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My Own Little Certificate Authority: AD CS, Auto-Enrollment and Goodbye to “Your Connection Is Not Private”

Illustration of a homelab certificate authority with Windows Server

My Own Little Certificate Authority: AD CS, Auto-Enrollment and Goodbye to “Your Connection Is Not Private”

raphael 29. September 2026

My homelab has three domain controllers, two clients, three iLO management boards and, until last week, exactly...

Day Two Operations: Hardening Three Windows Domain Controllers (and Finding a Clock That Answered to Nobody)

Illustration of hardening Windows Server domain controllers

Day Two Operations: Hardening Three Windows Domain Controllers (and Finding a Clock That Answered to Nobody)

raphael 28. September 2026

In the last post three HP boxes became a Windows Server 2025 domain: AD, DNS, DHCP failover,...

Enough YAML for Now: Three Servers, Windows Server 2025, and a Crash Course on the Dark Side

Illustration of three Windows Server 2025 machines in a homelab

Enough YAML for Now: Three Servers, Windows Server 2025, and a Crash Course on the Dark Side

raphael 23. September 2026

Confession time. After the Nextcloud migration battle log, a double-digit number of playbook runs, one nftables ruleset...

Homelab Rebuild 2026 — Active Directory, Pi-hole Laundering, and a Drive Letter That Refuses to Exist

Illustration of the homelab rebuild with Active Directory

Homelab Rebuild 2026 — Active Directory, Pi-hole Laundering, and a Drive Letter That Refuses to Exist

raphael 22. July 2026

🖥️ Another milestone down in the homelab-to-mini-datacenter project: Active Directory is alive, my desktop has sworn fealty...

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