Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Azure storage accounts is Microsoft’s durable, highly available, scalable and secure storage solution on cloud. It helps storing flat files, media object, images, binary executable etc. in cloud. Storage accounts come in different types and access tiers. Refer Microsoft documentation for detailed information on different…
Azure unmanaged disks status complete report
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Azure Unmanaged disk is a Microsoft provided Virtual machine disk solution. However, this is not in use so much now-a-days since the introduction of Managed disk. With unmanaged disk, you have to create a Storage Account to store the disk files (VHDs) as Blobs and…
Service Now Change Management using Powershell
In previous post, I talked about Service Now Incident management using Powershell. In this blog, I am going to talk about Change management using Powershell with an example. Again, the scenario remains the same, still trying to automate a lot of stuff and this time leveraging Service Now Change management. In one of my previous…
Service Now Incident Management using Powershell
IT Incident Management using Service Now tool is very common in most organizations now-a-days. Service Now is one of leading ITSM tool available in market. Few months back, I was tasked with automating some of our Service administration process.While automating server process of server administration, I started exploring options to automate Incident management using Powershell….
AWS EC2 CPU metric report using Powershell
Amazon CloudWatch is cloud based monitoring solution by Amazon. It provides with data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes and optimize resource utilization. It has many more features apart from those I just mentioned. Please refer to AWS documentation for more details. CloudWatch provides you with options to create nice…
Automated File share audit using Powershell
For any organization, it is very important to have proper Governance around File server and share access management. For regulated Organization, it is really very critical to do regular auditing on shares, access management and identify any discrimination and mitigate those ASAP. In recent past, I worked on a project for one customer where we…
Move Azure VM to another Subscription using Powershell
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. You may have come across situations where you want to move an Azure VM from one Resource Group to another. Sounds familiar, right? Luckily, Microsoft has provided a very cool and easy wizard based tool through the Azure Portal. Refer here for more information on…
Complete Azure SQL Database inventory
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Azure SQL Database is a general-purpose relational database managed service. It enables creation of highly-available and high-performance data storage layer for the applications and solutions in Microsoft Azure cloud. With Microsoft’s cloud-first strategy, the newest capabilities of SQL Server are released first to SQL Database,…
Complete Azure SQL Server inventory
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. SQL Logical Server in Azure is a logical construct that acts as a central administrative point for multiple single or pooled databases. It is the hosted fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) database engine and is the parent resource for databases, elastic pools and data warehouses….
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resource inventory
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Azure Kubernetes Service is a managed service on Cloud by Microsoft that lets you quickly deploy and manage Kubernetes Clusters. It helps quickly and easily deploy and manage containerized applications. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience. AKS helps elastic…