Active Directory Planning Tool: Mapping Structures and Delegations with SMAD-X
Using an Active Directory Planning Tool is key for understanding complex Active Directory environments and often requires more than what traditional management consoles can provide. While tools such as Active…
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AD Account Lockout (Free Tool)
The AD Account Lockout tool is free and very valuable in troubleshooting account lockouts in Active Directory. This is a task as old as the directory service itself. Even in…
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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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Modern Windows Event Viewer – EventLogExpert
The project Windows Event Viewer – EventLogExpert provides a modern open-source toolset that fundamentally improves the way we interact with Windows Event Logs. Since troubleshooting .evtx files is often a…
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Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh – personalization for improved coding
Windows Terminal and Oh My Posh are a great combination! In the past we looked here at how to utilize the Windows Terminal in a personalized way to improve usability…
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WinGet and IaC – Take Winget to the next level
WinGet and IaC are maybe your next step to automate your environment. In the past, managing third-party applications on Windows meant 3rd party tools or gathering MSI installers on network…
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Tail for log files with Windows – 2026 Edition
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…
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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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Windows Server Event Log and Event Log Policies
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…
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Notepad++ – Most important AddOns 2025
Notepad++ is my favourite notebook and editor is actually perfect, but it can always be better. For this reason, there are a few “quality of life” improvements that I use…
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