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140 tutorials and war stories on homelabs, Windows Server, Microsoft 365, networking and security. Searchable, tagged, no pagination maze.

Windows Server Oct 15, 2023 2 min read

Setting Up a Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server Core

Build a Hyper-V failover cluster on Windows Server Core with PowerShell: Failover Clustering, Test-Cluster, New-Cluster, shared storage, failover test.

Windows Server Sep 9, 2023 1 min read

RDS Email Discovery: Subscribe to Your RemoteApp Feed

Let users subscribe to your RDS web feed with just their email address: add a public _msradc TXT record that points to the RDWeb webfeed.aspx URL.

Windows Server Sep 7, 2023 2 min read

Remote Desktop Services, Securing it with Azure MFA!

Part 7 of the Server 2022 RDS series: install the Azure MFA NPS Extension on the RD Gateway, plus the REQUIRE_USER_MATCH and number-matching registry keys.

Microsoft 365 Aug 10, 2023 1 min read

Outlook and Teams open links on Microsoft Edge

Stop Outlook and Teams from opening links in Edge regardless of your default browser: set the BrowserChoice registry value under Office\16.0\common\links.

Windows Server Jul 6, 2023 1 min read

AD Connect - 2 AD Forests with 1 AD Connect server

Video on syncing two separate Active Directory forests to one Azure AD tenant with a single AD Connect server, including the DNS forwarding between them.

Windows Server May 6, 2023 1 min read

Server 2022 - Active Directory Domain - Setup an External Trust

Video on creating an external trust between two separate Active Directory domains on Server 2022 so users from each side can reach the other's resources.

Windows Server Apr 8, 2023 1 min read

Server 2022 - CodeTwo - Active Directory Photos

Video on using the free CodeTwo Active Directory Photos tool to manage user profile photos in Active Directory and sync them to Azure AD.

Entra ID & Intune Apr 1, 2023 1 min read

Intune - Endpoint Privilege Management

Video on enabling Endpoint Privilege Management in Intune so users run as standard users and only get elevated rights when a rule allows it.

Entra ID & Intune Mar 26, 2023 4 min read

Windows Hello for Business - Cloud Kerberos trust deployment

Deploy Windows Hello for Business cloud Kerberos trust: create the Azure AD Kerberos server object, enable WHfB in Intune and push the cloud trust OMA-URI.

Self-hosting · Backup Mar 11, 2023 1 min read

UrBackup - Backup Image Restore

Video showing how to restore a full image backup from UrBackup onto a machine, completing the UrBackup server and client series.