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Disaster recovery plan for Azure Key Vault using tags, PowerShell and Azure Function

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : November 17, 2020
• Categories : Automation ,Azure ,Power shell
• Tags : Arm templates ,Azure functions ,Backup ,Key vault ,Power shell ,Restore

By default the Azure Key Vault has softdelete enabled with a 90 day retention. This option will protect Key Vault items when deleted by accident. When deleted you are able to restore that item through the portal or PowerShell.
But what if someone has deleted the Key Vault itself with all the items and softdeleted items included. There is no option to restore a Key Vault. In this article I will describe a way how to backup and restore a Key Vault when deleted.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated – Part 4 AVD Clean up unused resources

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : October 18, 2020
• Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management
• Tags : Azure ,Cost management ,Microsoft m365 ,Power shell

The current situation, we have created new disks, snapshots, virtual machines, networks, images and session hosts. All the resources has been added to the existing AVD hostpool. Now it is time to cleanup the old resources, to keep everything nice and clean. In this part we will take care of removing components related to the old image version.

How to use Key Vault ARM templates and deal with sensitive parameters

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : October 18, 2020
• Categories : Azure ,Security
• Tags : Arm templates ,Key vault ,Power shell

At October 14, 2020 Mircosoft announced the public preview of ARM templates for adding secrets to Azure Key Vault. In this article I will explain a way how to use these templates.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated - Part 3 Create AVD sessionhosts on image version with ARM

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : October 14, 2020
• Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management ,Microsoft 365
• Tags : Arm templates ,Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Disk management ,Image gallery ,Power shell

This article is serie of posts about AVD Image Management Automated. In this part we are going to add new sessionhosts to an existing AVD hostpool based on a ARM template.

Azure Virtual Desktop Image Management Automated - Part 2 Save AVD image with Sysprep as Image Gallery version

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : October 6, 2020
• Categories : Azure virtual desktop ,Image management
• Tags : Automation ,Azure virtual desktop ,Azure ,Disk management ,Disks ,Image gallery ,Power shell

This is part two of a serie posts about AVD disk management. In this blogpost I will explain how to finish a disk with sysprep and deploy it as a version into the Azure Shared Image Gallery automated.

Monitor active M365 ServiceHealth services only with PowerShell

• Sander Rozemuller
• Date : September 29, 2020
• Categories : Microsoft 365 ,Monitoring
• Tags : Graph API ,Azure ,Azure functions ,M365 ,Microsoft m365 ,Monitoring ,Power shell

You have some Microsoft 365 (M365) customers which you like to monitor. Every day you are looking at the customer specific M365 portal looking for Microsoft event.

Logging in at the customers portal isn’t a very efficient way. Microsoft provides a lot of API’s which can be used for monitoring. By combining some of them you are able to do some really nice and smart things.