Azure provides a start/stop VM solution that allows you to stop/start VMs on a schedule; it consists of multiple PowerShell runbooks. This solution offers three options when deployed:- Schedule VMs to start and stopSchedule VMs to start and stop in…
Category: automation
Copy Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots to another region and create Managed disks using PowerShell
In my previous blog, I detailed how to create Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots of all disks and restore in Azure using PowerShell, this is a follow-on blog detailing how you can copy the Virtual Machine disk snapshots to another region,…
Azure Hub-Spoke Network Configuration with Azure Firewall DNAT using PowerShell
I am going to show you how to create a Hub-Spoke network configuration with Azure Firewall using PowerShell. What is a Hub-Spoke network? Think of the Hub-Spoke as two different networks, network1 is hub, network2 is spoke. Network1 acts as…
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Azure Data Transfer Solution Suggestions for Storage Accounts
Want to transfer data to Azure Storage Accounts and unsure what method to use? Lets have a look at Azure Data Transfer suggestions to assist you in choosing the solution recommended for you A pretty cool feature within Storage Accounts,…
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Azure Storage Lifecycle Management
Using Azure Blob storage & storing data? Throughout the life time of data, its requirement for access can vary and sometimes may rarely be required again after a few days or the data expires after a month once its been…
Creating Azure Activity Log Alerts with PowerShell
Want to create alerts from the Azure Activity Log? I will be showing how to do this with the PowerShell cmdlet Set-AzActivityLogAlert using conditions taken from a json output of the Activity Log. For the example I will be looking…
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Creating automated reports using Logic Apps for Log Analytics queries
From time to time, you may want an automated report to be emailed which displays a specific Log Analytics query, in this blog I will detail how this can be done via using a Logic App. What are Logic Apps?…
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Azure Datacenter IP ranges from PowerShell to XML
Azure recently released an update to inform that the Weekly publication of Azure datacenter IP ranges (also known as XML files) for Azure Public, China, and Germany will be deprecated by June 30, 2020. Below is the update that was sent out:- Instead, you can…
Enabling Alerting for Azure Recovery Services Vault
Azure Recovery Services Vault is a backup resource within Azure, primarily used for Virtual Machine backups and Azure Site Recovery. Both of which are critical to the successful running of an environment in Azure, whether it be backing up the…
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Creating Azure Service Health Alerts in PowerShell
Azure Service Health provides you with an interactive dashboard that primarily tracks the health of your Azure Services in the regions that you have deployed to. There are three types of health events that are tracked: Health Advisories:- Changes in…
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Thomas Thornton 