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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
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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