Sharing notes from my ongoing learning journey — what I build, break and understand along the way.
AssetObserve: Making IT Assets More Visible AssetObserve is an IT inventory and risk observation project I have been working on for a while. The starting point is actually quite simple: Which devices exist in a network, what condition are they…
Passing the ITIL 4 Foundation Exam in a Non-Native Language: My Experience and Study Notes I had not been able to publish a new blog post for a while. One of the reasons was that I was preparing for the…
Creating an SAP BTP Subaccount, Cloud Foundry Environment and Space with Terraform In this post, I used Terraform to perform a small Infrastructure as Code experiment on SAP Business Technology Platform. My goal was not to build a large and…
Enterprise Deployment of Sandbox Quick Open with Microsoft Edge, GPO and Native Messaging In the first part of this project, I explained how Sandbox Quick Open can be installed and used on a local Windows machine. The local version allows…
How to Open Suspicious Files and Links Safely with Windows Sandbox On Windows, we occasionally come across files, folders, or links that we are not completely sure about. This happens even more often when working in IT: a ZIP file,…
Setting Up a Sample SAP BTP Landing Zone for S/4HANA Side-by-Side Extensions I had been seeing concepts such as directories, subaccounts, entitlements, quotas, Cloud Foundry, service instances, subscriptions, and transport management in SAP BTP for a while. Each of them…
My First Day with SAP BTP Trial: Creating a Destination and Building a Simple API Demo I recently started learning SAP BTP, and I wanted my first practice session to be more than just clicking through menus. I had already…
Building an Enterprise Root Certificate Authority with AD CS In this lab, I installed Active Directory Certificate Services on Server2 in my GFNLAB.Test domain environment and configured it as an Enterprise Root Certification Authority. I had already prepared the domain…
Part 3: Deploying a Shared Printer with Group Policy Preferences 1. Introduction In this part of the Active Directory and Group Policy lab series, I will deploy a shared printer to a user by using Group Policy Preferences. In the…
Part 2: Department-Based Network Drive Mapping with Group Policy 1. Introduction In this part of the Active Directory and Group Policy lab series, I will configure department-based network drive mapping by using Group Policy Preferences. In Part 1, I configured…