Welcome to my personal blog—a space where I share real-world IT strategies, PowerShell automation, and cloud projects alongside life reflections, spiritual insights, and personal milestones.
From scripting fixes to soul-deep realizations, each post reflects what I’ve learned in both the server room and the quiet room. Whether you’re here for the tech or the testimony, there’s something here for you.
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Weekly Posts on IT, Life Lessons, and Inner Strength
💻Dec 17, 2025 – High-Availability Engineering: Implementing Geo-Redundancy and Real-Time Heartbeats
💻Dec 10, 2025 – How to Install Sysmon on Windows 11 (Step-by-Step Guide)
💻Dec 3, 2025 – Advanced Exchange Online Security and Compliance.
💻 Nov 28, 2025 – My Essential IT Troubleshooting Guide
💻 Nov 26, 2025 – Terraform made simple
💻 Nov 25, 2025 – CIS for M365 (Hardening & Best Practices)
💻 Nov 24, 2025 – Email Retention in M365 (Best Practices)
💻 Nov 23, 2025 – The Evolution of Microsoft Exchange: From 5.0 to Exchange Online (EXO)
💻 Nov 22, 2025 – DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance)
💻 Nov 21, 2025 – Why PowerShell Still Beats Purview for Real Forensics
💻 Nov 20, 2025 – Terraform for M365 & Azure
💻 Nov 18, 2025 – Quick “Reflexes” Using PowerShell to Block Bad Actors
💻 Nov 17, 2025 – Litigation Hold in Microsoft 365
💻 Nov 15, 2025 – DKIM Security: How Signing and Key Rotation Stop Email Spoofing
💻 Nov 12, 2025 – Exchange Online Throttling Policies
💻 Nov 06, 2025 – Why RFC Email Standards Are Not Enough
💻 Oct 31, 2025 – Path to Become a Developer
💻 Oct 31, 2025 – Path to Become an Infrastructure Engineer
💻 Oct 17, 2025 – Email Spoofing Explained
💻 Oct 12, 2025 – How BEC (Business Email Compromise) and EAC (Email Account Compromise)
💻 Oct 9, 2025 – How I Protected VIP Mailboxes in Exchange
💻 Oct 06, 2025 – A 10-Command Playbook to Stop Email Impersonation
💻 Oct 04, 2025 – Pulling M365 Sign-in Locations via AzureADPreview
💻 Oct 01, 2025 – Restoring Delivery Safely: SCL-1 + Tenant Allow/Block List
💻 Sep 19, 2025 – Cloning a VM with PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI
💻 Sep 14, 2025 – Fixing a “Sender not allowed” Everyone DL
💻 Sep 9, 2025 – Ops Note — Picking the best vSAN host with one PowerCLI check
💻 Sep 4, 2025 – Fixing “Sender not allowed” to an internal group (Exchange Online) — a quick forensic + runbook
💻 Sep 1, 2025 – Outlook Won’t Send, Can’t Search, or Stuck on “Updating”? A One-Page Fix (for Everyone)
💻 Aug 31, 2025 – When a “Microsoft” alert hijacks your screen after a spoofed Facebook call
💻 Aug 25, 2025 – PC Suddenly Slow? Here’s a 60 seconds triage before calling IT
💻 Aug 21, 2025 – Secure Azure setup with Entra ID, Bastion, and private VM
💻 Aug 18, 2025 — Hot-cloning a Running Windows 11 VM in vSphere
💻 Aug 14, 2025 — The Cloud Above Us AWS, Azure, GCP
💻 Aug 10, 2025 Blog: Secure Automation with PowerShell SecretManagement: Simplifying Credential Management for IT Pros
💻 Aug 5, 2025 Blog:Migrating Azure AD Scripts to Microsoft Graph PowerShell: A Practical Guide for IT Administrators
💻 July 29, 2025 Blog:Fixing Disabled Azure AD Accounts: PowerShell vs Portal
💻 July 25, 2025 Blog:How to Bypass Spam Filtering for Internal Senders Using PowerShell
💻 July 20, 2025 Blog:Because I Have Been Given Much, I Too Must Give
💻 July 16, 2025 Blog:Ransomware: What It Is and How I Survived Multiple Attacks
💻 July 12, 2025 Blog:From IIS Logs to Iron Discipline: How My Son and I Share the Same Grit in Fitness and IT
💻 July 8, 2025 Blog: Where I Leave the Past, and Meet Myself Again
💻 July 4, 2025 Blog:I Am Grateful to Be in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave
💻 June 27, 2025 Blog:When the Strong Get Tired: Finding Strength in the Silence
💻 June 22, 2025 Blog:Please Wait: When the Helper Needs Help
💻 June 15, 2025 Blog:A Father’s Day Flashback – Pancakes, Peter Pan, and a Heart Full of Memories
💻 June 8, 2025 Blog:Why I Still Use PowerShell Every Week
💻 June 1, 2025 Blog: The Ultimate IT Troubleshooting Framework
💻 May 25, 2025 Blog: 5 Essential Cloud Solutions for IT Admins
💻 May 18, 2025, 2025 Blog:Strength Is Survival
💻 May 10, 2025, 2025 Blog:How I Deployed and Cleaned Up a Windows Server VM in Azure with PowerShell
💻 May 2, 2025, 2025 Blog:The Price of Gaining Respect in the IT World
💻 April 26, 2025 Blog: What Is SIEM? Why it matters, what it solves, and how to implement it effectively.
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