Hyper-V vs Proxmox in 2026: What Sysadmins Must Know
Hyper-V vs Proxmox in 2026: a practical comparison for sysadmins covering cost, licensing changes, and which hypervisor fits your environment.
Windows Security Configuration Framework Explained
Microsoft’s official way to harden Windows using supported security baselines and tools.
DHCP Congestion on a /24: Superscopes Now, VLANs Later
DHCP congestion on a flat /24: how we bought time with temporary superscopes and a cleanup script, then fixed it properly with VLANs.
MFA for Remote Desktop Gateway with Entra ID (NPS Extension)
Add Microsoft Entra MFA to RD Gateway with the NPS extension: central RD CAP store, RADIUS timeouts, the RDG_CAP policy, and why SMS codes fail on RDP.
Reclaim Space on DFSR: Clean Up Conflict and Deleted Files
Reclaim disk space on a DFSR file server: lower the Conflict and Deleted quota and empty the ConflictAndDeleted folder with WMIC cleanupconflictdirectory.
Hyper-V Backup and Recovery: Strategies and Best Practices
Chapter 6 of the Hyper-V guide: full, incremental and differential backups, Windows Server Backup vs DPM and Veeam, scheduling, and restoring a VM.
Hyper-V Live Migration and Replica (Ch. 5)
Chapter 5 of the Hyper-V guide: set up Live Migration between hosts, enable Hyper-V Replica for disaster recovery and turn on nested virtualization.
Storage in Hyper-V - Managing Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
Chapter 4 of the Hyper-V guide: VHD vs VHDX, fixed, dynamic and differencing disks, creating and attaching disks, expanding them and extending the volume.
Hyper-V Networking: Virtual Switches Explained (Ch. 3)
Chapter 3 of the Hyper-V guide: External, Internal and Private virtual switches, attaching VMs, setting guest IPs, VLAN IDs and bandwidth limits.
Setting Up Your First Virtual Machine in Hyper-V
Chapter 2 of the Hyper-V guide: create your first VM with the wizard, pick Generation 1 or 2, assign memory and a VHDX, install the OS, take checkpoints.
What Is Hyper-V and Why Use It (Hyper-V Guide Ch. 1)
Chapter 1 of the Hyper-V guide: what Hyper-V is, which Windows Server and Windows 10/11 editions include it, system requirements and enabling the role.
Convert a Windows ISO to VHDX for Hyper-V (Automated)
Turn a Windows Server ISO into a ready VHDX template with Convert-WindowsImage, inject unattend.xml and enable NetFx3, all from one PowerShell script.
My New Home Lab Journey - The 2.5 Gbit Network Upgrade
I moved the home lab to 2.5 Gbit with M.2 Realtek adapters and a temporary switch, and found the Windows Update driver caps the link at 1 Gbit.
My New Home Lab Journey
I built a new home lab on three HP ProDesk 600 G4 Minis (i3-8100T, 32 GB, 2 TB NVMe) running Server 2019 Hyper-V, deployed via MDT, with 2.5 Gbit next.
Upgrade Domain Controllers to a Newer Windows Server
Run adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep /gpprep before an in-place domain controller upgrade, with the supported paths from Server 2008 to 2022.
Server 2022 - Installing Active Directory and Setting up DNS
Install Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2022, promote the server to a domain controller and set up the DNS role alongside it.
Server 2022 - Hyper-V - Virtual Machine Templates
Build a sysprepped VM template in Hyper-V on Server 2022 and deploy VMs from it with the included PowerShell script: CPU, RAM, VLAN and disks.
Server 2022 - Hyper-V - Enable Deduplication
Enable Data Deduplication on a Server 2022 Hyper-V host and configure it to shrink the storage used by VM templates and VMs that share the same data.
Server 2022 - Installing Hyper-V Role
Install the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2022 through Server Manager and PowerShell, then do the initial configuration before creating your first VM.