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Locks can be used to prevent accidental deletion of Azure Resources. But what happens when you remove a lock to perform maintenance and forget to reapply it? Azure Automation and PowerShell can be used to make sure locks are reapplied.
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Taking a snapshot of a disk is often a useful precaution before making a big change to an Azure VM. However, it’s easy for them to get forgotten about and remain on your account eating up budget. This PowerShell snippet will find old Snapshots in your subscription.
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Stopped, but not deallocated, Azure VMs still cost you money. This article looks at how we can find those servers using PowerShell.
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If you run WebApps in Azure you may have recently received a notification that PHP 7.3 will shortly become unsupported. This post shows how to find and update those apps.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When running a one or more WordPress sites it’s important to make sure they are running an up-to-date application. This PowerShell function will check if a site is outdated.
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