A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
What is Packer? Packer is a tool developed by Hashicorp (the company behind Terraform) that makes it easy to automate the creation of custom images (or AMIs in AWS). The tool itself will automate the creation of VMs, will run whatever scripts you want it to run, and will then instruct your cloud provider to take that image. Packer itself is […]
Read moreAzure Policy is a powerful tool in your Azure toolbox. It allows you to enforce specific governance principals you want to see implemented in your environment. Some key examples of what Azure Policy allows you to do is: I recently ran into a customer scenario, where they wanted to block VMs from having a public IP. If at possible, this […]
Read moreUserType is not always accurate for identifying external or member users If you search an Office 365 user with Get-AzureADUser or Get-MsolUser, you get details about the account type with the attribute UserType. The value can be: Member: the user is part of the Azure AD tenant Guest: the user is a guest, for example to access to Microsoft Teams or SharePoint site According […]
Read moreWhat is a Private Endpoint A private endpoint is a network interface that uses a private IP address from your virtual network. This network interface connects you privately and securely to a service using a Private Link. According to Microsoft, using a private endpoint allows the service to enter into your VNET. The Private Endpoint also enables a private and […]
Read moreAPI Reference and Permissions The official documentation is here: Send mail – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs fileAttachment resource type – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs Azure App Registration Rights: Mail.Send The PowerShell Script to send Mail with Attachment using MS GRAPH API That’s the Script on using PowerShell with MS GRAPH API to send a Mail with […]
Read moreAPI Reference and Permissions Read the following DOCS for more Details https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-post-applications?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http Create an Azure App Reg with the following GRAPH API Application Permissions Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy Application.ReadWrite.All All done, then let’s see the Script The Result We get an empty Azure App Registration without a Secret, Cert, or Permissions.
Read moreIn this article, you will learn how to prepare to use the EXO V2 module to run Exchange Online unattended scripts with app-only modern authentication. You’ll learn how to: Register a new app in Azure Active Directory and enable its service principal. Assign API permissions and roles. Generate and upload a self-signed certificate. Use the app and certificate to authenticate and […]
Read moreIn this article, we will talk about the different network services offered by Azure to manage our resources and connect to them from a remote site (On-Promise) or via the Internet. Azure VNet (Virtual Network) VNet is the fundamental block of our virtual private network on Azure. It will allow us to securely communicate our Azure resources (VM..etc) with each […]
Read moreThe standardization and reuse of architectural models is a common practice in software development, which can be inspired in cloud network topologies. The Hub-and-Spoke model is a network topology increasingly adopted by customers on Azure. We will discuss in this article the characteristics of this architecture, the advantages that can be drawn from it and the most common use cases. The Hub-and-Spoke […]
Read moreOne of the main objectives for an organization moving to a public cloud, in any type of shape or form, is regarding the overall performance experience: It cannot be a downgraded version of what they have with their on-premises services. Microsoft is well aware of that, therefore created some time back the possibility to use private connections from your datacenter […]
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