Leo D'Arcy
Cloud Solution Architect, Creator of DPC and Conference Speaker
📋 Biography
Leo is a Cloud Solution Architect at Brunswick Group where he leads the design and development of systems for internal business use. In a previous life, Leo spent 10 years designing, implementing and troubleshooting Microsoft infrastructure solutions. From System Center to Azure, Remote Desktop Services to Intune, Leo has built solutions for customers of every size. He has a passion for automation and has expanded into full software development where he is the creator of the Always On VPN Dynamic Profile Configurator (DPC). In his non-working life, he is the father of an amazing daughter and enjoys setting off fireworks (with or without PowerShell)
✨ High-Impact Contributions 3
Andrew sits down with Leo D'Arcy, cloud solutions architect and PSConfEU speaker, to talk certificates, PKI infrastructure, and why so many organizations get it so spectacularly wrong. Leo shares how a decade of consulting work in remote access solutions pulled him into the world of Active Directory Certificate Services whether he liked it or not, and how that hands-on experience turned into conference talks and a genuine specialty. The conversation covers the difference between self-signed certs and proper CA infrastructure, why code signing deserves more attention than it gets, and how integrating signing into a CI/CD pipeline is less painful than it sounds. They also get into the "developer-ization" of IT, the underrated value of consulting experience for career growth, and why communicating across teams is just as important as knowing your PowerShell.
Join a bunch of likeminded IT Pros all working with Microsoft Remote Access technologies (and associated infrastructure) from DirectAccess, Always On VPN to Global Secure Access This is also where people can get community support for DPC
DPC attempts to solve the management and operational limitations of Always On VPN by providing a Group Policy interface and profile management agent. This makes profile management easy, solves hard configuration elements like excluding M365 routes from force tunnel and enables modification of advanced settings such as MTU, all through Group Policy (or Intune) DPC aims to make AOVPN easier for administrators to use, quieter for service desks and more seamless for the end users of the VPN