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Previously I blogged "Using PowerShell to automatically Tweet a random Blog Post from Table Storage" which resulted in a couple of Azure PowerShell Functions, this is a complex setup and possibly not required if all you are looking to do…
Read More Tweeting a random blog post from Rss feed using PowerShell Azure Function
Azure Monitor, an all in one comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing and acting on your cloud and/or on-premises environment. Along with this, we use both Log Analytics & Application Insights for collecting and analyzing telemetry data that allows us to…
Read More Azure Monitor – Taking the Logging and alerting deployment from ARM To PowerShell
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…
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…
Read More Enabling Alerting for Azure Recovery Services Vault
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…
Read More Creating Azure Service Health Alerts in PowerShell
Previously I had blogged about creating a PowerShell functions using v1 of Azure Functions but in recent updates; PowerShell Core 6 (Preview) is now supported in v2. Want to run small snippets of code in the cloud? Without the need…
Read More Azure Functions:- Creating a PowerShell Function v2 using Azure CLI
Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) within your Azure environment? I recommend looking at using Azure Automation to assist you with this! The Azure Automation account which will hold DSC configurations and compiled configs along with imported modules acts as…
Need to apply a list of App Settings to your Azure Function? Application Settings can be used to store numerous values within your Azure Function, can also be used to store potential passwords. Application Settings are encrypted at rest and…
Read More Azure Functions:- PowerShell Hashtable to apply App Settings using AzureCLI
Want to run small snippets of code in the cloud? Without the need to deploy adequate infrastructure to do so? With Azure Functions, this can be achieved! All you need is to write the code and let Azure worry about…
Read More Azure Functions:- Creating a PowerShell Function v1 using Azure CLI
Rather happy with this preview feature announcement - currently in preview Geo-redundant storage (GRS) or Read Access-GRS accounts now have the option to manually fail over rather than wait on Azure to initiate the fail-over into the secondary region. This…
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