Microsoft Azure How to audit an Azure subscription Role Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments 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
Microsoft Azure How to safely replace Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceType calls in Azure PowerShell 6.x+ 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
Microsoft Azure Prepare data disks for stability & consistency in Azure throughout virtual machines and scale sets lifecycle 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
Microsoft Azure Gain better control over your Microsoft Azure costs and governance using Overcast 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,
Azure Resource Manager Migrate your classic storage account to Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell Azure v5.0.x 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
Azure Resource Manager List all App Service web apps outbound IP addresses used in a subscription 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
Microsoft Azure MSDEVMTL - Azure : Let’s talk Hybrid Cloud with Clemens Vasters 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
Microsoft Azure How to easily and silently obtain AccessToken (Bearer) from an existing Azure PowerShell session 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
Microsoft Azure Azure automation runbook invocation error when declaring array, Unable to cast object of type... to System.Object[] 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
Microsoft Azure How to easily deploy Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (BYOL) virtual machines from marketplace images and Azure Resource Manager Template 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&
Azure Key Vault Creating Azure Key Vault with logging using Azure Resource Manager ARM templates If you are looking to create an Azure Key Vault, have full visibility/traceability over who access it and what they did while preventing accidental deletes of your vault, you
Microsoft Azure Free Training! Azure Day is coming to Montreal January 17th 2017 Microsoft will hold a free full day of training around data and DevOps. Register soon as seats are limited! There is two tracks in the day: Data Cortana Intelligence – Internet
Microsoft Azure How to enable the public preview of IaaS backups with Recovery Services in Canada using PowerShell We have a lot of customers that want to use Canadian regions on Azure. Azure Recovery Services in Canada is not available in the portal as the moment of writing
Azure Resource Manager Error when deploying App Service Plan using template, 'Required property 'name' not found in JSON. Path ''.' Just a quick article to save you the time it took me to realize what exactly was the problem in my template because the error message was not of much
PowerShell Breaking change with Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey in AzureRM.Storage v1.1.0 - AzureRM v1.4.0 A nasty breaking change has slipped into version 1.1.0 of AzureRM.Storage which coincide with the release v1.4.0 of AzureRM module. If you use the return
Microsoft Azure HowTo: Purge an Azure CDN endpoint using Azure PowerShell v1.x Not long ago, one of my colleagues asked me how he could automate the purge of an Azure CDN endpoint. I browsed around a bit with him and the only
PowerShell Azure DSC Extension error - A previous attempt to install Win8.1AndW2K12R2-KB3066437-x64.msu failed Sometimes you make stupid mistakes that cost you a lot of time and today was a day like this. The context We wanted to use a fixed version of the
PowerShell HowTo: Perform POST call to Azure REST API using Invoke-AzureRmResourceAction PowerShell command Not long ago, one of my colleagues asked me how we could automate an action that was not quite available in the Azure PowerShell cmdlets. Sure we can use Azure
Community Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 - Montreal (Samedi 16 avril 2016) Cette année encore, on remet ça pour le Global Azure BootCamp à Montréal et toute la journée sera consacré à Service Fabric! Quand et où? Samedi 16 Avril 2016 9:
Microsoft Azure How to refer an Azure Key Vault secret in an Azure Resource Manager deployment template We live in a world where data and security is not to be taken lightly. Having to create or maintain a system that enable you to keep secrets and/or
Microsoft Azure Effective ways to delete resources in a resource group on Azure Under Azure Resource Manager, resource groups are very helpful to logically hold together a set of resources. For many reasons, at some point, you'll want to get rid
PowerShell WMF 5.0 (PowerShell 5.0) RTM is back and available! After being temporarily removed in December 2015 due to a nasty bug that could resets your PowerShell module environment during installation, the Windows Management Framework 5.0 (PowerShell 5.0)
Azure Resource Manager I am presenting: Deployment with Azure Resource Management templates and GIT on March 3rd 2016 I am glad to present a session on March 3rd 2016 for MITPro (Montreal IT Professional Community) at the Delta Hotel in Montreal. Here is the detail of my session
Community I am giving two Azure sessions at DevTeach Montreal DevCon 2016 It's with great pleasure that I will present 2 sessions at DevTeach Montreal this year (2016) DevTeach Montreal DevCon July 4-8, 2016 http://www.devteach.com/ I will speak about ARM and automation on Azure (No surprises here!) Here is the detail
Microsoft Azure Create an Azure Key Vault using an ARM template (api version 2015-06-01) and Azure PowerShell v1.0.4 We live in a world where data and security is not to be taken lightly. Having to create or maintain a system that enable you to keep secrets and/or
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