About Device Metal
Device Metal is my personal technical blog, built from the trenches of real enterprise IT work.
I’m a workplace architect and consultant — and a frequent speaker at international events and conferences, where I present on modern Windows, cloud-native endpoints, and identity-driven design. Many of the topics you’ll find here started life as conference sessions, live demos, or tough questions from an audience that has already tried this in production.
Most of my day-to-day work is hands-on: designing, deploying, and fixing cloud-native Windows environments using Intune, Windows 365, Entra ID, and Autopilot. This isn’t lab-only theory — it’s based on what actually happens in customer environments, including the parts that don’t go according to plan.
What I write about
The content is practical, opinionated, and rooted in work experience:
- Cloud-native Windows and Autopilot deployments
- Windows 365 in real-world scenarios
- Intune configurations that survive production
- Identity-first design and security trade-offs
- Kiosk, shared, and special-purpose devices
No marketing fluff. No perfect lab assumptions. Just things that work — and warnings when they don’t.
Why Device Metal?
Because modern device management isn’t gentle.
It’s loud, complex, and sometimes unforgiving — much like the music that’s usually playing while I work. The name reflects the mindset: cut legacy noise, keep things simple, and build solutions that hold up under pressure.
This blog is about modern Windows and device management, written from real project and conference experience, for people who actually run this stuff in production.
If you’ve ever thought “this looked easier in the slide deck” — you’ll feel right at home here. 🤘
