Azure Update Manager is great in the portal. But I don’t want to click through the portal every time a group of servers needs patching. I want one HTTP call: “check updates for all servers with tag...

I wanted to try that approach of creating a file in a storage account and having it automatically processed into a database without any manual intervention for a long time. Now I came up with a fic...

Scenario I had the need to upload some service reports from a virtual machine (VM) to SharePoint. I wanted to do this securely, without embedding credentials in my code. Storing a client secret or ...

Multitenant SaaS and managed-service scenarios frequently need to read data from a customer’s Microsoft Entra ID tenant, without ever storing a client secret or certificate for that customer. This ...

Azure SQL Elastic Jobs let you run a T-SQL script across many Azure SQL databases on a schedule or on demand - think nightly maintenance, cross-database reporting, or rolling out a schema change to...

If you use GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and also the GitHub Copilot CLI, you’ve probably hit this problem: custom agents, instructions, and skills all live under %USERPROFILE%.copilot\, and they ...

Series Table of contents: Part 1: Infrastructure planning Part 2: Prepare GitHub Part 3: GitHub Workflows Part 4: Terraform Deployment Part 5: Nested Virtualization This is the sixth ...

Series Table of contents: Part 1: Infrastructure planning Part 2: Prepare GitHub Part 3: GitHub Workflows Part 4: Terraform Deployment We continue our journey of building a nested virtu...

Series Table of contents: Part 1: Infrastructure planning Part 2: Prepare GitHub Part 3: GitHub Workflows We continue our journey of building a nested virtual machine in Azure. In the fol...

Series Table of contents: Part 1: Infrastructure planning Part 2: Prepare GitHub We continue our journey of building a nested virtual machine in Azure. In the following article, I will disc...