Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Az. PowerShell Modules. They are compatible with PSCore, and are the future for scripting, automating Azure tasks. The AZureRM Modules, will only receive Bugfixes, but no new features anymore. Azure Automation will be able to use Az. Modules around March 2019 Read more here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/blob/master/documentation/announcing-az-module.md Give them… Read more Az. Module 1.0 released
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
When querying data, the first thing we want to know is „What data is avaiable ?“. Azure Resource Graph (ARG), in its current iteration stores resources from a subscription with the following values: So there are 16 properties available for querying, which we will explore. the interesting thing here is that ARG stores also the… Read more Azure Resource Graph III – Entity properties
After a first insight into Azure Resource Graph (in public preview as of Oct 2018) here, lets do a bit of an analysis of the data, the Az.ResourceGraph Module provides. Lets say, we want to know which kind of resources (providers) we have in our subscription The search query for this is simple: „project type“… Read more Azure Resource Graph II – Output data type
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
Microsoft announced Azure DevOps yesterday (Sept 10, 2018). Below find a summary of changes. 1.) URL´s change: contoso.visualstudioonline.com gets dev.azure.com/contoso (with autoredirection of old links) 2.) Pipelines now support GitHub and any git repo 3.) Boards seem to have new enhancements, but i couldnt figure out the difference between VSTS and Azure DevOps. Maybe you… Read more Azure DevOps – Whats new ?
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