Orin Thomas

A short introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Landing Zones YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

A short introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Landing Zones www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Un...

Azure Migration Challenges (and how to overcome them) YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Azure Migration Challenges (& how to overcome them)
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Azure Decoded: The New Migration & Modernization Foundation Virtual Training Day YouTube video by Microsoft Reactor

A presentation I did for Microsoft Reactor on Migration, Modernization & Agentic Tools www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVI...

Prepare your servers for Secure Boot certificate updates The original Secure Boot certificates introduced in 2011 are approaching the end of their planned lifecycle, with expirations beginning in late June 2026. These certificates must be updated before the...

Prepare your servers for Secure Boot certificate updates
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Secure DNS with DoH: Public Preview for Windows DNS Server | Microsoft Community Hub Bring encrypted, authenticated DNS to Windows DNS Server with our new DoH public preview, designed for Zero Trust‑minded enterprises that want stronger...

Public Preview of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Windows DNS Server aka.ms/dohserver

@wsvguy.bsky.social

DNS & DHCP Server Monitoring, Health & Automation survey for Windows Server Admins (including requests for future features) forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon... (It's always DNS!)

Windows Admin Center Architectural Changes | Microsoft Community Hub Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode is a new experience that helps you manage your virtualization infrastructure across your Hyper-V clusters, storage...

Windows Admin Center Architectural Changes techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Advancing Windows security: Disabling NTLM by default techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...

The new edition of Windows Server Inside Out is available. It includes everything from Securing AD and Hardening Windows Server, to how to host and manage Hyper-V, integrate with Azure Services and how to host generative AI workloads like Ollama and Foundry Local.

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Configure Backup & Recovery for Windows Server IaaS VMs YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Configure Backup & Recovery for Windows Server IaaS VMs hosting IIS websites in an Azure availability set www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP-I...

Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance | Microsoft Community Hub We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025—a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible...

Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025 (~80% IOPS gains over WS22) techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Announcing Support for S2D Campus Cluster on Windows Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub Applies to: Windows Server 2025 Failover Clustering with the 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26100.7462) applied on each Failover Cluster node. First, I...

Announcing Support for S2D Campus Cluster on Windows Server 2025 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...

Deploy and configure an Azure Application Gateway for load balancing and website protection. YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

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Announcing Support for S2D and SAN Coexistence | Microsoft Community Hub Applies to: Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 Failover Clustering Failover Clustering has supported SAN storage since Windows NT 4.0 Server,...

Windows Server Failover Clustering with Storage Spaces Direct & SAN Storage techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/failove...

Overview of Windows Admin Center Virtualization Mode YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Overview of Windows Admin Center Virtualization Mode www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NP...

WSL and the Linux GUI app integration are great.

No need to use WinGet to install Nano to edit files from the terminal - Just use:

edit filename

in Windows Terminal

Same Same, But Different, But Still Same #BattleTech

Deploy Azure DNS Public Zones YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Deploy Azure DNS Public Zones www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsqp...

Install and run Azure Foundry Local LLM server & Open WebUI on Windows Server 2025 YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Install and run Azure Foundry Local LLM server & Open WebUI on Windows Server 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FU...

👀 Microsoft Ignite session catalog!

@birmo.bsky.social Another Book for the BirmoShelf

Enable Certificate-Based Authentication for Windows Admin Center Gateway Servers with AD CS | Microsoft Community Hub Implementing certificate-based authentication for Windows Admin Center (WAC) involves leveraging smart card login (user certificates) in Active Directory. In...

Enable Certificate-Based Authentication for Windows Admin Center Gateway Servers with AD CS techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/itopsta...

Install Latest Version of PowerShell on Windows 11

Customize your PowerShell prompt with Oh-My-Posh

Delegate Active Directory password reset permissions using the Delegation of Control Wizard YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Delegate Active Directory password reset permissions using the Delegation of Control Wizard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5kK...

Install and Configure Windows Server 2025 Server Core YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Install and Configure Windows Server 2025 Server Core www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLV...

Overview of Different Windows Server Management and Administration Tools YouTube video by ITOpsTalk

Overview of Windows Server Management Tools & Finding The Right Tool For The Job www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTZ...

AI Slop Song Teaches You the Windows Registry YouTube video by ThioJoe

This AI generated song about the Windows Registry is great www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAB...