API Management – Disable Trusted Connectivity by March 2026

If you are using Azure API Management service, you may get notified or see an Azure advisor recommendation regarding – Disable trusted service connectivity in API Management.  While reviewing Azure Advisor recommendations across multiple subscriptions, I noticed something interesting: only a subset of our API Management (APIM) services appeared in the advisor alerts. This prompted … Read more

azure application gateway data for certificate is invalid error fix

A quick blog post to show a fix for when you get the error data for certificate is invalid error when applying backend settings within Azure Application Gateway. Within the Azure Activity log, you may come across this error: Reviewing the backend settings in the Application Gateway, we can see the snippet: For end-to-end SSL … Read more

Power BI Gateway error when connecting to PostgreSQL fix

A very quick blog post to detail a quick fix I found when attempting to create a Power BI on-premise Gateway connectivity to PostgreSQL. Setting up on-premise gateway and applying fix Setting up a standard on-premise gateway for data integration, following this guide from docs.microsoft Setup installs fine – when attempting to setup a new … Read more

Connect to nested Hyper-V VMs in Azure from another Virtual Network using VPN Gateway

Nested Hyper-V VMs in Azure has been available for a while now, its great for alot of different scenarios such as unsupported operating systems that run legacy applications to sandbox environments. After creation of these VMs in a nested Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) you will possibly want to connect these VMs to other VMs in … Read more

Azure DevOps Pipelines – Keeping your pipelines DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)

Working on Azure DevOps Pipelines you may notice some repetition over time, whether that be copying the same stage or task multiple times but changing some values. This will result in your pipeline growing and growing unnecessary over time. What can we do? If you are coming from a developer perspective you will probably have … Read more

Azure AKS aad-pod-identity Status code ‘404’ fix

A quick blog post to show the fix I implemented in relation to receiving this error:- With the initial error of error: there wasn’t much further logging available. Here is the full output of log found under mic-* pod as part of aad-pod-identity The fix for this, is to add and deploy this .yaml found … Read more

“the input device is not a TTY” fix when running Docker in Azure DevOps

Attempting to run Docker in Azure DevOps and getting error “the input device is not a TTY”? In in this blog post, I will show you a simple fix used to resolve the issue I was having. When attempting to use Docker inside a Bash@3 task; I kept getting the error:- The Docker command I … Read more

Issue while replicating an On-premise Hyper-V guest to Azure error code 8079002c

A quick blog post on a fix I found to resolve a replication issue between Hyper-V guest and Azure Migrate with error code 8079002c

Using Azure Migrate and attempting to replicate an On-Premise Hyper-V guest (Server 2012R2) to azure, error code 8079002c kept appearing and the initial replication kept failing.

Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell

A blog post to show how you can assign a Network Security Group (NSG) to a Virtual Machine Network Interface (NIC) in Azure using PowerShell. Firstly, get the Network Security Group you want to have assigned to the Virtual Machine NIC Get the Virtual Machine NIC that you want to assign the NSG to You … Read more

Hyper-V prevented starting virtual machine because it is prepared for failover fix

Using Azure Migrate to migrate Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V host to Azure, you may want to start a Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) after they have been migrated for various reasons including:- VM not accessible in Azure Azure Migration issue and want to restore back to an earlier version of the VM again on Hyper-V … Read more