OIDC Federation Cheat Sheet

What's Inside the PDF

• Workload Identity Federation — the practical commands and patterns you actually use in production Windows work.
• Oidc Cicd — the practical commands and patterns you actually use in production Windows work.
• Most-used commands grouped by task, not alphabetically, so you find what you need by intent.
• Common flag combinations with one-line comments explaining what each option actually does.
• Real-world examples that show inputs and expected outputs, not contrived hello-world snippets.
• Edge cases and gotchas that the official documentation buries on page 47.
• Print-friendly layout that works equally well on screen and on paper next to your monitor.

When to Use This Cheat Sheet

• 1Troubleshooting endpoint problems — boot failures, profile corruption, Windows Update errors, group policy not applying.
• 2Managing fleets via Group Policy, Intune, MDT, SCCM/MECM, or Windows Admin Center.
• 3Hardening servers and workstations against ransomware, credential theft, and lateral movement.
• 4Performing forensics with Event Viewer, `wevtutil`, Sysmon, and PowerShell event log queries.
• 5Automating user, group, file share, and printer management with PowerShell instead of GUI clicks.

Key Concepts to Master

Pro Tips from Practitioners

• Always run administrative consoles "as a different user" with a dedicated admin account. Daily-use accounts should never be local or domain admin.
• Use Sysinternals tools (Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Autoruns, PsExec) — they are still the gold standard for Windows troubleshooting.
• Enable Windows Defender Application Control or AppLocker on critical hosts — most malware execution is stopped before it starts.
• Forward security event logs to a central WEC collector or SIEM. Local logs are deleted by attackers who gain admin.
• Patch monthly, reboot promptly. Most exploited Windows CVEs have patches available for months before exploitation.