Have you ever thought you had accidentally deleted a VM, or removed a production resource when you thought you were working in the test environment? Azure Locks are for you! What are Azure Locks? There are two types of Azure Resource Locks: ReadOnly and DoNotDelete and their names are fairly self explanatory. A VM with …

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The Microsoft 365 suite is used by over a million companies worldwide. The CoreSuite solution from CoreView looks to help those customers better manage the efficiency, investment, and risks that come with the SaaS platform. Microsoft 365 comes with a number of portals, admin consoles, and associated tools that support …

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One solution to Website backups failing with “Timeout expired” Symptoms An Azure WebApp site was configured to backup using the built-in backup config. This had been working fine on a daily basis and then one day just started failing. Subsequent backups also failed indicating it was not a transient error, but other …

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We have 900 days until Windows Server 2012 (and 2012R2) goes End of Life. Here’s how you can use PowerShell to report back the number of days till a deadline. Details on the Windows Server 2012 Lifecycle can be found here: docs.microsoft.com To work out how many days until a certain date we can define two variables. …

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Ubuntu 16.04 is going End Of Life at the end of April 2021, so without a paid-for subscription there won’t be any new security updates. We can use a couple of methods in PowerShell to list affected VMs in a tenancy. Method 1: Image-based Virtual machines VMs built from images are the easier target - we can quickly look …

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The global pandemic of 2020 caused a lot of previously in-person events to go online. This means that even more events are now accessible to a global audience, and often at times that can fit around your work and home schedules. Here’s some upcoming tech events for May 2021. There’s some big events on in May- Microsoft …

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At Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021 it was announced that Windows Admin Center was now available for Azure VMs through the portal. This post covers how to configure that new feature in PowerShell. For the Admin Center to work we need two things - firstly we need to enable access from the machine accessing the portal to the …

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Azure Key Vaults now enforce a Soft-Delete feature to prevent accidental deletion. This post discusses how to use Policy to control the associated retention period. Soft Delete allows you to recover a key vault and secrets for the duration of the retention period. Once Soft Delete is enabled, which now happens when the …

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March 2021 is kicking off with the formal launch of the IT Should Just Work: Labs. These are tools and utilities, usually associated with articles on this site, which are being made available for general use.

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