I’m a UK-based school ICT Network Manager documenting real-world infrastructure work, troubleshooting, and lessons learned from working in a small internal IT environment.

This blog is a place for practical notes rather than polished vendor-style guides. I write about projects I have worked through, problems I have had to solve, and the things I wish had been documented when I first inherited the environment.

Topics include Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Windows deployment, school ICT operations, documentation, legacy system cleanup, and the process of moving from older ways of working to more manageable modern infrastructure.

A lot of the content comes from the perspective of a small IT team where time, budget, documentation, and supportability matter just as much as the technical solution itself. The aim is to share useful, realistic write-ups that other school IT staff, lone technicians, junior admins, and small-site sysadmins might find helpful.

The posts here are based on personal experience and anonymised environments. They are not official guidance from my employer, vendors, or any organisation I have worked with. Where details have been changed or simplified, it is to protect privacy, security, and confidentiality.

The goal is simple: document the work, share what I learned, and hopefully save someone else a bit of time.