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AliMalik5615/README.md

Ali Malik

ICT Support Engineer based in South Australia. Interested in Systems Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, and Support Engineering roles. This profile hosts home lab builds and automation work demonstrating Windows Server administration, Microsoft cloud services, and end-user support tooling.

🖥️ System Administration

Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, domain services.

  • GPO Software Deployment — Two-tier software deployment via GPO: baseline MSIs to all workstations and per-request approved programs via security group filtering. Scoped through a dedicated Workstations OU with documented design iteration.
  • AD GPO Drive Mapping Lab — OU-scoped department drive mapping with share and NTFS permission layering on Windows Server 2022.
  • Windows Firewall GPO Baseline — Centrally managed deny-by-default firewall policy with scoped allow rules for RDP and ICMP.
  • Coming soon: AD OU and security group design, GPO baseline policies, PowerShell user provisioning.

🛠️ Support Engineering

Endpoint management, service desk automation, user-facing tooling.

  • Meeting Room Manager — PowerShell tool for Exchange Online meeting room provisioning. Workbook-driven bulk create, modify, delete, and audit of room mailboxes with pre-execution planning, typed confirmation guards, and colour-coded Expected vs Actual audit output. Reduced provisioning time from ~45 minutes to under 5 minutes.
  • Coming soon: PowerShell folder access permission tool, endpoint imaging workflow.

☁️ Cloud Administration

Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Microsoft 365.

  • Coming soon: Entra ID tenant setup, Intune device enrolment, Azure resource deployment with ARM/Bicep.

Lab environment

Windows Server 2022 Datacenter domain controller and Windows 11 Pro client, running on VMware Workstation. Domain: mylab.local.

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  1. meeting-room-manager meeting-room-manager Public

    PowerShell tool for Exchange Online meeting room provisioning — create, modify, delete, and audit room mailboxes from a workbook

    PowerShell 1

  2. AliMalik5615 AliMalik5615 Public

  3. ad-gpo-drive-mapping-lab ad-gpo-drive-mapping-lab Public

    OU-scoped department drive mapping via Group Policy — layered share and NTFS permissions on Windows Server 2022, with client-side verification.

  4. sysadmin-firewall-gpo-baseline sysadmin-firewall-gpo-baseline Public

    Centrally managed Windows Defender Firewall baseline via GPO — deny-by-default inbound, scoped allow rules for RDP and ICMP, domain-linked

  5. sysadmin-gpo-software-deployment sysadmin-gpo-software-deployment Public

    Two-tier software deployment via GPO on Windows Server 2022 — baseline MSIs to all workstations and per-request approved programs via security group filtering. Scoped through a dedicated Workstatio…