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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,...

Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

Illustration of chasing a homelab server crash

Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

raphael 24. July 2026

🚨 Nothing quite wakes you up like an iLO email at 20:30 telling you a server just...

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