Most of the services in Azure such as Storage Accounts, Key Vaults or AppService Websites must have globally unique names. In this post we'll explain how to call the Azure APIs from PowerShell using a custom function to test the service name's availability
Author: Martin Schvartzman
Principal Consultant at Microsoft
Moving Azure Virtual Machines to a different region
Background There are various scenarios in which you would want to move your existing Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) from one region to another. For example, if you already deployed in one region, and a new region support was added which is closer to the end users of your application or service. In this scenario, … Continue reading Moving Azure Virtual Machines to a different region
Querying Azure Resource Graph
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the purpose and usage of the Azure Resource Graph. This is the first part in a series of posts, so it will updated with links to the following posts in the series as soon as they are published. Azure Resource Graph is designed to extend Azure Resource Management by providing an … Continue reading Querying Azure Resource Graph
Creating symbolic links with PowerShell DSC
Background In an Azure Windows VM you automatically get a temporary disk drive mapped to D: (on Linux it's mapped to /dev/sdb1). It is temporary because the storage is assigned from the local storage on the physical host. So if your VM is re-deployed (due to host updates, host failures, resizing, etc.), the VM is … Continue reading Creating symbolic links with PowerShell DSC
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