Windows Server Summit 2026 – Day 3
Introduction to Windows Server Summit 2026 Day 3 The final day of the Windows Server Summit 2026 shifted the spotlight from overarching hybrid control planes toward core infrastructure, protocol modernization,…
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Windows Server Summit 2026 – Day 2
Windows Server Summit 2026 Day 2 continues to celebrate that Windows Server 2025 is now over a year old. After Day 1 and it’s focus on roadmapping, Windows Server 2025…
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Windows Server Summit 2026 – Day 1
Windows Server Summit 2026 to celebrate that Windows Server 2025 is now over a year old and after the Windows Server 2025 we now did get insights into today, tomorrow…
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Active Directory Visualization (Free Tools)
Designing and documenting Active Directory (AD) structures is always a long and complex exercise. Historically, this required either building full lab environments or settling for static Visio diagrams that became…
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AGPM is End of Life on 14 April 2026
AGPM is End of Life on 14 April 2026. Microsoft’s Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) reaches its official End of Life (EOL) on April 14, 2026. After this date, the…
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A Debt-Aware Approach to Architectural Decision Records
Architectural Decision Records can help will speed up your decision making processes. My Debt-Aware ADR Model helps here. to get to a structured way to turn hidden liabilities and slow-moving…
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Windows Patching: Operations Runs the Platform, Not the Risk
If you spend enough years in IT operations and Windows Patching, you eventually reach a moment of clarity. You realize that Windows patching is not a technical problem. It is…
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Windows DNS Performance Testing
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”,…
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2025 Review from Andreas Hartig
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…
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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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