For any IT professional it is very important to be alerted or informed on any issue with the Infrastructure he or she is supporting. Same is true for Cloud! Though it is very rare, outages or planned maintenance do occur in Azure environment. Today’s blog is about setting up a process to alert teams with…
Category: Azure
Integrate Azure Security Center with Event Hub
Recently Microsoft announced capabilities to export Azure Security Center Alerts and Recommendations to Azure Event Hub , Log Analytics Workspace or integrate it to a 3rd party SIEM(Security Information and Event Management) system in your environment. In this post, I will share the process of exporting Security Center alerts to Azure Event Hub. Before we…
Add Tags to Azure Subscription
Tags help to logically organize Azure resources in the environment. It is one of the fundamental principal of good cloud Governance. Each tag consist of a Key and a Value pair. For example, a Key could be “Environment” and corresponding Value is “Development” , or it could be “Application” as Key and “Payroll” as Value….
Automate Azure billing report in Excel
In my previous post I talked about generating AWS Billing data for last 12 months in Excel file and also showed you how to create a chart on Excel showing cost comparison all using Powershell. To me this is a nice and quick way to generate such report and email to stake holders automatically. I…
List Azure AD Roles and Role Assignments using Powershell
In my previous posts I discussed about listing Azure AD users and groups and provided Powershell scripts to generate those quickly : List all Azure AD Users List all Azure AD Groups In this post I will discuss about Azure AD Roles and Administrators assigned to those roles. As per Microsoft document – Using Azure…
Create Azure Shared Image Gallery with Powershell
In my previous posts I wrote about automating Windows and Linux VM Image creation using Powershell and HashiCorp Packer : Create Azure Windows VM Image with Packer and Powershell Create Azure Linux VM Image with Packer and Powershell OS image helps you quickly deploy one or many Azure VMs with same configuration and baseline defined…
Create Azure Linux VM Image with Packer and Powershell
An image is required to deploy Azure Virtual Machine on Cloud. You can use a market place image that Azure provides. However, if you want to use a custom image with customization based on your company standards and baselines, you need to create a custom image. Custom image can be used to bootstrap deployments and…
Create Azure Windows VM Image with Packer and Powershell
An image is required to deploy Azure Virtual Machine on Cloud. You can use a market place image that Azure provides. However, if you want to use a custom image with customization based on your company standards and baselines, you need to create a custom image. Custom image can be used to bootstrap deployments and…
Azure AD application Certificate expiration report
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Once we register an Application with Azure AD, we configure Secrets or Certificates or sometimes both. This is required to set up application authentication and authorization, Sign-On or OAuth authorization service etc. The secret or the certificate we set on the application has an expiry….
Apply Tags on Azure resources
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. In my previous blog, I talked about benefits of tagging and how to tag resource groups using powershell. A script was also provided with some standard example tags – like, Environment, Budget Category, Application etc. Let’s keep on working on the same situation like last…