I view a lot of log files—probably more than I’d like to admit. Whether it’s troubleshooting a hybrid infrastructure issue or debugging a cloud deployment, I always look for the … Read more
Quality of Life GPOs. Finally. My favorite settings. In our previous articles, we established the Group Policies Foundation and discussed the Background of Automation. We also implemented some important GPOs. … Read more
Setting the time zone on a server was often a manual step during the “Out of Box Experience” (OOBE). Let’s Configure Time Zone using GPOs as it might be something … Read more
Let’s be honest: There is nothing more frustrating than deploying a fresh Windows Server 2025 instance, trying to ping it to verify connectivity, and getting a “Request Timed Out.” We … Read more
DNS issues don’t always show up as clear outages. Often they show up as annoying browser behaviour like “random delays on first page load”, “sometimes it works, sometimes it spins”, … Read more
If you run Windows Server 2025 in production (on-prem, Azure, Azure Arc, “Adaptive Cloud”, homelab-with-a-budget — doesn’t matter), you need to understand “Microsoft Security Baselines for Windows Server 2025” and … Read more
Check below if you want to read my 2025 Review. 2025 was one of those years where everything moves at once — work, community, and the personal projects you thought … Read more
I’ve been testing Windows Server 2025 in my HomeLab, specifically running on a Ugreen NAS. While Ugreen’s hardware is fantastic for storage, its virtualization manager (based on KVM/QEMU) sometimes applies … Read more
Windows Server Event Log for most teams are only used when something already smells like incident:💥 DC misbehaving,💥 file server “mysteriously slow”,💥 SOC asking for “all the logs you have … Read more
In this article you’ll explore how security, governance and lifecycle risk converge in modern infrastructure, why the recent Microsoft SFI report matters for hybrid-cloud and on-prem environments, and how you … Read more
