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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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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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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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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