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# Directives from a Director

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Field notes by on PowerShell automation, NetApp storage and systems, plus what running IT teaches you along the way. 174 posts since 2007.

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  1. Hyper-V to Talos: Rethinking the Virtualization Stack#Hyper-V#Talos Linux#Kubernetes
  2. Google Cloud: IAM Least Privilege in Practice, Not Just in Theory#Google Cloud
  3. Windows Management: A Discovery Inventory Nobody Maintains by Hand#Discovery#windows#Active Directory
  4. Talos Linux: Upgrading a Cluster Without a Maintenance Window#Talos Linux#Kubernetes
  5. Data Warehouse: Reusable SQL Models for IT Operations Metrics#Data Warehouse#reporting#sql
  6. Azure: Cost Governance Without Killing Developer Velocity#Azure
  7. Intune: Conditional Access Policies That Don't Lock Out Your Help Desk#Intune#Entra ID
  8. Infrastructure: What a Real Disaster Recovery Test Actually Reveals#backup#Hyper-V
  9. Infrastructure: Documenting an Undocumented Network, Discovery First#Discovery#network#Python
  10. Kubernetes: Running Talos Alongside a Legacy Hyper-V Estate#Talos Linux#Kubernetes#Hyper-V
  11. Windows Server: TCP Stack Tuning for a 10GbE Storage Network#windows#TCP Tuning#network
  12. Windows Server: Disabling IPv6 Company-Wide — What Actually Broke#windows#IPv6#Group Policy
  13. Windows 11: A Debloat and Hardening Baseline for New Deployments#Windows 11#Debloat#Group Policy
  14. Hyper-V: Migrating VMs Off an Aging Cluster Without Downtime#Hyper-V#cluster
  15. Hyper-V: Deploying a Two-Node Failover Cluster on a Budget#Hyper-V#cluster
  16. Data Warehouse: When to Stop Querying Production and Build a Warehouse#Data Warehouse#sql#Python

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