Microsoft is gracious enough to provide a yearly $2,000 grant to all 501c3 nonprofits that apply for it. The problem is that the steps to apply the grant to your Azure subscription aren’t intuitive. Every year I dread reapplying for…
Looking for a way to auto enable BitLocker on all of your Windows 10 and Windows 11 endpoints? Microsoft allows for setting up BitLocker settings in Active Directory through GPOs (Group Policy Objects), but there isn’t a built-in option to…
Are you looking for a disaster recovery solution for your on-prem servers? In this post we’ll walk through the steps to setup a MABS (Microsoft Azure Backup Server), and configure it to backup to Azure Recovery Services and locally. Requirements…
I recently migrated a Windows server to AWS and realized that the disk size on the root volume was was way too big for the utilization. So, what I thought I could do was reduce the volume size in Disk…
If you manage a handful of servers then OS updates can be done manually, but if you manage hundreds or thousands of servers then that’s a different story. You need an automated response to server updates. Enter Patch Manager, an…
For those of you wanting to setup AWS Config Remediation I’ve listed the steps below. I walked through this process on a YouTube video, but since there are a few steps more than usual I decided to create this post. …
In this post, we’ll explore how Windows Terminal can revolutionize your command line experience inside of Windows 11. Windows Terminal offers a streamlined interface for maximizing productivity when working in the command prompt, bash or Powershell, all at the same…
As a Linux administrator, CentOS has likely been a trusted choice for your server environments for many years. However, recent changes with CentOS have left many administrators searching for alternative distributions that align better with their needs. In this blog…
Over the years I’ve tested many aspects of Microsoft’s Active Directory. Sometimes those tests resulted in unforeseen consequences on my production environment. When Hyper-V came along it was the perfect tool to test different environments including Active Directory. In this…
One of the major responsibilities for anyone who manages their company’s cloud workloads is keeping costs down. I’m constantly looking at alternative EC2 instance types (Virtual Machines for Azure), to see if I can move to newer and cheaper compute.…