Thomas Thornton – Microsoft Azure MVP – GitHub Star – HashiCorp Ambassador
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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…
Read More Connect to nested Hyper-V VMs in Azure from another Virtual Network using VPN Gateway
Looking to query Azure SQL SQL Database using Service Principal with PowerShell? Have a look at this blog post! Recently I had been asked to configure a script that can be used to query an Azure SQL Database table data…
Read More Query Azure SQL Database using Service Principal with 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…
Read More Assign Network Security Group to Virtual Machine Network Interface using PowerShell
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…
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,…
Using Virtual Machines in Azure from time-to-time you may want to have a copy of the current point-in-time of your Virtual Machine, rather than taking a full backup of this using Recovery Services, can you create a snapshot of the…
Read More Azure Managed Disk snapshot and restore 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…
Read More Azure Hub-Spoke Network Configuration with Azure Firewall DNAT using PowerShell
You may have a requirement from time-to-time to provide a copy of the current Network Security Group(s) rulset within your Azure subscription, in this blog I will show you how this can be be done via PowerShell Lets have a…
What are Application Security Groups? (ASGs) ASGs are used within a NSG to apply a network security rule to a specific workload or group of VMs – defined by ASG worked as being the “network object” & expilicit IP addresses…
Read More Application Security Group assignment using PowerShell
From time to time, a Point-to-Site VPN (P2S) is required to access your Azure Virtual Network securely from a range of computers. This VPN setup is configured using an Azure Gateway within your Virtual Network. In this blog, I will…
Read More Azure Point to Site VPN configuration using PowerShell
Thomas Thornton - Microsoft Azure MVP - GitHub Star - HashiCorp Ambassador 