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What secpol.msc controls, which password, lockout, audit and NTLM settings to set with their Microsoft baseline values, how domain and Intune policy override it, and how to enable LSA protection and Credential Guard without breaking smart card sign-in.

What defragmentation is, why it sped up hard disks and does nothing for SSDs, what Windows Optimize Drives runs on each kind of drive and inside a VM, and the fleet rule that keeps it off the ticket queue.

What the OAuth device code flow is for, how Storm-2372 and EvilTokens turn it into phishing that MFA cannot stop, and the Entra Conditional Access rollout that blocks it without signing out your Teams Rooms.

Six Windows controls share the blocked-app dialog. How to read the wording, find the event or policy behind it, apply the right fix for UAC, AppLocker, WDAC, Smart App Control and Defender ASR, and when to leave the block in place.