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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 … Read more

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My new Customized Windows Terminal settings.json 2024

I wanted to personalize my Terminal setting as part of upcoming articles and being more technical lately. Turned out… it’s not that easy and you require some reading of documentation. … Read more

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Windows Terminal 2024 on Windows 11 with Azure, Ubuntu, CMD and Powershell

Install Windows Terminal 2024

With just a few command you can run your CMD, a Linux Bash, PowerShell and Azure Cloud Shell in One Terminal Screen under current versions of Windows 10 & Windows … Read more

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Windows Home Edition – Group Policy Editor

If you are using a Windows Home version and want to make a setting via Group Policy, you will find that there is no Group Policy Manager under Windows Home … Read more

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Windows Linux Subsystem on Windows 11

Install Windows Linux Subsystem 2 (easy)

With just one command you can run a Linux under current versions of Windows 10 & Windows 11. Introduction to WSL Are you using Windows 10 or 11 at the … Read more

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Powershell, Domain Controller

Powershell – List all domain controllers and more for the new Windows Server 2025

How do you create a list of all domain controllers (DCs) with a few commands and write it to a CSV file? Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format … Read more

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Active Directory – Group Policy Report

If you want to quickly sort or filter the GPOs in the Active Directory by name or by enabled computer or user GPO settings, it is best to use Powershell. … Read more

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Windows Server 2025 – Part 4 (Services Removed)

Microsoft is removing services or components from Windows Server 2025 or stopped developing them. Services Removed with Windows Server 2025 Feature Explanation IIS 6 Management Console (Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console) The console has … Read more

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PortqueryUI Testen der Verbindung zum Domain Controller

Active Directory – Check communication (portqueryUI)

Overview With network segmentation, domain controllers often have to configured on a firewall. How do you test, verify and document the functioniality or errors? You often have to run tests, … Read more

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Starlink and quick Windows Admin Center in Azure in 2024

Starlink is an amazing solution to the “work anywhere” problem, and I’m using it to get ready for my sabbatical in 2026. I’m thrilled to have the chance to use … Read more

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