Stepping Back and Recharge : Why I am Taking a One-Year Sabbatical Starting October 2026
Stepping Back and Recharge is important in the fast-paced world of enterprise IT architecture, cloud transformation, and hybrid infrastructure. It still feels like moving backward. For years, my routine has…
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Homelab Hardware: How I Upgraded for vNext, ReFS Boot and Hyper-V
Homelab Hardware has been a challenge in Q3 / Q4 2026. In my previous hands-on post, Deploy Windows Server vNext, I walked through installing Windows Server vNext Insider Preview Build…
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Windows Server vNext ReFS vs. NTFS on the OS Drive
vNext ReFS, what a great match. When Microsoft introduced the Resilient File System (ReFS) back in Windows Server 2012, the vision was clear: replace aging NTFS structures with a modern…
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Free Guides for Azure, M365 and AI Knowledge on MVPTreff.de
Free guides from the German-speaking Microsoft community has completed a fantastic initiative called Hitzefrei on MVPTreff.de. Running through August and September, the project brought together 43 Microsoft MVPs and Community…
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Cool Basement, Quiet Laptop: Building a Dedicated Foundry Local Jump Server on Windows Server 2025
Building a Dedicated Foundry Local Jump Server on Windows Server 2025 to avoid the outside where the asphalt is melting, helpdesk tickets are slowing down, and there is finally time…
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Deploy Windows Server vNext
**** Update – This deployment failed and this guide explains why. As promised in this guide, i started updating my homelab in this guide with a very affordable approach in…
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How to Download and prepare for vNext – Windows Server 2028
Download and prepare for vNext is your first step, to stay ahead in managing your modern infrastructure in the future. With the next generation of Windows Server currently tracking through…
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What Is Windows Server vNext?
For me, managing enterprise infrastructure across hybrid and on-premises environments requires staying ahead of lifecycle milestones and architectural platform shifts. While Windows Server 2025 is actively being rolled out with…
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Managing passwords with Proton Pass
Managing passwords with Proton Pass changed my password management and thus my backbone to manage my IT setup efficiently and secure. For years, local password managers like KeePassXC have been…
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Unifying Local Credential Security – Legacy LAPS, Windows LAPS, and Azure Arc in Practice
Local Credential Security – Managing local administrator credentials across an enterprise fleet has always been a fundamental security control. For years, Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (often called Legacy LAPS…
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