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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
I’ve been testing Windows Server 2025 in my HomeLab, specifically running on a Ugreen NAS. While Ugreen’s hardware is fantastic for storage, its virtualization manager (based on KVM/QEMU) sometimes applies … Read more
Windows Server Event Log for most teams are only used when something already smells like incident:💥 DC misbehaving,💥 file server “mysteriously slow”,💥 SOC asking for “all the logs you have … Read more
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. … Read more
The Active Directory Recycle Bin is not a “nice-to-have” in 2025 — it’s mandatory. It allows fast, attribute-preserving recovery of deleted AD objects without the pain of authoritative restores. It … Read more
Automation using Group Policy is most likely the easiest step in your environment for custimzation. In one of the latest Blog articles we looked into “Group Policies and Group Policies … Read more
