Azure Stack: Azure Stack TP1 POC download is available!

The Azure Stack POC is up and running again. With a new updates to make installation easier If you haven’t tried it yet! Get started! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/try/ Read much more in the documentation (you can even help contribute since the docs are open source!) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-stack-overview/

By |2016-02-22T23:05:23+01:00februar 22nd, 2016|Azure, Azure Stack|Kommentarer lukket til Azure Stack: Azure Stack TP1 POC download is available!

Azure Stack – PowerShell: VM Admin GUI Tool – Beta 1

Welcome to my first Azure Stack blog. Recently I have been exploring the Azure Stack POC TP1 which is available for everyone at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ So far I am very impressed, of cause always bear in mind that this is the first technical preview POC. Today I made a small tool for helping me to have a good overview of my Azure Stack tenant VMs. In Azure Stack the VMs are named by their GUID in Hyper-V. This makes perfect sense, since multiple tenants could easily name their VMs the same name. But when administrating your hyper-v host, It can be [...]

By |2016-02-22T14:27:35+01:00februar 22nd, 2016|Azure, Azure Stack|Kommentarer lukket til Azure Stack – PowerShell: VM Admin GUI Tool – Beta 1

Azure PowerShell: How to assign access to a subscription using PowerShell (RBAC)

I had this question from a customer recently, and when I searched the net I wouldn’t find any specific examples. This example assigns a user as a Contributor to the subscription. When you assign roles to resources, all you need is the URL for the resource and provide it to this cmdlet. Here you go: Login-AzureRMAccount $userEmail = "[email protected]" $SubscriptionName = "Test Subscription" Get-AzureRmSubscription -Subscriptionname $SubscriptionName New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -SignInName $userEmail -Scope "/subscriptions/$($sub.SubscriptionId)" -RoleDefinitionName Contributor That’s all for today!

By |2016-02-18T13:41:05+01:00februar 18th, 2016|Azure, Powershell|4 Comments

Azure Automation / SCOM: Triggering a runbook as a Recovery task using Webhooks

  If you havent heard about it, the future of automation is here! In the form of  “Azure Automation”. also known as “OMS Automation” when it is part of the Operational Management Suite (OMS). This cloud service can control our automation, just as System center Orchestrator has done for years. It works in a very similar way, but has been extended to support more features, for instance it supports what is known as Webhooks. A webhook enables us to trigger a runbook using a standard HTTP call, making it easier to integrate from other tools (could for instance be used [...]

By |2016-02-10T15:41:56+01:00februar 10th, 2016|Azure, Operations Manager (SCOM)|1 Kommentar

DHCP Guide

This document describes common scenarios for implementing DHCP in relation to PXE boot with particular focus on Configuration Manager. Assumptions and audience Audience must familiar with basic IP networking principles. The background In order for a client to perform a PXE boot, there must be a DHCP service available, this is not required to be a Microsoft DHCP service. Any DHCP server is good. The following diagram shows a typical network setup In this case the client and the server is on the same network, which is the simplest setup you will come across, normally the setup will be more [...]

FTP / SFTP monitor for SCOM

In this post we'll make a script for a FTP / SFTP monitor that can monitor the FTP/SFTP status, by doing the following operations: -Log in -Upload a file -Download a file -Delete the file Since Powershell doesn't have any built-in ftp support I was looking for some alternatives, and since I use WinSCP normally for ftp/sftp I found that they also support Powershell scripting, so why not take advantage of this? This guide was written with great help from WinSCP's own page: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_powershell Get the SSH fingerprint (This part is only nessary for the SFTP solution). Since we need the SSH [...]