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Hi All, Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices and optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions based on that data. I recently detected that there is a Workbook in Azure Advisor that shows affected Resources from a Service Retirement In Azure Advisor click on Workbooks Select the Workbook “Service Retirement (Preview)” You will see a List of Service Retirement Notices and on the bottom the affected Resources in your Azure Subscriptions

Hi All, I did notice yesterday, that finnaly the Cloud Shell in Azure and M365 does not require a Storage Account anymore. Azure Got to Azure Portal and hit that PowerShell Icon on top near the Search Bar. The Cloud Shell starts and offers you to connect to Bash or PowerShell. I will use PowerShell here. You can select “No storage account required” but still are required to select an Azure Subscription.

Hi All, Last year i’ve created the Swiss Domain Security Report Q4 2023 where i ran a PowerShell 7 Script with up to 15 paralell Processes to analize the 2.5 Mio .ch Domains on a Virtual Machine on my Homelab. For this Year i am thinking about crating a more Cloud native approach with an Azure Function with a Queue storage trigger Storage Queue For that i needed to create an Azure Storage Queue

Hi All, A few Hours ago, a new major Version of the AZ (Azure) PowerShell Module has been released to PowerShell Gallery. PowerShell Gallery Az 12.1.0 The Release Notes contains a lot of updates I am using the new PSResourceGet here instead of the PowerShellGet commands. Show installed Versions and what’s available in PowerShell Gallery Get-InstalledPSResource AZ -Scope CurrentUser Find-PSResource AZ Uninstall the old Modules and install the current Modules

Hi All, Today i’ve seen the notification, that Azure Storage Explorer 1.34.0 has been released. GitHub Release v1.34.0 Installation Everything went smooth Updated Azure Storage Explorer Details from About Regards Andres Bohren Azure Logo

Hi All, A few Hours ago, a new major Version of the AZ (Azure) PowerShell Module has been released to PowerShell Gallery. PowerShell Gallery Az 12.0.0 The Release Notes contains a lot of updates I am using the new PSResourceGet here instead of the PowerShellGet commands. Show installed Versions and what’s available in PowerShell Gallery Get-InstalledPSResource AZ -Scope CurrentUser Find-PSResource AZ Uninstall the old Modules and install the current Modules

Hi All, Over a Year ago, i wrote an Article on how to Update the Microsoft.Graph PowerShell Modules on Azure Automate with ManagedIdentity Update Microsoft.Graph Modules on Azure Automation with Managed Identity Why do you write an Article again? There has been some improvements. With the AZ 11.2.0 released in January 2024 there was an update with the Az.Automation Module Az.Automation 1.10.0 Updated Module operation cmdlets to support Powershell 7.2 I did publish an Article about that here

Hi All, Recently i saw an Info, that Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Roles can now be activated with the Azure mobile app on iOS and Android. Time to test it out. Source: What’s new in Microsoft Entra ID? Azure Mobile App There is now a new “Privileged Identity Management” Feature. I t was way down, so i moved it up with the two bars in the Settings of the Startmenu.

Hi All, Today, i’ve stumbled about an Update of the Azure Connected Machine Agent - that is used for Azure Arc What’s new with Azure Connected Machine agent The first release of the 1.40 agent may impact SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc when configured with least privileges on Windows servers. The 1.40 agent was re-released to address this problem. To check if your server is affected, run azcmagent show and locate the agent version number.

Hi All, Today i’ve seen the notification, that Azure Storage Explorer 1.33.1 has been released. GitHub Release v1.33.1 Fixed Issues Installation Everything went smooth Updated Azure Storage Explorer Details from About Regards Andres Bohren Azure Logo