What actually fixed it — and why.
Deep notes on Active Directory, PowerShell, and the infrastructure that pages you at 3am. Every fix here ran in a real homelab first. Pick your situation:
“I’m new to Active Directory.”
Start the 13-part concept series, sequenced so each idea rests on the last.
open the series → for the on-call“Something’s broken right now.”
Troubleshooting filed by the literal error text — search the symptom.
search by symptom → for the automator“I need to script this away.”
PowerShell modules and pipelines pulled from the toolkit that runs the lab.
open the toolkit → for the builder“I’m standing up a homelab.”
Proxmox, chrony/NTP, and Windows Server 2025 DCs, scaled to one box.
open the homelab →-
Print and Document Services
Windows · Print Services Print and Document Services Print and Document Services is the Windows Server role that turns a server into a central print server, and getting driver isolation…
Two ways in: sequenced chapters meant to be read in order, or the full topic index for everything else.
- Active Directory (46)
- AD Concept Series (13)
- AI Tools (21)
- Claude Code (10)
- Codex (9)
- DevOps (13)
- Terraform (13)
- Homelab (7)
- Proxmox (4)
- NTP (4)
- PowerShell (17)
- PowerShell Basics (7)
- PowerShell Scripts (7)
- Troubleshooting (22)
- Windows (20)
Newest first — this feed keeps itself current as new notes publish.
I run the systems nobody notices — until they break.
I’m Shankar, a Senior SRE in Mangalore. This manual is where I write down what actually fixed the problem and why, in plain language — the notes I wish I’d had at 3am, tested in a homelab before they reach you.
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