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Blog posts April 2021

How to view the service principal of a managed identity in the Azure portal, Powershell and AzureCLI

After enabling/deploying managed identity (service principal) on VMs, one of my junior colleague questioned me, where is service principal of managed identity is stored. Basically Service Principal (MSI) is a user account (Service Account ) and it is created under Azure Active Directory, but after f…

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Use a Azure VM system assigned managed identity to access Azure Key Vault

While working one of the Azure project, I had a requirement to implement System Assigned Managed Identity to access Azure key vault secret programatically on Azure virtual machine inside the code without azure login. In my earlier written articles, to retrieve secret password from Azure Key Vault I …

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Create a Virtual machine on Microsoft Azure

Although I have written PART 9: CREATING AND MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM) USING MICROSOFT AZURE RESOURCE MANAGER PORTAL but it is the old article now, afterwords there are many updates came while creating an Azure Virtual Machine. New Azure VM updates are still easier to understand and configure, T…

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Create an Azure App registrations in Azure Active Directory using PowerShell & AzureCLI

This is step by step guide to configure App Registration on Azure Active Directory (AzureAD). This guide includes three ways to create App Registration using Azure Portal, PowerShell and AzureCLI. 

Azure Portal

Within Azure AD portal you will find the App registrations pane that provide the …

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Connect-AzureAD: One or more errors occurred. Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng'

While working on AzureAD (Azure Active Directory) with PowerShell module I was received below errors and my scripts where failing. I updated AzureAD module with Update-Module command to latest one but it was still throwing errors. After few testing I checked PowerShell version, it was latest Powe…

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Use Key Vault secret identifier url to get the secret value using Powershell

While working on Azure Key Vault I had the requirment to extract the secret value from Azure key vault Secret Identifier ID. 

Working With Azure Key Vault Using Azure PowerShell and AzureCLI

You can find Secret Identifier by going to Azure Key vaults, select key vault >> Secrets Name >> Curr…

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Working With Azure Key Vault Using Azure PowerShell and AzureCLI

This is second part of Create key vault and secrets with access policies in Microsoft Azure, In the this article I will use Powershell and Azure CLI to create and configure Azure Key Vault resource service. Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that provides a secure store for secrets. You can secure…

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Create key vault and secrets with access policies in Microsoft Azure

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service used to manage keys, secrets, and certificates. Key Vault eliminates the need for developers to store security information in their code. It allows you to centralize the storage of your application secrets which greatly reduces the chances that secrets may be leake…

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