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March 2025 Archive

Building a CM Lab in 2025: Configuring The CM Siteserver

Screen snip of the Sites node of the Configuration Manager Console Administration interface.

March 10, 2025
9 minutes
inspiration, powershell, security, tech

In the first post of this short series, I wrote about using the Deployment Research Hydration Kit to build out the basic infrastructure behind a CM lab.

Screen snip of two available and offline Hyper-V VMs, DC01 and CM01, in Hyper-V Manager.

March 03, 2025
9 minutes
automation, inspiration, mistakes, powershell, security, tech

I've been a proponent of a dev/test CM (or just client device) lab environment for a long time. Though folks in increasing number seem to feel like maintaining a Configuration Manager lab is irrelevant, there are still several benefits to maintaining such a space, especially if you're in the journey to cloud-forward management or need to stay in a CM ecosystem for valid business reasons.