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In this simple blog post, I’m going to explain how easy it is to expand/resize your CentOS Linux VM disk. By default, an Azure Linux VM comes with a 30 GB boot disk. In this step, we’re going to expand this disk to 64 GB. Step 1 Shut down your Azure VM (or skip this […]
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I recently published another Azure update Blog post on ShareGate. Link here. In this post I talked about : Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher Azure Resource Manager template for Azure file share support Azure Monitor support for Windows Virtual Desktop […]
I recently started blogging for ShareGate : Every 2 weeks there will be an update with (my selection of) the latest Azure updates. In my first post I talked about : Azure Shared Image Gallery Azure Monitor for VM Guest Health Azure Firewall Premium Link In this blog posts I’ll explain the latest updates & […]
A couple of days ago I noticed someone was using the default datacenter region (West US) to deploy resources to instead of their local (West Europe) datacenter. I’ve asked that person for his reason. His response was that he didn’t thought that it made a significant difference…. To demonstrate the differences between the (Azure) datacenter […]
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When you have access to multiple Azure subscriptions from (former) customers for example, you may want to remove them when you don’t need access any more. In this blogpost I describe how to get rid of them without contacting their administrators. It is possible to self-leave an Azure AD tenant. Here’s the steps: Log into […]
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In this post, I’m going to explain how to publish an App service using the Application Gateway. An Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Core Components of the Azure Application Gateway [do_widget id=hootkit-notice-4] This “How to” shows you how to use the […]
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Recently I needed an easy function to add additional servers roles on several IaaS virtual machines on a customer platform. This is how I accomplished this. For this example I’m going to install the IIS server role, it works for other roles ofcourse. I’ve created an simple powershell script with the following content :
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Install-WindowsFeature -name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools |
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In my previous blog post I described how to deploy an VM using DevOps, fast and simple. But ofcourse you don’t want to store secrets in parameters files! Open your parameter file and search for adminPassword. It should look something like:
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"adminPassword": { "value": "This1sReallyReallyNotMyP@ssw0rd!" }, |
Now replace it with the following
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"adminPassword": { "reference": { "keyVault": { "id": "/subscriptions/<subscrcode>/resourceGroups/<rgkv>/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/kvName" }, "secretName": "YourAdministratorPasswordAndthenameofyoursecret" } }, |
subscrcode = the code of […]
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Recently someone asked me how to deploy an Azure service using Azure DevOps. In this Blog Post a simple howto how to deploy a virtual machine on Azure using DevOps. Step 1 Create an ARM template For this first step create an IaaS VM with all the settings you need. Notice in the final step […]
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Today someone asked my how to re-enable an Azure VM network adapter. Using an on-premise hypervisor like VMware you can use the console session to access and re-enable the virtual network adapter. In this blogpost I describe how to deal with this situation when it’s inside an Azure VM. Help is on the way! You […]
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When you have to manually install the Azure Site Recovery agent you must provide the Passphrase. In this blogpost I describe how you can find the Passphrase. Sign in to your configuration server, and then open a command prompt window as an administrator. To change the directory to the bin folder, execute the command cd %ProgramData%\ASR\home\svsystems\bin […]
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I’ve recently done and passed the Azure Security Engineer Associate AZ-500 Exam. This exam covers a wide range of topics and technologie. Before considering this exam, you should have good knowledge about Azure technology. I advice you to use the following certification path : My advice is first take the AZ-900 and AZ-103 exams before […]
Some time ago Microsoft added the encryption option on the disk pane (Azure IaaS properties). Now you don’t need to use the CLI or Powershell commando’s to decrypt/encrypt your VM disks. Just go to the encryption button and the options already speak for themselves. When you already have one disk encrypted and just added an […]
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Recently I ran into an issue on a project I’m working on. The customer has a Linux virtual machine running on Azure with a large data disk (20 TB). I knew – but forgot to remember – that Azure Backup doesn’t support disks larger then 4 TB (more info here). The specific drive is used […]
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When you have – like me – multiple Azure subscriptions and they all have the same subscription name (something like Visual Studio Enterprise – MPN for example ) it can be difficult to separate them. I advice you to rename your subcriptions and give them a clear name to identify them. This is how you […]
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In this blogpost I shall describe how you add an extra data disk to your Linux VM running on Azure. Step 1 Add a new disk to your Linux VM using the Azure Portal Choose Add data disk to add an extra data disk and choose create data disk. For demo purposes I quickly entered […]
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Recently I deployed some VMs on Azure. There was a small change to the naming convention afterwards so I wanted to rename the created VMs. This is how you can do this After a couple of minutes (depending on the size of the VM) the newly created server with the old disks, NIC etc. is […]
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This is how you can encrypt your Azure virtual machine disks :
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az vm encryption enable --resource-group "ResourceGroupOfVM" --name "VMName" --disk-encryption-keyvault "/KeyVaultResourceIDHere" --volume-type All |
You can find your keyvault Resource ID here : The reason that I used the Resource id instead of the keyvault name is that now it’s possible for the keyvault to be part of another resourcegroup. Use the following command […]
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In this blogpost I’m going to explain how you can still be able to send SMTP from your IaaS server running on Azure. As you might already know since Nov 15th of 2017 it’s no longer always possible to send SMTP on port 25 (I dig into that later). In that case Microsoft recommends that […]
Use this script to update all your Azure Powershell Modules to their latest versions. […]
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