Azure architecture icons in your Documents
If you need to document your Azure setup or showcase a new solution design, it’s best to utilize the official Azure Architecture Icons. Introduction Creating Azure architecture diagrams is essential…
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Overcome Technical Debt in IT Infrastructure 2025
Technical Debt lately is used mostly with Software Engineering and Software Architecture. It is also a critical component to IT Operations and Infrastructure Architectural work. In this article I will…
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Azure Arc – Secure a Tier 0 resource
Understanding Tier 0 Assets In the landscape of IT security, understanding the classification of assets is crucial for effective security posture management. Tier 0 assets refer to the critical infrastructure…
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Windows Server 2025 – Microsoft.OSConfig
With Windows Server 2025, Microsoft introduces significant advancements in security baselines and drift control through the Microsoft.OSConfig PowerShell module, ensuring systems remain compliant and secure. What is OSConfig? With Windows…
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Easy Troubleshooting Common DNS issues in Home Labs
Setting up a home lab is a fantastic way to experiment with networking, virtualization, and various IT services. However, one of the most common issues that can arise in a…
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Becoming an IT Architect: A Comprehensive Guide
How do you become an IT architect and what do you need to learn to fulfill this role and “earn” this “title”? Understanding the Role The title “IT Architect” is…
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Self Host DNS for Security and Privacy
If you want to get more insight into your devices network traffic and increase your security and privacy, you will want to self host your own DNS server. There are…
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Conway’s Law – new and updated August 2024
“Conway’s Law: Why your company’s organisational structure affects your software”. Software Development and Conway’s law In software development, there are many factors that can influence the quality and success of…
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Always choose the right DNS / Active Directory domain name for your 2024 home lab
When setting up your home lab and Active Directory, you will have to decide for the domain nameand also for an Active Directory name. Very often you will see recommendation…
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IT architects Abbreviations used with storage
IT Architects often use abbreviations in the Architectural Elevator and this often doesn’t help our conversation partners with architectural topics. Today I will explain some abbreviations on the subject of…
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