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PowerShell List All Azure Resverations

Recently in one of the Azure project my client was utilizing Azure Reservations Instances (Azure RI) they wanted a Microsoft PowerShell script from me to pull the list report. Below is the screenshot of all configured reservations on the Azure Portal.

Microsoft Azure reservations All succeded scope subscription VM RI Virtual Machine Powershell az.reservations module subscription cost optimization.png

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Get started and configure certificate-based authentication in Azure

Connecting SSL certificate based login to Azure can help increased authentication security, if you maintain certificates very well. In my case I wrote few scripts and I wanted to automate  Azure. As my user account is configured with MFA (My scripts scheduling was failing due to this) and I didn't w…

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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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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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Creating a new user in Azure AD using oneliner PowerShell and Azure CLI

I was testing few Labs on Microsoft Azure active directory and wanted to create few Azure AD users for testing purpose. I have already installed az powershell module, In the below script when you supply password it has to be in securestring format. 

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How to switch to other Azure AD tenant using PowerShell and Azure CLI

This is small guide shows how you can switch or change Azure Active Directory tenant using Powershell and Azure CLI. Before The first step I will show from portal how to switch or change to another domain in Azure active directory. Once you login into portal.azure.com either go into menu and select

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Microsoft Azure Rest API using PowerShell Part 2

While working on Microsoft Azure Rest API using PowerShell script, there is prerequisite to create a service principal (App Registration) first and use its client id and secrets in headers to generate bearer token key. But I was looking to use my existing username and password as credentials. For …

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Microsoft Azure Rest API using PowerShell

Using Microsoft Azure REST API is great way to automate Azure Resources and operations. Some times I have found PowerShell Az module is not present on remote servers and I need to automate azure things, Rest API is very handy at the time when features which are not available on PowerShell module AZ.…

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Connect-AzAccount The 'Connect-AzAccount' command was found in the module 'Az.Accounts', but the module could not be loaded

While connecting to Azure using powershell with Connect-AzAccount cmdlet I was receiving below error. As troubleshooting steps I tried to update/install Az module from online Microsoft PowerShell repository with -Force and -AllowClobber parameters, tried to Import Module Az, Az.Accounts on PowerShe…

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Create and manage Azure budgets

Whenever I assign permissions on new Azure Subscription to new colleage groups I always create either new Azure budget or manage existing budget alert group to receive necessory subscription cost spending communications. After creating or managing budget I can ensure users are informed of the subscr…

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Add and manage TLS SSL certificates on Azure Web App

Uploading to Azure Web Apps Using FTP

Web apps works as very good hosting plan, you can host your website apps on line with Azure very easily. This is 3rd article in the series how to upload files to web app. Once Azure Web Apps is configured, next step is to upload custom web application built with php + html codes on it. Go to the Res…

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Azure azcopy login error Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'Microsoft Services' and cannot access the application '579a7132-0e58-4d80-b1e1-7a1e2d337859'

While working with new version 10 of azcopy.exe I was facing error while login. After logging in the browser it was not accepting my username and password to login to Azure.What it says is I am not able to login to '579a7132-0e58-4d80-b1e1-7a1e2d337859', and my user account doesn't exist for login.…

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AzCopy copy transfer fails with 403 This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission

Azcopy is a great command-line tool for automating Azure storage, it is a simple yet powerful command line interface that allows you to copy files to and from Azure storage and between Azure storage accounts. I was doing POC of the latest version of azcopy.exe, (There 2 different flavors available f…

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Configure a custom domain in Azure Web Apps

Create and deploy a website with Microsoft Azure web app service plan

I was testing Microsoft Azure web app resource service for one of a incoming project, it allows you to publish and manage your website easily without having to work with the the underlying servers, storage, or network assets, basically it is a PAAS (Platform as a service), it is helps you to focus o…

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Powershell Azure Az module Install-Package cannot convert value 2.0.0-preview to type system.version

While installing/upgrading Azure PowerShell az module I faced below error. I was using Powershell Desktop Version 5.1 and it by default comes with Windows 10 OS. I cannot install PowerShell Core (another application) due to restrictions. So thought of using whatever I have on my received laptop.

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