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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Amongst the many topics covered at the latest London VMware User Group, a new memory tiering technology called “Project Capitola” caught my eye. The London VMware User Group meeting was online again in March 2022 and as always featured a wide variety of topics. The day kicked off with a keynote from Duncan Epping, …

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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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February 2022 saw the 6th vRetreat virtual event happening online with sponsors Cohesity and Progress Software in attendance. The brainchild of Patrick Redknap, vRetreat brings together a selection of vendors with a panel of virtualisation and technology professionals. This time round we had sessions with Cohesity and …

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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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The VMware vExpert award recipients for 2022 have been announced and I’m pleased to say that I am on the list for the seventh consecutive year. The vExpert award is VMware’s “global evangelism and advocacy program” and is awarded for one year. I’ve been a vExpert since 2016 and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone …

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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 recent exchange on Twitter started me thinking about when do I take the opportunity to introduce something new, or better, into the projects I’m working on. How do we balance a project deadline against the longer-term benefits of improving and automating? Is the incentive the lower ongoing maintenance? This is my …

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If you’re auditing your vSphere hardware inventory here’s a PowerShell/ PowerCLI snippet to show the Vendor, Model, and Serial Number of all the ESXi hosts in your environment.

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