This week I’ve created some custom magnets to improve my whiteboard infrastructure diagrams. I refurbished my home office over the Easter Weekend and a long overdue addition to my working environment was a new magnetic whiteboard. I love using a whiteboard, both for designing and working things out on my own and also …

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Increase the security of your sites by removing unwanted HTTP response headers on an Application Gateway using Rewrite Rules and Powershell. Web servers often include headers to describe what version they are running, or what features they offer. You can help the security of your site by not sharing this information …

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How to use PowerShell to manage a retention schedule on blobs in an Azure Storage Account. Requirements An application is writing daily archives as blobs to a container in an Azure Storage Account. To keep costs down the application owner would like to retain only the last 7 days, plus the file from each Sunday. …

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How to copy data from a Azure Linux Web App using Microsoft’s AZCopy utility. Why There’s probably many reasons why you might want to do this. I was faced with a WebApp where the FTPS and Kudu file explorer were both misbehaving but the SSH console was fine. I wanted to extract the contents of the site to a storage …

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How to set the default location for Azure PowerShell cmdlets so you don’t need to specify it with each command. In a Twitter discussion yesterday Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) mentioned that being able to set a default region in Azure would be a nice feature. Whilst he was looking for this to be implemented across the …

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How to troubleshoot error TF401027 when a user with the Azure DevOps Contributor role and Basic (or Visual Studio) access level can’t create a new Repo. Symptoms User has the Contributor role on the Azure DevOps Services Project and has been assigned the Basic or Visual Studio access level so they can work with …

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A preview Azure feature allows a WebApp to be hosted behind a Network Security Group. This post explains the architecture involved and how to deploy it. An Azure Private Endpoint enables connection of a Application Service (Web App) to a Virtual Network (VNET), giving it a private IP rather than the public address …

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This week I presented a Festive Tech Calendar 2021 session about Azure Resource Manager Locks. This post includes a link to the session recording and some accompanying resources. Session Azure Resource Manager Locks are a valuable tool in protecting those Resources Santa brought you from accidental deletion. In this …

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This week I received notification that my Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification was due to expire in 180 days, and I took the opportunity to renew it using the free online renewals process. Notification The email arrived 6 months before the certification was due to expire, giving me plenty of time to …

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December 2021 sees the return of the month-long Festive Tech Calendar with a whole host of content being released every day. There’s loads of exciting things happening in this month-long extravaganza with videos, blogs, quizzes, podcasts, and activities to entertain and educate. Topics include Azure, Teams and Viva, …

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