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Hi there, I’m João Paulo (JP) 👋

I’m a Lead Application Support Manager at Phoenix Group, with a strong passion for continuous learning and technology. You can explore my certifications and learning journey on my Credly profile.

In 2025, I was honoured to be recognised as a Microsoft MVP for Azure.

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I’m particularly passionate about Azure architecture, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on building secure, scalable, and well-governed platforms.

I also hold several Microsoft certifications, including Azure Solutions Architect and Enterprise Administrator.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

I’ve been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2021, delivering official Microsoft training.

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Alongside this, I actively share knowledge through blogging and community engagement.

🧑‍💻 About Me

  • 🇧🇷 Brazilian living in 🇬🇧 UK
  • 18+ years of experience in IT infrastructure
  • Lead Application Support Manager focused on Azure, Microsoft 365, Automation & Intune
  • Passionate about documentation, real-world tutorials and helping the community
  • Author of GetPractical.co.uk – practical content without the bullshit

🚀 What I usually work on

  • Designing and supporting Azure landing zones, governance & best practices
  • Microsoft 365: Exchange Hybrid, Teams, Intune, Defender, Conditional Access
  • Building PowerShell & Graph scripts for:
    • health checks & HTML reports
    • automation and clean-up
    • compliance & security baselines
  • Helping customers move from on-prem to modern cloud-native architectures
  • Documenting everything in a simple and practical way for engineers and customers

🧰 Tech stack & interests

☁️ Cloud & Identity

  • Azure · Azure Virtual Machines · Storage · Networking
  • Entra ID (Azure AD) · Conditional Access · PIM
  • Azure Policy · Management Groups · RBAC

💼 Modern Workplace

  • Microsoft 365 · Exchange Online / Hybrid
  • Intune (Windows, compliance, apps, configuration profiles, remediation scripts)
  • Defender for Endpoint & M365 security features

⚙️ Automation & DevOps

  • PowerShell (a lot)
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • Azure Automation / Runbooks
  • Terraform (learning and applying in new projects)
  • CI/CD concepts, GitHub & pipelines

✍️ Latest posts from Get Practical

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    Azure Health Check HTML Report for governance, compute, storage, network and Key Vault.

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  2. microsoft-graph-docs-contrib microsoft-graph-docs-contrib Public

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    Documentation for the Microsoft Graph REST API

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    This is the public repo for Microsoft Entra documentation

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  4. azure-docs azure-docs Public

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    Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure

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    Public sync with private azure-security-docs-pr repo

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