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NTLM and Kerberos Explained with Diagrams — Why Authentication Falls Back to NTLM (archived 2026-08-30)

An illustrated comparison of NTLM and Kerberos: challenge/response, TGTs and service tickets, the conditions under which Negotiate falls back to NTLM when an SPN cannot be resolved, why relay attacks and Pass-the-Hash work, and the removal of NTLMv1 — all backed by the official d...

Choosing Between Power Automate and PowerShell + Task Scheduler — Putting Each Automation Tool Where It Fits Instead of Mixing Them (archived 2026-08-30)

For IT staff at small and mid-sized companies where PowerShell + Task Scheduler nightly batches and Power Automate flows have started to coexist, this article sets out where each tool is strong, a decision table for choosing between them, a loosely coupled integration pattern via...

Parallel Processing in PowerShell — Choosing Between ForEach-Object -Parallel and Jobs (archived 2026-08-30)

A practical rundown of the differences between ForEach-Object -Parallel, Start-ThreadJob and Start-Job and when to use each, $using: and thread safety, how to decide ThrottleLimit, and the cases where parallelism actually makes things slower. Archived version of https://comcompon...

Replacing an Excel Ledger with a SharePoint List — Sharing, History, and Flow Integration to Put an End to the Broken Ledger (archived 2026-08-30)

A practical guide to migrating an Excel ledger on a shared folder to a SharePoint list (Microsoft Lists). Covers solving concurrent editing, overwrites and row misalignment, the import procedure from Excel, column type design, a correct understanding of the 5,000 list view thresh...

Why a Technical Company's Website Fails to Communicate What the Company Does (archived 2026-08-27)

We examine why technical and B2B websites fail to convey what the company actually does, looking at the division of roles between the top page, service pages, and company information. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/2026/03/25/000-website-development-why-uncl...

Incident Response Doesn't End at Recovery — A Postmortem (Recurrence Prevention) Template for Small Development Teams (archived 2026-08-27)

Treating an incident as over once it's fixed and apologized for guarantees you'll repeat it. This article translates the blameless postmortem for small teams, covering a template you can write in an hour, a strength decision table for recurrence-prevention measures, and how to tr...

SEO and Google Ads for a Technical B2B Site - How to Run Both (archived 2026-08-27)

How to divide the roles of SEO and Google Ads and turn a technical B2B site into inquiries. We cover page design, measurement, and operations basics, grounded in Google's official guidance. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/2026/03/24/000-seo-google-ads-best-pr...

An Introduction to ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) — The Minimal Way to Record 'Why We Designed It This Way' on a Small Team (archived 2026-08-27)

Code never explains why it was written that way. We cover how to use an ADR (Architecture Decision Record) — one decision, one Markdown file — to preserve the reasoning behind a design choice, complete with a template, a decision table for what to write up and what not to, and wo...

How Should You Structure a Custom Software Development or Operations & Maintenance Contract? — Learning the Quasi-Mandate vs. Contract-for-Work Distinction from IPA's 'Model Contract' (archived 2026-08-27)

When you outsource system development, how should the contract be structured? Drawing on the 'Information System Model Transaction and Contract' published by IPA, this article explains, in terms accessible to the client side too, the thinking behind multi-stage contracts, the dif...

Should Custom Software Development Specs Stay in Excel? — Choosing the Right Format for Deliverables (archived 2026-08-27)

Should the specification and design documents delivered in custom software development stay in Excel 'graph paper' format? This article works through the problems with Excel-based specs from an acceptance-testing and maintenance standpoint, and explains how to choose a format tha...