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
Microsoft Azure
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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Microsoft Azure
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[]'
PowerShell
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 object of the Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey command you are impacted. This is because the object that was coming out of Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey was
Microsoft Azure
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 documentation we've found talked about calling the Azure CDN REST API, meaning acquiring a bearer token and all.
PowerShell
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 Microsoft.Powershell.DSC VM extension for our Windows virtual machines in our ARM template. We were using version 2.8
PowerShell
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 REST API, meaning acquiring a bearer token and all, but if I have the choice, I prefer to stay away
Microsoft Azure
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 certificates safe is a challenge in itself. In this particular article we'll see how to refer and inject
Microsoft 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 of these resources but how can you achieve this and what are the pros and cons of each? You have
PowerShell
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) installation have been fixed and it is now available for download. The fit of the overall shirt should provide a
Microsoft Azure
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 certificates safe is a challenge in itself. In this particular article we'll see how to create an Azure
PowerShell
Getting the status of a virtual machine is really handy because once you have that information you can then take decisions and perform several actions on your virtual machines like starting it, stopping it, etc. List all virtual machines in a subscription To list all the virtual machines in a