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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How bad the feeling is when someone comes rush onto your desk because something in production stopped working overnight. This can happen if you don't take seriously the rollover of credentials for your Azure AD application. Be the hero here, be proactive instead of reactive! Context There is
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1. PLAN YOUR SESSIONS Explore the ESPC18 SCHEDULE to identify what sessions you’d like to attend. Create your own schedule suited to you. If you are travelling with colleagues, divide and conquer by attending different sessions. Afterwards swap notes to increase your learning. Don’t have time to delve
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In the last year it occurred several times that I needed to audit and validate Role Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments for an Azure subscription. Using what is available in the portal doesn't help much. You can view assignments in the portal but it is not exportable, neither
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UPDATE: 2018-06-28 - Added resourcegroup ODataFilter example. Starting with version 6.0 of Azure PowerShell, Find-AzureRmResource have been removed and Get-AzureRmResource is supposed to be the workaround. My first reflex was to just convert Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceType to Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceType but I was unlucky and hit a regression and an error
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When dealing with Windows virtual machines from the marketplace on Azure, sometimes a CD-ROM will temporarily be present in the first moments in the lifetime of a virtual machine or virtual machine scale set instances. Microsoft needs this drive to perform various actions like preparing and licensing the VM. If
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True is to say that it's a hard job to stay on top and remain in control of cloud computing spending. There is a tool I recently used, it didn't only provide us with awesome visibility over our Azure spending but also recommendations to trim/eliminate
Azure Resource Manager
I've been working to convert a lot of classic resources on Azure lately, a lot of fun I assure you! Many of the scenarios I faced implied virtual machines & virtual networks but here I will present a simple case I did recently, migration of a simple Classic
Azure Resource Manager
If you want to perform IP whitelisting against an App Service, you'll discover that on public instances of App Service (not App Service Environment) you have 4 or more outbound IP addresses. I was in a situation where I needed to get all outbound IP addresses over multiple
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The summer is mostly here, and that usually mean a break for the community group, but the MSDEVMTL Azure Group still have one more surprise for you. When: Friday morning on June 9th 2017 Speaker: Clemens Vasters Clemens is Microsoft's "Principal Messenger", driving global technical strategy
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More than often I need to call the Azure RM REST API to perform a variety of thing. Pretty much the only way you'll find to do it on the Internet in PowerShell is to authenticate a second time against the REST API to obtain a bearer token.
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Today I was implementing a snapshot/restore mechanism for virtual machines with the help of Azure Automation. After importing my script in Azure Automation, I encountered an error while invoking it. The message was: Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'System.Object[]'
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Not so long ago it was possible (but painful) to deploy Windows Server virtual machines with the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. I am glad to let you know that it's not a pain anymore! Let me walk you through how to do this in way fewer steps and