I am the proud father of two little gems. A beer & wine enthusiasm. For everything else, I work and play with Azure at day, and I am an Azure MVP & Advisor at night.
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I was recently asked how to give access to an existing KeyVault to a managed identity that already have access policies configured. It's not a secret but not all know about this little trick that will enable you to incrementally process permissions to KeyVault over time using ARM
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Before COVID-19 started to force a global shutdown everywhere, we were already thinking about this event. The long term goal? Help cloud engineers being more successful with Microsoft Azure. ShareGate Deploy is a free event, one of the several to come onto this journey! A full day focused on Microsoft
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I had the pleasure to co-host a webinar with Jussi Roine around Azure Policy and governance in Azure at the end of March 2020 for ShareGate. It was a good event and we had a lot of registrations but if you missed it, or would like a chance to listen
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I have been using managed identity (aka Managed Service Identity - MSI) in Azure for several years now. It's a best practice and a very convenient way to assign an identity (Service Principal) to an Azure resource. A new way to reference managed identities in ARM templates has
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Staying on top of your consumption brings great benefits as it is an important aspect of a healthy governance plan. Learn how to determine if you misuse your resources and how cost monitoring helps detect bugs and defects early, preventing cost bleeding.
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We've been on a mission lately at work to find expiring credentials and certificates in our Azure environments. One of the resources we had on our radar is Azure Application Gateway. Here's what I did to solve this problem and to enable us to be more
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I love Azure Resource Graph but one of the things I deeply wanted since its launch is a native way to get the subscription or tenant names, not just the id. Good news! It's now possible if you use Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. Prerequisites The following article
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We had to do automation around Office 365 mailboxes a couple of days ago and struggled to do it. We looked around and found the solution in a sea of non working articles. Let this save you time if you want to do this yourself. Why running in Azure Automation
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I wrote a few PowerShell functions a couple of years ago to build a bearer token out of an active session. I needed to make calls in scripts here and there and nothing native was available. This is now things of the past if you are open to use Azure
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If you didn't know it yet, I am a big fan of Azure Resource Graph. It gives me the ability to quickly answer business inquiries / people showing at my desk with questions regarding Azure resources. I got one last week: "What is all the Key Vault where
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I wrote not long ago about Azure Resource Graph and how it would change the way you script. It now enables us to track changes over time. Ever wanted to know what was the state of a resource 1 week before the laschange. It is now possible. Before the Change
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Azure Resource Graph has been announced a while ago (Ignite 2018) and I immediately understood this would be a game changer in terms of querying and data digging for the Azure resources I need to manage. What is Azure Resource Graph From the Microsoft documentation: Azure Resource Graph is a