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Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps

Introduction As with most things, there are a number of ways to utilize Azure DevOps to orchestrate your management of Azure Resources through terraform. This post will walk through a way that I have found to be successful and relatively easy to maintain. It will not however describe the many benefits of using an Infrastructure … Continue reading Getting Started with Terraform on Azure DevOps →

Going Serverless with Azure Functions & Powershell: SendGrid

  In this post, we will discuss the process of creating that solution using Azure Function Apps and SendGrid to send emails based on your Powershell Functions which runs in your local machine. We will see that how can we build a serverless email solution that reports your disk usage with Azure Functions, SendGrid and … Continue reading Going Serverless with Azure Functions & Powershell: SendGrid →

Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 3

This is third part of the series. In the previous posts we have prepared test environment for PAM deployment, created and configured all needed service accounts, installed SQL Server and prepared PIM server for further installation. Now we have two forests – prod.contoso.com and priv.contoso.com. In PROD we have set up Certificate services, Exchange server, … Continue reading Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 3 →

Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 2

This is second part of the series. In the previous post we have prepared test environment for PAM deployment. Now we have two forests – prod.contoso.com and priv.contoso.com. In PROD we have set up Certificate services, Exchange server, ADFS services and configured two test applications – one is using Windows Integrated Authentication and the second … Continue reading Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 2 →

Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 1

Background: Privileged Access Management (PAM) is relatively new feature of Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and is becoming more and more popular. Intention of this Blog series is to provide step by step instructions how to deploy PAM right way and how to evaluate its features. In this series I will use Azure VMs to simulate … Continue reading Step by step MIM PAM setup and evaluation Guide – Part 1 →

Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 3 Advanced Calculations

  Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to analyzing Azure Cost Microsoft offers different tool set with different capabilities; Cloudyn New Azure Cost Management Azure Consumption … Continue reading Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 3 Advanced Calculations →

Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 2 Tags

Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to analyzing Azure Cost Microsoft offers different tool set with different capabilities; Cloudyn New Azure Cost Management Azure Consumption API … Continue reading Analyzing Azure EA Cost Using Power BI – Part 2 Tags →

Analyzing Azure EA Consumption Using Power BI – Part 1 Setting Up Data

Analyzing the usage and tuning resources is a key responsibility in Cloud Management. We need to understand where we spent , what are the trends and where we can tune our spending. When it comes to analyzing Azure usage Microsoft offers different tool set with different capabilities; Cloudyn New Azure Cost Management Azure Consumption API … Continue reading Analyzing Azure EA Consumption Using Power BI – Part 1 Setting Up Data →

How to fix the ATA Light Gateway installation Error 0x80096005: Failed to cache payload/ Failed to verify payload

7 December 2018 Recently I was doing a review of a Microsoft ATA installation with a customer when we started facing the following symptoms: ATA center was complaining about an unresponsive gateway (Domain controller) On the gateway involved, the Microsoft Advanced Thread Analytics Gateway service was stuck in “Starting” status The memory was not over … Continue reading How to fix the ATA Light Gateway installation Error 0x80096005: Failed to cache payload/ Failed to verify payload →