Claude Code · Part 3 Claude Code — Part 3 — Creating and Navigating Your First Project What actually happens the first time you point Claude Code at a folder,…
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Claude Code · Part 4 Claude Code — Part 4 — Understanding and Writing CLAUDE.md CLAUDE.md is the file that stops you from re-explaining the same project conventions every single…
Claude Code · Part 5 Claude Code — Part 5 — Creating a Custom Skill A Skill packages a repeatable procedure so it runs on demand instead of being re-explained…
Claude Code · Part 6 Claude Code — Part 6 — Subagents and the Agent Tool A subagent runs a side task in its own context window and reports back…
Claude Code · Part 7 Claude Code — Part 7 — Permissions, settings.json, and Hooks CLAUDE.md shapes what Claude tries to do. Permissions and hooks control what Claude Code actually…
Claude Code · Part 8 Claude Code — Part 8 — Common Claude Code Issues and Fixes A standing reference for the runtime problems that show up after installation: settings…
Claude Code · Part 9 Claude Code — Part 9 — Connecting External Tools with MCP MCP lets Claude Code read and act on systems outside your local filesystem, a…
PowerShell · Basics PowerShell Splatting — Cleaning Up Commands with Many Parameters A practical guide to splatting, the PowerShell technique that turns a command buried under ten inline parameters into…
Active Directory · Troubleshooting Event 4771 — Kerberos Pre-Authentication Failed Event 4771 fires every time a domain controller refuses to hand out a Ticket Granting Ticket, and the Failure Code…
Windows · File Shares SMB File Shares — Share vs NTFS Permissions Share permissions and NTFS permissions are two separate gates on the same folder, they never add together, and…
Windows · DHCP DHCP Server Role — Scopes, Reservations, and Failover DHCP exists so nobody has to walk around typing IP addresses into individual machines, and almost every DHCP administration…
SMB · Troubleshooting “Access Is Denied” Mapping a Drive Over SMB A drive mapping that fails with nothing but “Access is denied” is the network telling you it worked exactly…
Windows · Hyper-V Hyper-V Basics Hyper-V is the virtualization role built into Windows Server and Windows itself, and three decisions – VM generation, virtual switch type, and checkpoint type –…
PowerShell · Functions Writing PowerShell Advanced Functions A practical guide to turning a plain PowerShell function into an advanced function that validates its input, behaves correctly in the pipeline, and…
Kerberos · Troubleshooting Kerberos Constrained Delegation Not Working Constrained delegation almost always breaks in the same place — a middle-tier service that is not actually trusted to hand off a…
AI Tools · Choosing by Use Case Choosing the Right AI Tool for the Job A practical breakdown of which AI tool actually fits each job — coding, research, writing,…
Windows · Failover Clustering Failover Clustering Failover Clustering keeps a workload running when a server fails by moving it to another node automatically, and almost every design decision in it…
Windows · Storage Spaces Storage Spaces Storage Spaces turns a pile of ordinary disks into pooled, resilient storage without a hardware RAID controller, and almost every configuration choice – simple,…
Active Directory · Troubleshooting USN Rollback Detected — Event 2095 A domain controller that was rolled back to an old snapshot or restored the wrong way keeps replicating like nothing…
Active Directory · Troubleshooting RID Pool Exhaustion — Cannot Create New AD Objects New users, groups, and computers suddenly fail to create with the same unhelpful directory-service error, and the…
Homelab · Proxmox Installing Proxmox VE: From ISO to First Login A step-by-step walkthrough of turning a spare box into a Proxmox VE host, from downloading the ISO to the…
Windows · DNS Server Windows DNS Server Windows DNS Server is the role that turns names into addresses for an entire network, and because Active Directory refuses to start without…
Windows · Event Logging Event Viewer and the Windows Event Log Architecture Event Viewer is just the window dressing – the actual system underneath is a set of named channels,…
Active Directory · Troubleshooting LDAPS Fails After the Domain Controller Certificate Expires LDAPS binds that worked for months start failing the moment a domain controller’s Server Authentication certificate crosses its…