All the Permissions, None of the Context

On the migrations I’ve been brought in on, the apps that cause trouble are usually installed on a few machines that nobody put in the inventory. They don’t show up in discovery. They surface when something changes around them. Hidden dependency App missing from the inventory Installed on a few machines ↓ Any one of these exposes it Something stops working or A user asks where their app went or Old kit gets switched off ↓ The migration absorbs the cost Unplanned work. Sometimes, an outage. It happens all the time: the timeline slips, packaging and testing get redone, and now and again something live goes down. ...

October 23, 2026 · 4 min · Kashif Nazir