Goodbye, Microsoft

After years of paying a yearly subscription to keep my files in someone else’s cloud, I finally did it. Every personal document, every photo, every contact and calendar entry now lives on hardware I own, in my own home, under my own administration. No more OneDrive. No more renting space on machines I never see, run by a company that ultimately holds the keys to it.

This is the story of how I replaced Microsoft 365 with a self-hosted stack built on Docker, and the technical problems I had to solve along the way. My setup is far from perfect, and I know it well. But it works, it is mine, and that is the whole point.