Back to Ignite – See You in San Francisco!
After seven years, I’m returning to Ignite! I’ll be helping run the Configuring a Modern Workplace lab, spending time at the Microsoft Booth in the Azure / Configuration areas, and joining the PowerShell community meetups. Come say hi! Continue Reading...
New Tool – Azure Policy OS Allowlist Viewer
Ever get lost in a spaghetti of Azure Policy JSON while trying to remember which OS versions are actually allowed? This new browser-based viewer summarizes your publishers, SKUs, and versions in a clean, searchable view. Continue Reading...
New Tool – Azure DevOps Pipeline Viewer / Editor
Ever find yourself scrolling through a mile-long Azure DevOps pipeline JSON file? This new browser-based viewer/editor makes it a breeze to navigate, search, and edit your pipelines without losing your sanity. Continue Reading...
The Case of the Cursed Release
Everything looked fine...until our Linux container refused to touch our build artifacts. Turns out PowerShell v5 zipped up our files with backslashes in their *names*. This post dives into a cursed bug with a surprisingly simple fix. Continue Reading...
How to migrate to Managed Identities and test locally with local debug!
Recently I came upon the need to harden how some Azure Functions were setup. Specifically, they were Azure Functions setup to fire and run some c# code when a message was dropped into a message queue. They worked great, but we would much rather use the security of a Managed Identity to connect, instead using of using a connection string. This guide will cover migrating a function over to using a managed identity AND also how to do this on local dev Continue Reading...
Solved! Missing mouse or trackpad on LG Laptops
Have you ever needed to do complex automation in Azure Devops? Like retrieving a token for one service and handing it off to subsequent commands to use? Then you might have been puzzled about the correct syntax to use. In this post, I'll give you a working example of how the syntax should be used to hand variables between bash and PowerShell tasks in Azure Devops Continue Reading...
