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Why Microsoft 365 Local Matters: A Real Future for Disconnected & Sovereign On-Premises Environments

Why Microsoft 365 Local? With Microsoft 365 Local now generally available, Microsoft sends a strong signal: on-premises and sovereign-cloud footprints are not legacy baggage — they remrain strategically relevant. Together…

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Dragon Infrastructure Debt

Timing Is Infrastructure Debt: Why Hybrid Cloud Teams Can’t Wait to Modernise

In this article you’ll discover why the familiar notion of technical debt goes well beyond code—and how in the hybrid-cloud and infrastructure world, the real culprit is often timing. You’ll…

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The 2nd Thing to Enable in Every AD – Protect object from accidental deletion

Protect object from accidential deletion is your 1st line of protection, if you value your OU structure. The checkbox “Protect object from accidental deletion” stops both accidental deletes and moves….

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Dragon Active Directory Recycle Bin

The First Thing to Enable in Every AD – Active Directory Recycle Bin

The Active Directory Recycle Bin is not a “nice-to-have” in 2025 — it’s mandatory. It allows fast, attribute-preserving recovery of deleted AD objects without the pain of authoritative restores. It…

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Notepad++ – Most important AddOns 2025

Notepad++ is my favourite notebook and editor is actually perfect, but it can always be better. For this reason, there are a few “quality of life” improvements that I use…

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Automation via Group Policyv2

Automation using Group Policy – Background

Automation using Group Policy is most likely the easiest step in your environment for custimzation. In one of the latest Blog articles we looked into “Group Policies and Group Policies…

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My new Customized Windows Terminal settings.json 2025

A Customized Windows Terminal is fun and shows ownership. That’s why every once in a while I have to improve my personal terminal configuration set. This time I have updated…

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Test Latency to Azure Regions 2025

Test Latency to Azure Regions, if users feel your app is “slow,” as nine times out of ten they’re feeling latency, not CPU. In Azure, that latency comes from three…

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Create a Service on Windows Server 2025

Service on Windows Server 2025? Shouldn’t that happen automatically? Sometimes you want to run an executable as a service. Normally you get this feeling, when services you rely on do…

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Windows Server 2025 Autologon: When and Why?

Windows Server 2025 Autologon is a challenging discussion. Learn why, when and how to enable Autologon in Windows Server 2025 safely, plus robust mitigation strategies. A reboot that lands on…

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