PowerShell Secret Management and Azure Key Vault
Today I want to show you how easy It is to access Azure Key Vault with the Secret Management module from the PowerShell Team at Microsoft. What is the Secret Management Module? Today every Secret...
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Accessing Azure Key Vault Through Azure Automation
The Challange Today I tried to access an Azure Key Vault secret inside of an Azure Automation Runbook. I don’t want to use an Azure Service Prinicipal (Run As Account) because you have to handle th...
Get Windows Update Information from Microsoft with PowerShell
Today I had the challenge to find information for a specific Windows Update. I only know the KB number of that particular Windows Update but I wanted to get the following information: Name of ...
Delegate access in Active Directory with PowerShell
In this blog post I’m going to show you how to delegate Active Directory permissions to other Active Directory groups. Prerequisite for that is the PowerShell Module ActiveDirectory. You can get t...
Ansible Part 2: Azure Inventory
Series Table of contents: Part 1: Install Ansible Part 2: Azure Inventory Ansible is a agentless system. So we have to write inventoryscripts targeting our environment. In my case It Is Azu...
Ansible Part 1: Install Ansible
Series Table of contents: Part 1: Install Ansible Part 2: Azure Inventory In this series you will see how to use Ansible with Azure. In this first part we will provision a Azure Linux VM a...
Add Custom ArgumentCompleters to your CMD-Lets
If we take a PowerShell CMD-Let like Get-AdComputer and try to search for a specific computer, you have to specify the filter- or the identity property and you have to remember the name. If you hav...
Signing PowerShell scripts
In this post i will tell you why It’s important to sign your skripts. If we look at a clean installed pc, PowerShell scripts can’t run by default. This is blocked by Microsoft due to security reas...
Hosting Your Own NuGet PowerShell Repository
Today I want to show you how to host your own NuGet Repository for uploading PowerShell Modules / Scripts. There is also a method for hosting a NuGet Fileshare, but for production environments it ...
Converting XenServer VMs to Hyper-V Gen 2 Events
Today I’m going to show how to migrate your XenServer VMs to Hyper-V Gen2 Vms using the following tools: XenCenter XenConvert 2.3.1: XenConvert 2.3.1 PowerShell Skript to convert a Gen1 Hyp...