Merill Fernando

Why did I leave Microsoft?

To work full time on 🔥 Maester.

Over 40,000+ tenants today rely on Maester to monitor their tenants daily.

I wanted to make sure that the tests they are running continue to be relevant and evolve as Microsoft 365 and the security landscape evolves.

So today I'm announcing the launch of Maester.Cloud

Maester Cloud is the portal companion to Maester that lets you track your results over time. It is multi tenant, runs in your cloud (or ours) and more → check out the site for all the features.

More importantly Maester Cloud is a way for me to fund the continued development of the open source Maester core and the tests in Maester.

That is our mission. In fact I worked with the core team @fabian_bader , @Thomas_Live , @MySnozzberries and @SamErde to create the Maester Manifesto (maester.cloud/manifesto). It is our promise to the community.

If you value Maester and would like to support and ensure that Maester continues to grow and be healthy, I would be beyond thrilled if your organisation can sponsor this effort.

I would also appreciate it very much if you can share this post with your network to spread awareness.

Thanks!

It's wild how many people on X believe conspiracy theories like this one.

Meanwhile in the real world, Microsoft has statutory and contractual obligations to disclose and report breaches under multiple global and regional laws.

Do they think MS is above the law?

If you read MSRC it was a Microsoft employee who found it and they fixed it.

It was only disclosed as an FYI to provide transparency

That's how good life is on Entra 😂

@rucam365's prediction for after the AI apocalypse: only cockroaches and Active Directory survive.

He might be right. 🪳

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👋 Check out this new Microsoft Entra blog post 👇

What’s new in Microsoft Entra: November 2026

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