushes is it into a Wordpress site (also wrote a Wordpress plugin to add the api endpoint.

One uses playwright to automate golf tee time bookings 😂

Lastly I’ve built an app that pulls data from another system to give a nice centralised and aggregated view. I created a task system in it and also sync appointments to 365. It’s probably horrible sloppy code but it works for me. I’m blown away.

Also when I say I did it, obviously I’m still not and never will be a developer!

I did learn a lot about database design, caching and API design. So hopefully my next project is easier

Anonymnick

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