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Welcome to my Home Lab documentation! This book serves as a centralized knowledge base for the design, configuration, and ongoing management of my personal IT infrastructure. It includes detailed notes, guides, troubleshooting steps, and configurations for the...

This page outlines how I installed, configured, and currently use Proxmox VE as the foundation of my home lab virtualization platform. It includes steps for installing Proxmox, setting up storage, creating virtual machines and LXC containers, and using templat...

This section outlines the physical hardware powering my virtualization environment. It includes both compute and network components that support VM hosting, containerization, and service reliability. 🖥️ Primary Host (Proxmox Node) pve Primary Node for all ...

📄 Description: This page documents the complete process for installing BookStack, a self-hosted wiki and knowledge base, on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 server using PHP, Nginx, and MariaDB. This service is used as my primary knowledge repository. ref. https://www.b...

This guide covers installing PairDrop in an LXC container using the community-built Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts. These scripts make deploying apps like PairDrop fast, standardized, and repeatable. 🧰 Step-by-Step Instructions To create a new Proxmox VE PairDr...

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with a web UI and apps. This guide shows how to deploy it in an LXC container using the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts. 🧰 Step-by-Step Instructions To create a new Proxmox VE Audiobookshelf LXC, run the...

This guide explains how to install Snipe-IT, a self-hosted IT asset management system, on Ubuntu 24.04 using Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 8.3. Ref. https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/installation 📦 1. Update the System sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 🌐 2. I...

Paperless-ngx is a document management system for indexing, OCRing, and organizing scanned documents and PDFs. This guide walks you through setting it up on Debian 12 using the official installation script via Docker Compose. Paperless provides an interactive...

Step-by-Step Instructions This guide walks you through creating a Hyper-V Internal Virtual Switch with NAT support for use in labs or test environments — useful for setting up isolated virtual networks. 🔧 1. Open PowerShell as Administrator All commands bel...

Steps after Virtual Machine Installation: Rename all virtual machines Configure each server: Open Server Manager > Local Server Disable IPv6 Rename the server Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration Disable Windows Update:...

Install AD DS and DNS: Go to Server Manager > Manage > Add Roles and Features Add "Active Directory Domain Services" and "DNS Server" Promote the server to a Domain Controller: Choose "Add a new forest", name it (e.g., lab.com) Opt...

On the Domain Controller: Open Group Policy Management Create new GPO: SCCM Firewall Policy Edit the GPO: Allow RDP: Computer Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > RD Session Host > Connec...

Click Set up a Configuration Manager lab for detailed setup instructions and access to all necessary download links for the lab. Extend the AD Schema run: extadsch.exe Check C:\extadsch.log for success Create System Management Container...

Click Set up a Configuration Manager lab for detailed setup instructions and access to all necessary download links for the lab. Install Required Features: IIS, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.7, BITS, RDC, WSUS, Windows Auth, ASP.NET 3.5, IIS 6 WMI Compatibility, IIS ...

Click Set up a Configuration Manager lab for detailed setup instructions and access to all necessary download links for the lab. Install: Windows ADK: Deployment Tools, USMT only WinPE Addon SCCM Admin Center To download and install Config...

Click Set up a Configuration Manager lab for detailed setup instructions and access to all necessary download links for the lab. A. Discover Resources: Enable all AD Discovery Methods (Forest, Group, System, User) Disable Network Discovery (not need...