Hi folks, I'm Merill Fernando, a Product Manager at Microsoft. Welcome to my personal home on the internet. This is where I share the projects and tools I've built for the Microsoft community.

Writing & Talks

My Personal Blog

My random thoughts and an archive of everything I post on social media.

Entra.News

My weekly newsletter for Microsoft admins and cybersecurity folks on the latest in Microsoft Entra.

18k readers

Entra.Chat

My weekly podcast on Microsoft Entra covering the latest news, features, and best practices.

8k listeners

Community Tools

Maester

Open source Microsoft test automation framework and security analyzer for your tenant.

128k tenants

cmd.ms

Your Microsoft Cloud command line. Quick shortcuts to jump to any admin portal or documentation page.

56k monthly active users

M365 Message Center Archive

Searchable archive of all Microsoft 365 Message Center posts.

Refined Microsoft Learn

Browser extension to make Microsoft Learn distraction free and help you focus on the content.

bluesky.ms

Discover Microsoft folks on Bluesky. Find and connect with the Microsoft community.

Yako

A beautiful browser start page for Microsoft users and admins. Instantly access 900+ Microsoft portals from your new tab.

Microsoft Graph Tools

graph.pm

Microsoft Graph Skill for AI agents. Search 27,700+ Graph APIs and curated samples locally, in milliseconds.

lokka.dev

An AI agent tool that brings the power of Microsoft Graph to AI agents and LLMs.

Graph X-Ray

Fiddler for Microsoft! Convert your actions in the Azure Portal to Graph PowerShell commands.

Graph Permissions Explorer

Browse all Microsoft Graph APIs and see exactly what data is exposed for each Graph Permission.

Uninstall-Graph

PowerShell module that completely uninstalls and removes all Microsoft Graph PowerShell modules from your system.

Microsoft Entra Tools

idPowerToys

Microsoft Entra Conditional Access visualizer. Understand and troubleshoot your CA policies.

aka.ms/AppNames

Repository hosting a daily updated CSV/JSON of Microsoft first party app names and their GUIDs.

Microsoft Contributions

Zero Trust Workshop

A workshop to help organizations understand and implement Zero Trust principles using Microsoft Security solutions.

Zero Trust Explorer

Interactive explorer for the Microsoft Zero Trust framework. Visualize and navigate Zero Trust architecture and controls.

Entra Exporter

PowerShell module that exports all the configuration and data of a Microsoft Entra tenant.

MSIdentityTools

Collection of useful PowerShell cmdlets for common Azure AD and Microsoft Entra functionality.