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Practical systems-engineering guides, investigations, and implementation notes by Michaël Vandenbulcke.
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Build daily CMTrace-compatible logs with reader-friendly file sharing, serialized append retries, console fallback, and automatic retention.
Investigating a slow sign-in on a hybrid-joined Windows Server with blocked Microsoft connectivity, and the immediate result after a local leave.
Work around an Azure CLI login failure on Windows by clearing the account state and disabling the Web Account Manager broker.
Resolve the source agent driver warning that blocks VMware VMs from moving from classic to modernized Azure Site Recovery replication.
A field-tested walkthrough for installing Azure Stack HCI 23H2, configuring two switchless nodes, registering them with Azure Arc, and deploying the cluster.
Use Group Policy Preferences and per-server Active Directory groups to manage Log on as a service and Log on as a batch job rights at scale.