10 Commands That Got Me Through My First Year in IT
My first week on help desk, a user called saying she was locked out of her account. I remoted into […]
How I Build Windows 11 Test VMs in Proxmox (and Join Them to My AD Domain)
Every lab I run — Intune, SCCM, Group Policy testing — starts the same way: a fresh Windows 11 Enterprise
9 CMD Commands to Repair Windows
https://youtu.be/068WcwXQEGs?si=PCUVKyGlnYR8oIDS Years ago, half my help desk tickets weren’t really hard. They were just slow. A machine that wouldn’t update.
File Server & Permissions — Secure Sharing, NTFS Done Right
This is the final episode of the TrevTech homelab series. We’ve built Active Directory, automated it with PowerShell, locked it
The 5 Podcasts That Carried Me From Night Shifts to Sysadmin
I didn’t learn IT in a classroom. I learned a huge chunk of it standing in a warehouse at 3am
DNS & DHCP From Scratch — The Services Keeping Your Lab Alive
Active Directory stood up DNS for us automatically when we promoted the domain controller in Episode 1. That was convenient
The 7 Help Desk Interview Questions You’ll Get Asked — and the Answers That Work
Every answer below is written out word for word, exactly as promised. Print it. Stick it next to your mirror.
Group Policy Deep-Dive — The 4 GPOs I Set Up (and the One That Wiped an Office)
Early in my career I set up my first real Group Policy Object and wiped out every browser shortcut in
Am I Too Old to Get Into IT? Why Age Isn’t the Problem
Let me be real with you. If you’ve ever looked at getting into IT and quietly thought “I’ve probably left
PowerShell for Active Directory — Stop Clicking, Start Scripting
If you set up Active Directory by clicking through the GUI in Episode 1, good. You learned the shape of