Reading Time: 3 minutesBelow you will find a list of what is going to be tested in the new AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam and a link to a resource that I think will help you learn and pass the exam. It is a work in progress at the moment and I Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Ignite is currently happening and the new Azure exams have been announced. Below is a list of the new exams with links to further information. Soon I will start doing some new blog posts like my AZ-102 study resource one. Azure Administrator Role This new exam has already been Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently the Azure Security Center (ASC) team have released a preview of a new PowerShell module they have been working on, AzureRM.Security. This module is designed to allow you to manage the ASC automatically. You can view the module on the PowerShell gallery here. Below I will show you how Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt work, I am using a few B-Series VMs in Azure. For what we use them for, they are mostly ok until recently. One of my VMs started to get sluggish and when checking, I could not see much wrong with it. The VM in question was running with the Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day I was having a look around the Azure VM blade and came across an option called Run Command. I have never seen this option before so of course, I clicked it, and I am glad I did. From inside this section you are able to run scripts Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other day I was setting up Sophos Central and wanted to connect it to my Azure Active Directory. This would allow me to quickly find any unprotected VM’s I have running in Azure. To get Sophos Central to connect I needed to find my Azure Active Directory Tenant ID. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf like me you have been using Azure for some time you may have some servers still running with unmanaged disks. On the 2nd August 2018, Microsoft announced the ability to migrate unmanaged disks to managed disks using the Azure portal. You have been able to convert unmanaged disks to Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been creating some CNAME records on one of my domain registers DNS portal. They had recently migrated to a new portal to make things “easier”. This has caused a lot of issues, the last issue I had was being unable to create CNAMES with a – in Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I have been improving the security of my Azure subscriptions. I wanted to protect some resources from accidental deletion and I also want to protect some resources like NSG’s from accidental changes. To accomplish this I decided to use Azure Locks. Azure Locks come in two different levels, CanNotDelete and ReadOnly. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst doing some daily Azure Administration I came across an error on one of my App Services. The App service in question uses vNet Integration and the certificate for the virtual network had become out of sync. I am not 100% sure how this happened, but there was an issue Read more