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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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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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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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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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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Secure Access Without the “Bastion Tax”

In the past, securing your Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) often felt like a trade-off between security and budget. If you wanted to avoid the risks of exposing RDP or SSH…

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How to Uninstall Azure Arc from Windows Server 2026

Why do we need to Uninstall Azure Arc or Azure Arc Setup? Windows Server 2025 ships with the Azure Arc Setup feature baked in. You’ll notice a new tray icon…

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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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