Intro As you cannot grant owner level permission in Azure Lighthouse (contributor is the highest level available to us) we need to circumvent a way around this limitation for Azure policy remediation. The solution to this is granting the User Access Administrator role with two delegated roles: Contributor & Log Analytics Contributor. This will allow …
I’ve been exploring how to retrieve the latest entities in table storage and how this could trigger an automation process. Whether this is via Logic Apps or Power Automate, I needed a solution where a new entry triggered my flow. Here’s my guide on how I’ve achieved this which I hope you may find useful …
Azure Chaos Studio is a new managed service (in public preview now GA!) by Microsoft. It allows you to inject real-world faults into your Azure infrastructure via a controlled experiment. This is an awesome tool to help test service resiliency in a controlled manner, whether that is high CPU or mimicking a network outage. Currently …
When I was trying to run terraform plan in WSL Ubuntu (20.04) it seemed like it had hung. However, when exiting from the process I was receiving the following error: The error was a red herring as my permissions were OK after double checking in Azure. Turning on the Terraform debug trace feature I found …
There are many ways to manage and keep an eye on Azure spend using Cost Alerts for subscriptions, departmental budgets, etc. (And even more recently in Preview at the time of writing, Azure Cost allocation). However, an additional tool in the Azure arsenal is to harness an Azure Dashboard. Using a dashboard can be a …
In this guide I will cover how to utilise the Azure REST API to invoke RBAC assignment to Azure Resoure Groups from a Logic App or Power Automate HTTP connector. This can be useful in business logic to automate assignments where they need to be specific to certain resource groups rather than inherited from the …
At the time of writing, Microsoft does not have a native backup for Table contents in Azure. The only method to backup table storage is to utilise the AzCopy utility. Specifically, version 7.3 as later versions do not support table storage service. This guide will demonstrate how to backup table contents using an Azure Function …
Enable or disable the ability to add guests to an individual Microsoft Team / M365 groups via Azure AD PowerShell. AzureAD Module Open PowerShell as Administrator Run Get-Module -ListAvailable *AzureAD* to check if the module is installed. If the AzureAD module is present run Uninstall-Module AzureAD to remove it Install AzureADPreview module Install-Module AzureADPreview Run …
Here’s how we can automatically create a new Active Directory user from a Microsoft Form, which will trigger a LogicApp to execute an Automation Runbook powershell script which creates the user. Microsoft Form Create a Microsoft Form with the new user fields desired. Azure Automation Account Create an Azure Automation Account Create an Hybrid worker …
