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Azure Policy is a powerful tool that allows you to enforce compliance and governance rules for your Azure resources. One way to use Azure Policy is to restrict the VM sizes deployed in your environment. This is particularly useful for controlling costs, as larger VM sizes can be more expensive. To restrict VM sizes with Azure Policy, you can create a […]
Read moreA common challenge that integrators run into is managing secrets and subsequently, managing access to secrets. Azure Key Vault is a service that developers can use to store their secrets, keys and other sensitive data. However, there is still a challenge with accessing these secrets. If you are storing the credentials to access Key Vault in a non-secure manner, you […]
Read moreIn most organizations there are several devices or applications that need to use an SMTP service to send email messages. An Exchange 2016 server can provide that service for you, however the configuration required on the server depends on the SMTP relay requirements of your scenario. The steps for how to configure Exchange Server 2016 SMTP relay are: Determining Internal vs External […]
Read moreCloning an Azure virtual machine is something I thought it was directly integrated (as in, one click/command and that’s it, but no, it involves several steps. However, it is not complicated, and in this post I will explain how to do it! Step 1. Go to Azure portal, navigate to the virtual machine you want to clone. In the Disks section, click on its operating system disk. […]
Read moreConverting PFX File to .Pem file using OpenSSL in Windows 10 . Windows 10 – Version 1607 or Above – Some Application never allow .pfx file to import directly. Running Ubuntu Bash shell become much simpler in Windows 10 In Windows 10 you can have a linux subsystem . It’s a great feature for sys admins for these sort of […]
Read moreTo Get all Scopes – Open PowerShell – Run as Administrator Get-DhcpServerv4Scope To Check DNS Servers Option 006 Get-DhcpServerv4Scope| Get-DhcpServerv4OptionValue| Where-Object{$_.OptionID -like6} | FT Value To Check – Whatif Get-DhcpServerv4Scope| Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue-DnsServer172.21.10.20,172.21.10.21,10.10.11.10,10.10.11.11 –Whatif To Apply Get-DhcpServerv4Scope| Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue-DnsServer172.21.10.20,172.21.10.21,10.10.11.10,10.10.11.11 To Check if its Applied or Not Get-DhcpServerv4Scope| Get-DhcpServerv4OptionValue| Where-Object{$_.OptionID -like6} | FT Value You can see 006 DNS Servers Updated for all scopes
Read moreUnlike a traditional hub and spoke when you have site to site VPN with azure with multiple virtual networks. Azure Express route gives you an additional option to create up-to to 10 connections directly with the express route circuit. Where the virtual network can be from different subscriptions. It makes life much easier when you have multiple business units within […]
Read moreWhat 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 […]
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