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Azure PowerShell: Create Azure Storage Account and Containers

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 11, 2020

One of the core services within Microsoft Azure is the Storage Account service. There are many service that utilize Storage Accounts for storing data, such as Virtual Machine Disks, Diagnostics logs, and others. You can also use the Azure Storage Account service to...

Azure PowerShell Cmdlet Naming Convention and Discoverability

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 2, 2020

Getting to know what Azure PowerShell cmdlets to use for different functions and provisioning services can be difficult to remember. However, just...

PowerShell: Create Azure IoT Hub

by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 17, 2020

It's simple to provision an Azure IoT Hub service instance using the Azure Portal. However, there are time when you need a more DevOps style...

Azure PowerShell Az: List and Set Azure Subscription

by Chris Pietschmann | Dec 13, 2019

Using the Azure PowerShell Az commands to select and list the Azure Subscriptions to run commands against are important tasks when scripting and...

Using Chocolatey with Azure VMs

by Dan Patrick | Apr 17, 2018

Automate Everything. That’s my new mantra, and it should be yours... Like many of you, I’m an infrastructure guy and grew up with the crutches of...

Nested VMs in Azure with one click? You must be crazy…

by Dan Patrick | Apr 10, 2018

When I first heard that you could run nested VMs with Azure, I ran over to my laptop to deploy one of those shiny new Version 3 VMs! Once my Host...

Introducing the Azure Cloud Shell

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 7, 2018

The Azure Cloud Shell has been out for some time now, as an embedded Bash and PowerShell command-line shell / terminal within the Azure Portal. It...

PowerShell now Open Source AND Cross-Platform! Linux, macOS, Windows

by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 18, 2016

Windows PowerShell the new Shell (first released in 2006) for Windows that provides the ability to implement Task Automation, and Configuration...

What is Azure Resource Manager?

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 27, 2016

In the early days of Microsoft Azure the Portal was the primary tool to go in and configure your cloud components. After some time the Azure Service...