While working with ARM templates, I have created some tools with PowerShell to make it a little bit easier to do debugging and show risks like overwriting resources. I have written a post before about a script that shows the…
Lab-environments, I love them. Clicking around without a care in the world, discovering new things, learning by doing. Today I want to talk about local labs with hyper-V, using PowerShell Direct. With this great tool, you can send PowerShell-commands to…
In an earlier blogpost, I created a logic app in the portal to start a runbook through an Office365 calendar appointment. It’s very easy to create this in the portal. But it’s a lot more fun to automate the process!…
Last year at Microsoft Ignite, I posted this tweet, inspired by one of the sessions on the cloud shell. Since then, I barely used my iPad for Azure or Powershell, as I had easy access to a Windows laptop. But…
This one will be short and simple. I have been working on a project where i wanted to give people permissions to Azure resources for a limited amount of time. To do this, I created a runbook that could add…
This week, I had some time off to enjoy the holidays. So naturally, I was playing around with Powershell, just nice relaxing code. I found something on my computer had to be done manually and it was bugging me. So,…
I was looking for a way to test ARM Templates before the deployment would take place. Of course, the first step is Test-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment On it’s own, this is a nice tool. The large issues are displayed before deployment. I was…
I have created a lot of domain controllers and basic domain services. Some for production, most for testing or lab purposes. This was at first while learning how it all worked and later while teaching courses, testing new techniques and…
Last week I shared on twitter that I had build a clock. Once I was down the rabbit-hole, I put way to much time in this project and ended up with this: Look how fancy! And completely useless. But it’s…
For this post, I’m going to walk you through creating a custom image with DevTest Labs in Azure. We are going to use a VHD from a regular VM. For the copy action we will consider two methods: GUI and…