Hyper-V Lab Networking: A NAT vSwitch With One Outbound IP
You’ve got a Hyper-V lab on your laptop or a spare server. You want the guest VMs to reach the internet for Windows updates, package installs, license activation, and the…
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Microsoft Entra Password Protection for On-Prem AD: The Clean Teardown
The previous two posts in this series stood up Microsoft Entra Password Protection on an on-prem AD forest — Part 1 walked the architecture and prerequisites, Part 2 walked the…
Microsoft Entra Password Protection for On-Prem AD: The Deployment Walk
Part 1 of this series covered the architecture and prerequisites — the cloud-versus-on-prem split, the proxy-as-egress design, the network ports, the licensing matrix, the FRS-versus-DFSR Sysvol gotcha. With those out…
Microsoft Entra Password Protection for On-Prem AD: Architecture and Prerequisites
Standard Active Directory password policy enforces shape — minimum length, complexity, history, age. Shape doesn’t catch P@ssw.rd or Admin@123: both pass complexity; both are in every credential-stuffing wordlist on the…
Schedule a Nightly PerfMon Capture: Data Collector Set + BLG Analysis
Most live PerfMon use is interactive — open the console, drop a few counters in, watch the graph, close. The interactive view answers “what is happening right now,” but doesn’t…
Enforce SmartScreen Across the Domain via Group Policy
SmartScreen is the cloud-backed reputation check Windows runs against URLs and downloaded files: clicked links route through Microsoft’s phishing-and-malware database, downloaded executables get a hash lookup against known-good and known-bad…
Hyper-V Snapshots Part 3: Clone a VM From a Snapshot via Export and Import
Snapshots in Hyper-V are most often used as rollback points — create one before a risky change, revert if the change misbehaves. There’s a second use that’s less obvious but…
Hyper-V Snapshots Part 2: Merging the AVHDX Chain Back Into the Parent VHDX
Part 1 covered creating, applying, and managing snapshots. This post is the consolidation half — what happens when you delete a snapshot and the differencing-disk overlay has to be merged…