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…
Tag: 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…
Azure DevOps Audit report in Excel
In my last few posts I have discussed about Microsoft Azure DevOps Users, Groups, License audit etc. Periodically, we run those audits to perform access review and license true up. Refer to my previous posts here: Azure DevOps Users and Groups Report in Excel Azure DevOps basic User and License Audit In this post, we…
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 DevOps basic User and License Audit
In my previous post I discussed about Azure DevOps and shared a script to generate users and groups report in an Excel spreadsheet. We can periodically generate such report and perform audit on users and groups based on Company requirements. Today, I am going discuss about license usage and user activity audit. A common use…