Tag: Azure
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.2 – Cost
This is probably the single most important question to anyone who is considering following this series of guides. If it’s not cost effective, what’s the point? Before we start, please know that I am no Azure cost “expert.” I can point you in the right direction and provide examples, but you need to consult with…
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PowerShell DCR Log Analytics: Part 2.1 – Overview
Welcome! This is part one of the second generation of the Log Analytics learning series. Here we will cover… Why a Second Generation? To those familiar with the first generation of this series, you may be wondering why I would go back and re-do so much documentation. Well, in short, a lot has changed. Simply…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 3: Client Side Script
Following my last post, this part will cover the deployment of the client-side script as well as detail how it works and how you can adjust it. I have written about the topic of deploying scripts via proactive remediations a few times now such as for the Log Analytics side. The deployment itself will be…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 2: Function App
Following my last post, this part will cover the deployment of the Function App as well as gathering of the values from the Function App we will need for the next part. Update:Following my recent post on Security Updates for HTTP(s) Function Apps, I have started off by updating the Windows 11 Group Tag Conversion (GTC)…
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Automating the Conversion of Intune Group Tags for Windows 11 Upgrades Part 1: Overview
I have a fun one to talk about today. This is the first part in a three-part series which covers the use of PowerShell and an Azure Function App to automatically change over Windows 11 devices to a new group tag post upgrading from Windows 10. This is something I have had cooking for a…
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Security Update for HTTP(s) Function Apps
Howdy folks! I have good news! Great news actually, as I think this will let me start to remove the annoying red security warnings on all my HTTP function apps. Thanks to the work of the @NickolajA of the MSEndpointMGR team, there is a new authentication method for HTTP Functions which is more secure than…
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Using Visual Studio Code to Write, Edit, and Locally Test PowerShell Azure Function Apps
Azure Function apps are great. They are currently (to my knowledge) the only decent gateway to upload or pull information out of Azure from client devices via PowerShell, that is without needing to store things like secret keys directly in your code which obviously you don’t want to do. There are currently two main methods…
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Saving a Buck by Temporarily Disabling Application Insights
This post will discuss the topic of disabling Application Insights on a Function App when not needed in order to save money. I decided this would be best to have as its own post given the amount of post’s I will likely have around Function Apps. This way, I can easily reference back to this…
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Windows Toast Notification Based Password Expiration Reminders
Unfortunately, even as of February 2023, Microsoft still doesn’t have a good solution (or really any solution) to provide employees on Azure joined devices with notifications about the fact that their password will soon expire. This is an unpleasant surprise for anyone who is used to their old local domain joined devices and the simple…
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