Windows Secure Boot Certificates Expire in June and October 2026 – Readiness Checks, Troubleshooting, and VMware vSphere Fixes
Microsoft has announced that the original Secure Boot certificates introduced with Windows and UEFI Secure Boot in 2011 are approaching…
Mastering Packet Monitor (Pktmon) on Windows
For years, troubleshooting network traffic on Windows servers often meant installing third-party tools like Wireshark or Npcap directly on production…
Mastering Hyper-V Clusters with iSCSI and Multipath I/O (CSV)
While Storage Spaces Direct leverages local disks for software-defined storage as shown in my last post here, many Hyper-V clusters…
Mastering Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) transforms local disks into highly available, software-defined storage for Hyper-V clusters, without the need for a…
How to use the Serial Console and Special Administration Console (SAC) for VMware vSphere Windows Virtual Machines
When managing Windows virtual machines in VMware vSphere, mostly we can rely on RDP or vSphere Console for access. But…
Mastering Windows Updates & Microsoft Updates – Part 2
In Part 1 we will see how to master Windows Updates successfully, why they sometimes fail, and what we can do in…
Mastering Windows Updates & Microsoft Updates – Part 1
Behind that simple “Check for updates” button lies a complex system of services, agents, stacks, and rules. In this post,…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 3 (Connect to Windows VMs)
In Part 2 we saw the different access methods we can use to connect to our Linux virtual machine instances. Further we saw…
VMware vSphere boot loop when trying to boot from Windows Server 2025 ISO
When trying to install Windows Server 2025 on vSphere, I was running into an known issue which actually requires a…
Installing and running Windows 11 on VMware vSphere
Before we can create a new Windows 11 virtual machine in vSphere, we first need to enable the vSphere Native…
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