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Azure: Email a Backup Report with PowerShell and Office365

Nov 9, 2019 · 1 min read · microsoft azure powershell office365 ·

This PowerShell snippet compiles a daily report of backup jobs on all the Recovery Service Vaults within the current subscription. It then uses the Office 365 SMTP server to mail this report out to chosen recipients - if you’re not using O365 then just change the SMTPServer, Port, and UseSSL arguments as …
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Azure Arc Announcement

Nov 6, 2019 · 3 min read · microsoft azure azure-arc msignite2019 ·

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Microsoft released an 87 page “Book of New listing the announcements from this weeks Ignite Conference and right at the top is Azure Arc. It’s not just alphabetical order that put’s this new product here, in my opinion this is a real step forward by Microsoft towards fulfilling the early promise of their Azure Hybrid …
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Improving Documentation via the Community.

Oct 31, 2019 · 3 min read · documentation microsoft github vmware powercli ·

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Have you ever had to deal with incorrect documentation? Or been frustrated by a typo? Or been annoyed that a how-to guide uses an old version of an interface?

Now you can fix it!

Azure: Deploy a WebApp with PowerShell

Sep 3, 2019 · 2 min read · microsoft azure powershell app-service ·

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A quick run through using PowerShell to deploy a new WebApp. ASP.NET code for the website has been zipped up (into myapp.zip) and this code snippet will upload it to a new WebApp, hosted in a new App Service Plan and a new Resource Group.
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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Jul 18, 2019 · 4 min read · microsoft azure ·

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Earlier this week I took and passed the Microsoft AZ-900 exam- the requirement for the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals badge. Whilst this is the entry-level cert and not a requirement for the more advanced ones in the pathways, it is still useful for experienced techies moving into the Azure space, perhaps from other …
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Experiences using Microsoft To-Do

Apr 12, 2019 · 4 min read · microsoft todo ·

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For over a year now I’ve been using Microsoft’s To-Do application to manage and organise my tasks. This has probably been the longest I’ve stuck with a personal task manager for some time, and I believe the app has just the right amount of features for me, sitting somewhere between Outlook tasks and a …
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PowerShell Maths

Mar 25, 2019 · 2 min read · microsoft visualbasic powershell ·

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A colleague recently popped in a support request after noticing that the Calculator app wasn’t installed on their computer. This prompted an office discussion on how else you can solve sums when sat in front of a computer, and I mentioned you could just use PowerShell.
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Rise of the Full Stack Vendors

Oct 24, 2018 · 3 min read · rubrik microsoft dell azure aws msignite2018 ·

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In a recent Datanauts podcast Chris Wahl was discussing Azure and Azure Stack with fellow Rubrikan Mike Nelson and Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover (If you haven’t already, you can check out the podcast for yourself- Datanauts #148). Jeffrey made some interesting observations about the changes in alignment of some of the …

Get the Windows Install Date of a remote computer with PowerShell

Sep 11, 2018 · 2 min read · microsoft windows powershell ·

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Get the Windows Install Date of a remote computer with PowerShell

A quick script that came up in response to a situation where I wanted to know the date a workstation on the network was last built without visiting the machine or interrupting the currently logged on user. PowerShell to the rescue!
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PowerShell Snippet - Find Windows 2008 VMs before EOL

Jan 16, 2018 · 1 min read · powercli vmware vcenter windows microsoft ·

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PowerShell Snippet - Find Windows 2008 VMs before EOL

Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ends in January 2020- just two years from the date of this post. Four years ago I put up a script to find XP and 2003 VMs, and I’ve modified this to search a vSphere environment for powered on VMs running Server 2008 as a Guest OS: 1Get-VM | 2 Where {$_.PowerState -eq …