Schedule Winget Auto Updates for operational usage
Deploying Winget Auto Updates (WAU) gives you a functional update baseline, for full functionality we need to configure more to get ready for production. If servers query the Winget repository…
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Centralized Software Patch Management: Deploying Winget Auto Updates (WAU) via Active Directory GPO
Deploying Winget Auto Updates for Software Patch Management for managing third-party software updates across an IT infrastructure typically requires expensive enterprise solutions. This article provides a technical guide on how…
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GPO Central Store – Help! My PolicyDefinitions Folder is missing
Your PolicyDefinitions Folder is missing? The GPO Central Store is key for Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) across multiple domain controllers can introduce configuration drift if administrative templates are not…
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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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Azure Arc – Enable Azure Arc Auto Updates using Azure Portal
Azure Arc Auto Updates is key, as the foundation of your hybrid cloud strategy and it’s single contral plane in Azure is the Connected Machine Agent. While we often focus…
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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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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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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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