Dear All ! Yesterday Microsoft extended the capabilities in Azure Cloud Shell. The so long very basic version has now built in editing support! Its as easy as going to shell.azure.com in your browser, and after authentication has finished, you see this: Type in „code“ and the editor opens. Independent of using Bash or PowerShell,… Read more shell.azure.com – Code Editing in AzureShell
Dear All! The PS Gallery will receive an update very soon, you can test the preview version already now on https://www.preview.powershellgallery.com/ New features are: Improved download performance provided via CDN Enhanced security for publishers, including support for 2FA, multiple publishing keys Account management support for changing email address or login account Direct download of items… Read more New Version of PowerShell Gallery in Public Preview
Dear all ! On the latest MVP Webcast we have been informed of an addon for Chrome and Firefox, which hides critical information when you have the Azure Portal open and show this to others. SubscriptionID, TenantIDs, LogAnalytics Workspace ID´s and so forth should be hidden when you demo „Azure Mask“ solves that problem! Some… Read more Demo Azure without showing your keys to the kingdom
Dear All! VS Code is my new editor-buddy for quite a while now and it just got an update to 1.25.0 wih 2 really cool features. 1.) Grid Editor Layout Until now, VS Code allowed 2 or more windows in a column kind of style. With the recent update, it allows a grid view, so… Read more VS Code Update 1.25.0 – 2 features we all have been waiting for
Azure ServiceMap is a great extension to LogAnalytics, measuring Processes, Connectivity and Performance for Windows and Linux Computers onPrem and in the Cloud. This script (from https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2017/08/29/azure-vm-extension-for-dependency-agent/ ) enables the ServiceMap extension to all VM´s in a defined ResourceGroup. I just tested this again and it still works fine.
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$version = "9.1" $ExtPublisher = "Microsoft.Azure.Monitoring.DependencyAgent" $OsExtensionMap = @{ "Windows" = "DependencyAgentWindows"; "Linux" = "DependencyAgentLinux" } $rmgroup = "Place the ResourceGroupName in here" Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rmgroup | ForEach-Object { "" $name = $_.Name $os = $_.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType $location = $_.Location $vmRmGroup = $_.ResourceGroupName "${name}: ${os} (${location})" Date -Format o $ext = $OsExtensionMap.($os.ToString()) $result = Set-AzureRmVMExtension -ResourceGroupName $vmRmGroup -VMName $name -Location $location -Publisher $ExtPublisher -ExtensionType $ext -Name "DependencyAgent" -TypeHandlerVersion $version $result.IsSuccessStatusCode } |
Hope that helps. R.
Until a few days, Log Analytics (OMS) had its own portal, which was really confusing for some people. Now Microsoft moved most pieces (still in progress) to the main Azure Portal. One good example is ServiceMaps, which can now be used directly in the Azure Portal blades. That looks great ! – even with customized… Read more Azure Log Analytics moves to the Azure Portal
Hi All ! Azure Automation allows the installation of Modules published on the PS Gallery, or beeing uploaded from a ZIP File. The ZIP-Upload can be automated with commands from AzureRM.Automation Module, but i was facing the following problem. When i automatically deploy an Azure Automation Account, how can i install a PowerShell Module from… Read more Install a PS Module from the PS Gallery in Azure Automation by Script
Dear all ! Well, actually, there is no term „Azure Service Account“ in Microsoft Azure, it is called an App with a Service Principal. So whenever you want to access Azure Resources programmatically, (i.e. via REST), you probably do not want to use a persons Usernam/Password combination, you want to use a GUID, dedicated for… Read more Create an Azure Service Account with PowerShell
A few days ago (Mid december 2017), Microsoft officially published the documentation for the Azure Consumption REST-API on the docs website. Link Enough trigger for me to start playing around with it and share my experiences. Overview To begin with, the API offers 6 different categories, which we can summarize down to 4, which are:… Read more Generate an Azure Consumption Report with the Consumption REST-API and PowerShell
LogAnalytics Workspaces can be used for many reasons. Run typical Operations Management for your Infrastructure Services Log-Consolidation engine for an Azure Automation Account Log Collector for Microsoft foreign Logs (Syslog, other custom Logs This blogpost will demonstrate how easy it is to create a Log Analytics Workspace. Step 1 – Logon to Azure with PowerShell… Read more Create a LogAnalytics Workspace with PowerShell