Chinny Chukwudozie, Cloud Solutions.

Azure PowerShell Function App automates Azure Storage file sync to secondary Storage Account.

September 18, 2017

Azure Storage Files is a sub service of Azure Storage Accounts. It offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol (also known as Common Internet File System or CIFS). The cloud File shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of…

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

August 15, 2017

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…

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

August 12, 2017

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,…

Configuring Cisco Virtual Switch System (VSS) on Cisco Catalyst 4500X Switches.

August 12, 2017

As part of a network infrastructure upgrade at a client site, I’ll be implementing Cisco VSS (Virtual Switching System). This technology will go a long way to meet some of the stated objectives of this infrastructure upgrade which include : Physical Hardware Redundancy, High Availability achieved by Switch Clustering, Self-healing, Increased bandwidth (10 GB trunk),…

Implement the Azure Invoice API in Azure Automation Runbook.

July 14, 2017

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…

Automate Azure Resource Group deployment with Azure PowerShell.

June 10, 2017

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…

Automate Azure Resource Group deployment with Azure PowerShell.

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

January 19, 2017

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…

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

November 16, 2016

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…

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

October 27, 2016

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…

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

October 19, 2016

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…