Category: Azure

• Automate the deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery for Hyper-V to Azure with PowerShell.

  Azure Site Recovery service enables businesses ensure business continuity by keeping their workloads and applications running on Virtual Machines and physical servers available if a site goes down. Site Recovery replicates these workloads running on VMs and physical servers so that they remain available in a secondary location if the primary site isn’t available. It…

  jbernec

  October 4, 2017

  Azure, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Virtual Machines, BCDR, Hyper-V 2016, Nested Virtualization, Recovery Services Vault, Windows Server 2016

• Automate Azure VM Deployment and Disk Encryption using PowerShell and ARM Templates..

  PowerShell helps me better understand the internal workings of complex Cloud based operations that in many instances have a lot of moving parts. Better understanding helps determine ways to automate these operations that could otherwise take much time and repetition to accomplish.I developed the following Deploy-ManagedEncryptedLinuxVM PowerShell function to automate the provisioning, installation of LAMP…

  jbernec

  September 27, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Apache, ARM Templates, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure PowerShell, Azure VM Extension, Bash Script, CentOS 7.3, CentOS Linux, LAMP, Managed Disk, MariaDB

• PowerShell Function Concurrently Starts up/Shuts down Multiple Azure Resource Manager VMs.

  One of the more relevant and cost saving tasks when working in Azure Cloud is fast and efficient shutdown and startup of virtual machines. Some of the options available could be to : a) Iterate through a csv list of VMs or Resource Group  of VMs and serially shutdown or startup the VMs. This can…

  jbernec

  August 15, 2017

  Azure, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Automation, Azure IaaS, Azure Infrastructure as a Service, Azure PowerShell, Azure VMs, Azure VMs Shutdown, Azure VMs Startup

• Remove Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) from a WS2012 R2 with PowerShell.

  I decided to tear down my Azure Lab IaaS and ASR infrastructure and rebuild it. The process involves removing the ASR configurations, Recovery Vaults, S2S VPNs, VNets and Azure VM running as a Azure based Domain controller for resilience with on-premise infrastructure and Azure deployed Apps. The next steps will include uninstalling the Domain Controller,…

  jbernec

  August 12, 2017

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, Azure, Azure Site Recovery, Azure VPN, DCPromo, Domain Controller, FSMO, Microsoft Hyper-v, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Active Directory Domain Services, ADDS, ADDSDeployment, Azure, Azure Resource Groups, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, PowerShell 5.0, WS2012 R2

• Implement the Azure Invoice API in Azure Automation Runbook.

  The new Azure Invoice API enables Azure Subscription users with the appropriate role assignments to download and view current and past Invoices programmatically. Till now, this was only possible via the Azure Management Portal. For Subscription users to be able to download these invoices, the account administrator needs to enable the “Access to Invoice” feature…

  jbernec

  July 14, 2017

  Azure, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Automation, Azure Runbook, AzureRM Invoice API, AzureRM Key Vault, PowerShell Scripts

• Automate Azure Resource Group deployment with Azure PowerShell.

  

  I developed the following PowerShell function to automate the creation and removal of Azure Resource Groups based on Azure AD Group membership in a Demo Azure subscription. The script is deployed as a Runbook in an Azure Automation account and scheduled to run once a day. As new users are added to a designated Azure Active Directory security…

  jbernec

  June 10, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Automation Runbooks, Azure AD, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Resource Manager Portal

• Configuring an Azure VM From a Sysprepped Source Image using ARM PowerShell.

  While working on an Azure IaaS deployment, I was required to configure an Azure VM using a generalized image in a different resourcegroup.In this post, I want to document my experience using Azure Resource Manager Powershell cmdlets to achieve the related tasks. The Sysprep tool in the C:\Windows\System32 directory of the windows Azure virtual machine…

  jbernec

  January 19, 2017

  Azure, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Network Interface, Azure Resource Groups, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Resource Manager Portal, Azure Resource Manager PowerShell, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Virtual Machine Config, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Networks Subnet

• Deploy WS2012R2 AD Domain Controller in Azure-OnPrem Hybrid Environment using Resource Manager (IaaS) Virtual Machine.

  As part of the process of extending my on premise infrastructure environment to Microsoft Azure, I have configured the Azure S2S VPN, an Azure Virtual network and other Azure based components within an ARM resource group to facilitate the implementation of the hybrid infrastructure. In a recent post, I wrote about the steps to design…

  jbernec

  November 16, 2016

  Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, Azure, Azure VPN

• Copying an Azure Cloud Blob (VHD) between different Storage Accounts and Resource Groups with ARM PowerShell.

  While working with Azure, I came across a situation where I needed to quickly provision an Azure Virtual Machine from an existing sysprepped VHD in a different storage account and resource group using the Azure Resource Manager deployment model. This can be achieved using Azure Resource Manager PowerShell cmdlets. It is worth noting that an…

  jbernec

  October 27, 2016

  Azure, Azure Windows PowerShell

  ARM, Azure Copy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Resource Manager PowerShell, Azure Storage Explorer, Blob, Cmdlets, VHD

• Enable Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core Virtual Machine Protection using existing Azure Site Replication Policy.

  In this post, I’ll be writing about my steps for enabling on premise Virtual Machine protection to Azure Site Recovery using an existing Hyper-V Site Replication policy. In this deployment, I’ll be adding and registering a Hyper-V Core Server 2012 R2 to Azure Site Recovery. The process differs from the steps in registering a full…

  jbernec

  October 19, 2016

  Azure, Azure Site Recovery, Failover Cluster, Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Microsoft Hyper-v

  Azure Classic Portal, Azure Replication, Azure Replication Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Site Recovery Provider, Azure Site Recovery Services Agent, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure VM Protection, Azure VPN, Hyper-V Sites, Recovery Services Vault