Blogging all things Microsoft Azure
From time to time, creating alerts using data in Log Analytics may have an additional requirement only to be alerted on specified time frames, usually within business hours or outside of core hours, examples of this may include:- RDP Login in office hours CPU Spike outside office hours Part of the Log Analytics query will…
Deploying your Production IaaS VMs within Azure you will be wanting to consider redundancy and ensuring your environment is highly available in both the Application itself along with the infrastructure it will be using within Azure. Looking at this from a high-level, you will be deploying each part of the application that you want to…
Centralise your queried data graphs/charts etc with Azure Dashboards – such a powerful resource within Microsoft Azure! A fully customisable user interface within a dashboard type environment, this should be configured for a “first-stop” for your team(s) to keep an eye on:- metrics, graphs and data within these dashboards. Why Azure Dashboards? Simple to create…
Using Azure Key Vault to store your secrets , encryption keys or even certificate data? Have a read of this blog, I will be discussing 5 ways on how to secure your Key Vault from network restriction to key rotation. As mentioned by Microsoft, access to a key vault is controlled via two types of…
I have now got 30+ Blog posts, all of which I would want to share via Twitter on a repetitive basis, say for example 3 times a week. Yes, I could use TweetDeck or potentially another third-party tool but this is manual configuration as to what Tweet to send and when, I just want to…
I recently attend the Microsoft Ignite UK Tour, which was a two day event in the London Excel arena. An event focused on Microsoft’s Azure and Office 365 offerings, consisting of 100+ deep-dive sessions and workshops along with 350+ experts! Sessions attended: Deploying your application faster and safer Protecting Apps and data on Azure Selecting…
A quick PowerShell Function to retrieve blog post data from my blog site – added to Github as may be useful for others! Run this function easily by: Get-Blogs -BlogSiteName “thomasthornton.cloud” Output: If you require further Output data from the used api, you can run $WPBlogRetrieve = Invoke-RestMethod -uri “https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/$BlogSiteName/posts/?number=100” $WPBlogRetrieve.posts Further info on WordPress.com…
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 is great news, not all “Disaster Recovery” scenarios now require Azure to initiate the fail-over,…
Azure Resource Tags can assist you in organising your Azure subscription, including billing! Running all your workloads from Development to Production on the one subscription? Resource tags will be beneficial to organise the structure between these different environments! Further uses of Resource Tags may be to group resources per department or team? As mentioned above,…
What is RBAC in Azure? Role Based Access Control, whenever you can see a resource within Azure Portal you have the correct RBAC role to be able to view the resource or even edit it. Three basic types of RBAC roles: Owner: Full access to all resources including the ability to delegate access to other…