Notes from the architect's seat

I'm Lee — an enterprise architect who spent the last decade at Microsoft helping big companies move big workloads, and who relaxes by running a seven-node hybrid lab that's increasingly managed by AI agents. Cloud migration, AI infrastructure, the home lab and garage — all of it ends up here.

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08/09/26	Garage	The factory tow hitch Tesla says doesn't exist NEW! A three-year quest through Tesla's parts catalog: TW01 harnesses, unicorn cars, a relabeled part after a six-month wait, and the hybrid jumper harness I'm bu...
08/09/26	Garage	Sixteen years of asking cars to do things they weren't ordered with NEW! From a junkyard F250 nav unit in a 2010 Escape, to a factory tow package on a Lincoln MKT, to Tesla gateway configs — one instinct, three generations of vehi...
08/08/26		Hello, world (again) NEW! What this site is, why it exists, and what you can expect to find here.
08/08/26	AI-Assisted Engineering	I audited my backlog with 13 AI agents (and deleted a quarter of it) NEW! What happened when I pointed a small raid group of AI agents at 200+ backlog items and told them to verify every claim against the actual code.
08/08/26	Cloud Migration & Hybrid	The VMware bill came due. Now what? NEW! The honest decision tree I walk enterprises through when the virtualization renewal lands and the number has changed.
08/08/26	The Architect's Seat	The architect's seat NEW! What a field architect actually does, how I got here from a network closet, and what happens when the org chart gets deleted out from under you.
08/01/26	The Architect's Seat	The job search runs on agents so I don't have to NEW! How I built an agentic harness around my job search — the resume pipeline, the fact-checked record, the voice profile — so the human hours go to networking, ...
06/15/26	Workbench	Agentic management of a personal home lab running Windows Server, Azure Linux, and Azure Local The full setup guide: an isolated lab, VS Code Remote Tunnels, GitHub Copilot in agent mode, and the skill-building that turns an AI into a competent junior ...
03/07/25	GBB Core (Archive)	VMware Migration Quest with Microsoft Part 2: Charting a new way In Part 1 of this series, we discussed many of the motivators, needs, and planning for a VMware migration to Microsoft solutions. ...
02/28/25	GBB Core (Archive)	VMware Migration Quest with Microsoft Part 1: The fastest path to victory Your leaders are asking you to perform a miracle, but to do it you’ll have to embark on an ambitious quest. We know, you’...
04/01/24	GBB Core (Archive)	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 4: Turn it up! Lee Cox – Advanced Migration GBB Welcome back to Part 4 of our Blog series. Thanks for taking the time to follow along. So? How did it go? Did you get throug...
03/29/24	GBB Core (Archive)	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 3: The Deployment Lee Cox – Advanced Migration GBB Welcome to Part 3 of this series of Rolling your own Azure Stack HCI environment! Congrats and thanks for sticking with me. ...

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