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Tutorial Virtualization Intermediate

Recovering a Lost ESXi or vCenter Password

"Recover the vCenter password" is three different jobs wearing one sentence, and picking the wrong one wastes an afternoon. Before touching anything, decide which credential you have actually lost: The ESXi host root acc...

Lab Tutorials & Labs Beginner 3 hours

Lab: Build an Active Directory Environment on Hyper-V

This lab builds a working Active Directory environment on Hyper-V: two domain controllers, a member server, and a client, on an isolated network. It is the foundation for practising Group Policy, certificate services, re...

  • Create an isolated Hyper-V network with NAT for updates
  • Promote a forest root domain controller and verify with dcdiag
  • Add a second domain controller and confirm replication health
  • Configure DHCP and a practical OU structure
Tutorial Linux & Windows Server Intermediate

systemd Service Hardening

Most Linux services run with far more privilege than they need. systemd includes a sandboxing framework that removes most of it declaratively — no container runtime, no separate tooling, just directives in a unit file. T...