A 15-minute, license-free Windows 11 hardening checklist for SMB endpoints — TPM/Secure Boot, BitLocker, standard-user accounts, Defender + ASR rules, firewall, telemetry trim, and Recall opt-out.
Category: Guides
Why Your SMB Needs Windows 11 Pro, Not Home: The $99 Upgrade That Saves $4,000 in Incidents
Windows 11 Home is the wrong product to run a business on. Real BitLocker, Group Policy, Entra/AD join, RDP host, Hyper-V, MDM, and Update for Business are all Pro-only — and the upgrade is $99 with no reinstall.
Lock Down SSH in 10 Minutes: A Hardening Checklist for Linux
Key-only auth, no root, a non-default port, fail2ban, and a workflow that won’t lock you out — every box I run gets this same six-line hardening file.
Make Your Servers Smile: Dynamic MOTDs with Figlet, Cowsay, Fortune, and Lolcat
A tour of /etc/update-motd.d/, the four tiny packages that build a great login banner (figlet, cowsay, fortune, lolcat), and how to drop a unicorn into your SSH greeting in under ten minutes.
Claude Code + the Karpathy Guidelines: A Saner AI Coding Workflow
How I install Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI plus the Superpowers and Karpathy-guidelines plugins from the marketplace — and why this combination turns an LLM from helpful-looking autocomplete into a junior engineer who has read the handbook.
Introducing the Rainier IT Client Knowledge Base
Introducing our new customer knowledge base—self-service guides, troubleshooting, and best practices available 24/7 at kb.rainier-it.com.
Onboarding Day, Reinvented: How a New Client Gets Fully Protected Before Lunch
When you sign with Rainier IT, every device you own is provisioned, monitored, and backed up the same day — not three weeks later. Here’s exactly what runs, and why it matters for security.
💻 Smooth Transition: How to Safely Migrate Your Windows 10 Profile to Windows 11
The shift to Windows 11 brings exciting performance and security upgrades your Pierce County business needs to stay competitive. However, for every business owner in […]
Creating Percival, our AI Staff Writer
So we are hiring a new staff writer named Percival, and when I say we have to train this guy, I mean we really have […]