If somebody would have to build the users and groups of the whole galaxy into a single AzureAD, group memberships would play a big role. For an alien it would then be easy to understand who is member of what part of the galaxy. Lets take a little – not too serious – example: How… Read more MS Graph for Aliens
Querying data needs always filtering capabilities. ARG, has a powerful query language that allows complex queries with just a few characters of typework. Knowing how to filter data is importtant, so that you can use the power of the ARG engine before you retrieve the data to your session (PowerShell in that case), especially with… Read more Azure Resource Graph IV – „Where“ and string operators
At Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced the availability of Azure Resource Graph. Link to Docs So whats it all about ? When running IT in Azure, it is sometimes necessary to know details from your Azure Resources and you typically query it via PowerShell, the CLI or the REST API directly. Microsoft has figured out heavy… Read more Azure Resource Graph I – first steps
Dear all ! We hear so much about IoT and the Cloud so I thought, a practical example of how to combine one of the most popular IoT devices, the Raspberry PI, with Azure Automation is appreciated. Whats the use case? When building this, you will have a Raspberry PI with a push-button, and when… Read more Use a Raspberry PI to trigger Azure Automation runbooks
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