Category Archives: Azure

Function Apps using Passwords – KeyVaults!

By | September 18, 2020

This will allow you to securely stick a password or any other secret in a Key Vault for usage in a PowerShell function app (or anything else). You can of course stick the password or whatever directly in the app settings or even an (encrypted) file in your function app but this way has four… Read More »

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Microsoft/Office 365 PowerShell in Azure Functions – AzureAD Module and Graph

By | May 10, 2021

I’m a big fan of running powershell in function apps. Sorry, no that’s wrong – I’m a big fan of NOT running powershell on “reporting servers”, “management boxes”, “that vm that does the 365 stuff” or anywhere where there is even the slightest chance I’m going to find myself fixing a problem on a windows… Read More »

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Setting up an AAD App Registration/Service Principal for Power Platform/Function Apps

By | February 17, 2021

Its just one of those things. Everything is great in your tenant all best practise, no creaky old servers anywhere then the phone rings and someone from the BI team says they need an hourly output of some stuff in csv and the columns have to be in a particular order. Or someone NEEDS a… Read More »

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Microsoft/Office 365 PowerShell in Azure Functions – Setup an app and VS Code

By | August 1, 2020

You know that reporting server? Runs those PowerShell scripts to grab custom reports, add group prefixes and other general 365 maintenance tasks? Uses that global admin password that is exempt from MFA because it needs to run these scripts or uses a highly privileged ClientID/Secret? Means anyone that can get access to the drive with… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Four – Server Infrastructure Resources

By | December 29, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Four goes through the included server infrastructure resources for the design.… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Three – Network Resources

By | July 25, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Three goes through the Virtual Network elements of the design All… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part Two– General Azure Resources

By | July 25, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part Two goes through the genaral Azure reources required for the design.… Read More »

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Azure Virtual Datacentre Design – Part One – Overview and Scoping

By | August 2, 2020

This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud. Part One gives a quick run down of the scoping and an… Read More »

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