Category: Azure Windows PowerShell

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Create a UPN Suffix using PowerShell for Office 365 Migration.

  In preparation for Office 365 migration, we had to match the current on premise users’ logon name (UserPrincipalName) with their email addresses to eliminate any user confusion and ease the outlook authentication process .As an example, The on premise logon name is : TobeGray@contosolabs.com Email Address is : Tobe.Gray@contosoconsults.com To match the On premise logon…

  jbernec

  November 18, 2015

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0

  Domain controller, Domain Name, Email Address, Office 365 Migration, On Premise Logon, Outlook Authentication Issues

• Configuring AD Group Filtering with Microsoft Azure AD Connect Tool.

  Microsoft has finally introduced Active Directory group filtering with the release of Azure AD Connect. The one tool to replace AADSync and include ADFS functionality.In this post, I will outline my steps for setting up AAD Connect with Single sign-on, password sync, group filtering and the exchange online attributes sync. 1) Download the Microsoft Azure…

  jbernec

  August 12, 2015

  Azure AD Sync, Azure Windows PowerShell, Directory Synchronization, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2

  Azure AD Connect Office 365

• Generate Office 365 User License Report with PowerShell.

  As we continue expanding our Office 365 deployment from OfficeProPlus to include Exchange Online and Archiving, it’s become increasingly necessary to reconcile and report on current AD Synced and cloud users with their specific subscription and licenses quickly and efficiently. I want to post a quick PowerShell one-liner that generates a report on current Office…

  jbernec

  May 27, 2015

  Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0

  Azure AD Windows PowerShell, Office 365, OfficeProPlus, PowerShell 4.0, Scripts