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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Azure Arc – Enable Azure Arc Auto Updates using WSUS and GPOs
While our first part focused on the cloud-native way using Azure Portal and Policy, many IT administrators still prefer or require the reliability of on-premises control. In a traditional IT…
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Windows Server 2025 – Part 9 (WSUS on Windows Server 2025)
WSUS on Windows Server 2025 continues In the previous parts of my Windows Server 2025 series, where I focused heavily on cloud-native management and the new features of Windows Server…
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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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Automation using Group Policy – Quality of Life GPO
Quality of Life GPOs. Finally. My favorite settings. In our previous articles, we established the Group Policies Foundation and discussed the Background of Automation. We also implemented some important GPOs….
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Automation using Group Policy – Configure Time Zone using GPOs
Setting the time zone on a server was often a manual step during the “Out of Box Experience” (OOBE). Let’s Configure Time Zone using GPOs as it might be something…
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Automation using Group Policy – Allow Ping on Windows Server 2025
Let’s be honest: There is nothing more frustrating than deploying a fresh Windows Server 2025 instance, trying to ping it to verify connectivity, and getting a “Request Timed Out.” We…
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What are Microsoft Security Baselines for Windows Server 2025
If you run Windows Server 2025 in production (on-prem, Azure, Azure Arc, “Adaptive Cloud”, homelab-with-a-budget — doesn’t matter), you need to understand “Microsoft Security Baselines for Windows Server 2025” and…
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Azure Arc – Secure a Tier 0 resource – 2025
Secure a Tier 0 resource in 2025 and why traditional ESAE architectures solved early Tier 0 challenges but are no longer sufficient in an era of hybrid and cloud-native identities….
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The 2nd Thing to Enable in Every AD – Protect object from accidental deletion
Protect object from accidential deletion is your 1st line of protection, if you value your OU structure. The checkbox “Protect object from accidental deletion” stops both accidental deletes and moves….
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