It has been a couple of month ago, Microsoft announced that it is possible to set tags on subscriptions. This makes totally sense and was a long awaited feature. Good practice is to use Azure Policy to set tags on resources, but there are cases where it is not possible to use Azure Policy. Well, […]
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Logic Apps – Build Your Own Azure Cleanup Workflow
One common problem we all share when it comes to working with Azure is cost and “garbage”. Those two relate in proportion to each other, meaning the more “garbage” you own in Azure, the more you have to pay. Simple? Yes indeed. What do I mean in terms of “garbage”? Ok, I will ask you […]
Azure DevOps – Commit URL On Azure Resource Tag (Part 2)
In my previous part I built a solution where I used https://rebrandly.com service to shorten the commit URL and add to a tag on a storage account. The problem might be, that you don’t want to us a public link shortening service like https://rebrandly.com or any other like https://bit.ly etc. you might be afraid of […]
Azure DevOps – Commit URL on Azure Resource Tag (Part 1)
When you deploy an Azure resource like VM, storage account etc. via Azure DevOps you don’t know from which commit in your repository it had been deployed. The only thing you can assume that it was probably the latest run of your pipeline which deployed that resource. There is no obvious connection between the ARM […]
Azure Stack – Use Function To Generate SAS Token For Blob Content
Introduction When it comes to Azure Stack, a lot of customers want to know what can Azure Stack do for them or in other words what are the use cases for Azure Stack. Let’s assume you need to exchange files or any other blob content either between systems or users on-premises. This could be a […]
Azure Bot Service – MAX Automation and Monitoring Bot
I had a dream! I had a dream about talking and chatting with my computer and then would receive a spoken or written answer to my question. In a similar way like this movie scene . Which sounds like a dream, could become reality for you or maybe it already is in your company. This […]
PowerShell – Comparing Management Pack Version
I bumped into an interesting problem while writing a custom PowerShell module. The module should compare the management packs from a SCOM management group and some local repository. If the local repository has a higher version number than the currently installed management pack, the script should import the management pack into SCOM. This post should […]
SMA – Cannot create unkown type ‘{clr-namespace:Microsoft. PowerShell. DyncamicActivities} Activity_xxxxxxxxx_Nested’
I have done many projects using Service Management Automation and PowerShell. One specific error I haven’t seen so far in the job exception of the SMA runbook is this…
ARM Template – Deployment Error “[Subscription().SubscriptionId]” The request is invalid…
Recently I authored some ARM stuff in Visual Studio and I had a need for getting the current subscription ID the template is being deployed to. So there is a helper function you can call like this… “subscriptionId”: “[subscription().subscriptionId]” I used it in the template like this… …but as soon I tried to deploy the […]
OMS – Azure Scheduler Solution
UPDATE 07.08.2017 21:51: I found a bug in the ARM template which made the dashboard not appearing. I fixed it just now, in case you deployed the solution, just redeploy it. Sorry for that hassle. Currently I am doing some more OMS stuff and therefore I also took a deeper dive at building ARM templates […]