Last updated: 13 September 2026
These terms cover your use of IT Pro Insights (itproinsights.com). The site is written and published by Thorsteinn Halldorsson as an independent, one-person technical publication.
Acceptance
By reading, downloading from, or otherwise using this site, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
Using the content
Articles here are published so that IT professionals can read them, learn from them, and apply them at work. You may read, print, and share links to anything on the site, and you may quote short extracts with attribution and a link back to the original article.
What you may not do without written permission: republish articles in full or in substantial part, whether on a website, in a newsletter, or inside a paid product; present the content as your own; or scrape the site in bulk for the purpose of republication or model training. Using an article internally at your own organisation — sending it to a colleague, pasting a procedure into a runbook — is fine and is what it is for.
Code samples
The code, commands, configuration files, and scripts printed inside articles are offered under the MIT licence. You may use, modify, and ship them, including in commercial work, with no obligation to credit this site — though the licence text does need to travel with substantial copies, and the warranty disclaimer below applies to every line of it.
This applies only to the snippets inside articles. The site's prose, images, diagrams, and the software that runs the site are not covered and remain copyrighted.
No warranty — run it at your own risk
This is the part to read twice.
Everything here is provided "as is", with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
The procedures published here change real systems. They create and delete resources, alter identity and access configuration, change network and firewall rules, and modify tenant-wide policy. Cloud platforms also change underneath published guidance: a command that is correct against one API version can be wrong, or destructive, against the next. Many articles carry a "Tested against" line naming the exact product, API, CLI, and module versions the steps were checked against — treat that as an expiry label, not a guarantee.
You are responsible for what you run. Read any command before executing it, understand what it changes, test it somewhere that does not matter first, and take a backup you have actually restored from. Never paste a procedure from this site — or any site — straight into a production tenant.
External links
Articles link to vendor documentation, standards, repositories, and other third-party resources. Those sites are not under our control. We link to them because they were useful and accurate when the article was written; we do not endorse them, we cannot vouch for what they publish later, and we are not responsible for their content, availability, or their handling of your data.
Affiliate links
No affiliate links are currently used on this site. If that changes, every affiliate link will be visibly disclosed where it appears, and the disclosure will be added to the privacy policy at the same time. Commercial relationships never decide what gets covered or what gets recommended — recommendations are made on technical merit alone. See the editorial policy for how that independence is kept.
Advertising
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Advertisers have no input into editorial content, and no advertiser sees an article before it is published.
Intellectual property
The articles, images, diagrams, layout, and site design are the property of the author and are protected by copyright, except for the code samples described above and for third-party material used under its own licence (where that is the case, the licence and required attribution are shown with the material).
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the author is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of this site or of anything published on it. That includes, without limitation, service outages, data loss, corrupted or deleted resources, security incidents, lost profits, and lost business — whether or not the possibility of such loss was foreseeable.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and nothing in these terms affects the statutory rights of a consumer.
Changes to these terms
These terms may change as the site changes. The current version always lives at this URL, and material changes are reflected in the "Last updated" date above. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Iceland, and the courts of Iceland have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.
Contact
Questions about these terms: thorsteinn.halldorsson@gmail.com. Questions about your personal data go to the address named in the privacy policy.