March 03, 2025 • 5 min read
TL;DR For reasons of having less cheap Azure credits, the blog moved from Ghost, which is similar to Wordpress (has a frontend, a backend, a database, etc) to…
December 08, 2024 • 5 min read
TL;DR Use the CosmosDBManagementClient (control plane), not the CosmosClient (data plane) when creating a Cosmos DB container with a vector embedding and…
July 27, 2023 • 5 min read
Today I queried for a meme for the first time, making today MemeQL Day. Content ratings come from this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services…
July 18, 2022 • 5 min read
TL; DR - We take real public IP data from heartbeat logs of VM Insights. We also use Logic Apps to add in tag data, which connects computers with hostnames, as…
July 05, 2022 • 5 min read
Why this? Glad you asked, several reasons: Studying for the AZ-700, the Azure networking exam, and figured I would do myself that which seems to have the status…
April 23, 2022 • 5 min read
It's Always DNS As system administrators well know, DNS matters. If you doubt this, just Google "It's always DNS" and you will find no shortage of r/sysadmin…
April 24, 2021 • 5 min read
Establishing Credibility - or Why Should I Listen to This Guy? I think you should read this if you have some interest in getting Microsoft certifications…
September 13, 2020 • 5 min read
TL;DR Here we use an Azure Automation Hybrid worker to execute a runbook on a local computer whose public IP address we want to use to update an A record in…
November 26, 2019 • 5 min read
Short version: For the v1 runtime, there is a nice document that describes where this is. https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Retrieving…
September 23, 2019 • 5 min read
This morning I learned that the expiration status of an AD user is not synced to Azure AD by Azure AD Connect. Apparently Microsoft is working on this, but that…
September 06, 2019 • 5 min read
So I had a backup vault that was backing up an Azure Files share. From the Portal I removed the share a protected item, so the backup vault now had no protected…
April 18, 2019 • 5 min read
Note: With the changes to security requirements for Microsoft partners this solution is no longer feasible, as it relies on being able to authenticate into an…
April 17, 2019 • 5 min read
Google searches for the error lead down the path of errors with Azure tools. This was not the issue for me. The issue for me was that some of the keys in the…
