I had nearly 1,000 identities or other secrets stored in a single database. Over the years I’d become pretty good at managing and using KeePass for my needs. KeePass is free, as in you can voluntarily make a donation to keep the development efforts going. I’d dabbled with KeePass several times and while it was slightly rough on the edges I somehow stuck to it. Many systems at the time did not support Facebook authentication or Azure AD single sign-on so I had individual accounts for many systems. I had amassed a formidable collection of passwords. I left Microsoft exactly 10 years ago, and we started our own company with my brother.

As an IT Pro I’ve used everything from text files stored on Windows Desktop to encrypted Excel files to post-it notes to reusing the same password (“R3member1”, “R3m3mber2”.) to forgetting my password and resetting it. I can’t quite remember when I started using a password manager, or which password manager it was at the time. Thanks for reading my blog! If you have any questions or need a second opinion with anything Microsoft Azure, security or Power Platform related, don't hesitate to contact me.

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