Microsoft Azure
It is not a secret anymore that I really like Azure Resource Graph. Today I wanted to list all the subscriptions under a management group and had to adjust because I was leveraging hidden tags before on subscriptions. This data is now gone in ARG, let see how I now
Microsoft Azure
In Azure, 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 of these resources but how can you achieve this and what are the pros and cons of each? This is an actualized
PowerShell
Over the years I posted a few scripts that have been useful for me in Azure on ScriptCenter. Time has come to move them on a newer platform since ScriptCenter is now obsolete and is retiring. Bye Bye ScriptCenter ScriptCenter will continue to operate in read-only mode, no new contributions
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
Microsoft Azure
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
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