Tag Archives: azure

Azure Guest Policy Configuration – A look behind the curtain

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Marcel Zehner

If you work with Azure you probably heard of Azure Policy. It’s a key component for governing your infrastructure and services to audit and enforce proper compliance. Azure policy can not only be used to audit and govern Azure resources, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, blueprint, compliance, governance, guest, policy, remmediation, virtual machine, vm | Leave a comment

I am now officially a Community Hero!

Posted on 24/02/2020 by Marcel Zehner

What a surprise in my inbox today! I am now an #AzureHero because I was nominated by a colleague of mine! I was obviously selected to to be one of 550 community heroes that get this badge. Not so sure … Continue reading →

Posted in Exams/Awards | Tagged azure, azureheroes, community, communityhero, communitypower, enjin | Leave a comment

Free Azure Services!

Posted on 15/12/2019 by Marcel Zehner

People who are keen about Microsoft Azure often ask if they can use free Azure services to learn about the platform. There is indeed a way to get free access to Azure to start exploring the platform.

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, credit, explore, free, free account, free services, microsoft, start | Leave a comment

Managing multiple Azure customers – but how?

Posted on 01/10/2019 by Marcel Zehner

As a service provider that works with a variety of customers, you need a way to manage multiple environments in an easy and efficient way. Azure offers different approaches for this that I want to cover in this blog post.

Posted in Azure | Tagged aad, ARM, azure, azure ad, b2b, customer, delegation, guest, lighthouse, management, partner, permissions, rbac, service provider | Comments Off

Azure Portal Sign-In Issues

Posted on 22/09/2019 by Marcel Zehner

I have seen different Azure Portal login issues, in my own environments as well as in customer environments. Sometimes it’s somehow not possible again to login to the Azure Portal anymore and all you get back is a “Sign-In failed” … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged 90072, azure, azure portal, login, login issue, sign-in, sign-in failed | 25 Comments

Integrate Azure DevOps with Teams

Posted on 02/08/2019 by Marcel Zehner

I use Azure DevOps a lot when it comes to customer projects, mainly for infrastructure as code deployments. Azure DevOps supports a variety of service hooks that allows to interact with various other services. Microsoft Teams is one of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, DevOps, hook, infrastructure as code, release, release management, service hook, teams | Leave a comment

Azure Management Group IDs

Posted on 02/07/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Sometimes you need to target a management group id, e.g. when you import a policy definition and want to select a management group as the policy definition scope. I discovered that sometimes people struggle with this procedure when using the … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, group, guid, hierarchy, id, mag, management, managementgroup, root | Leave a comment

Using Terraform Cloud Remote State Management – a quick introduction

Posted on 28/05/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Some days ago Hashicorp announced the availability of the free-to-use collaboration features in the Terraform cloud. This allows individuals and teams to easily store state information in the cloud and make it accessible from anywhere.

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure, cloud, hashicorp, IaC, infrastructure as code, remote state, state, terraform | 1 Comment

Azure Resource Tags in JSON Format

Posted on 16/03/2019 by Marcel Zehner

This is a quick one: We all know that using Azure Resource Tags is a key element in a company’s governance strategy. Tags are used on resources to ensure you stay in control (e.g. to set an owner, department or … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, azure governance, azure management, Control, governance, json, tags | 2 Comments

Azure Resource Graph Introduction

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Marcel Zehner

The most important part of Azure governance is to keep control of your Azure resources while not loosing agility and speed. There are several tools, procedures and services that assist you getting in control of your Azure resources. One I … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged azure, Control, govern, governance, graph, graph explorer, resource management, resources, speed, transparency, transparent, visualization | 3 Comments