Azure is constantly improving, and one area that has improved is the encryption of Azure Virtual Machines. You may have read a previous article of mine called Encrypt an Azure Virtual Machine by using Key Encryption Key, in this article I showed you how to encrypt the VM using a Read more…
Recently I needed to move a VM from one vNet to another. There are a few ways to do this, but for me, as the VM was not critical, I was able to stop it, then delete it, and then recreate it using the Managed Disk. Below I will go Read more…
The 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…
The 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…
If 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…
Recently 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…
Recently 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…