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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 with CISO

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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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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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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