Category: Azure

Using Azure update management (AUM) you can schedule the updates for your Azure VMs and report on compliance. AUM is an Azure automation account feature. Obviously you can manually create each schedule but that is time consuming and…well manual. This is where PowerShell comes in. If you don’t have the PowerShell Az module already installed then you can follow this Microsoft document: Install Azure PowerShell The first job is to connect or login to your…

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In Azure delete VM is an easy task. Just go to the VM and click “Delete” on the menu. The issue is that only deletes the Virtual Machine resource, it does not delete the dependant child resources such as disk and network interface. Obviously you can manually delete each child resource but that is time consuming and…well manual. This is where PowerShell comes in. If you don’t have the PowerShell Az module already installed then…

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Azure resource tagging is a great way to label or group your Azure resources based on custom names and values. For example you could have a tag named “owner” for specifying the resource owner or “patchphase” for noting what phase to patch the OS or application running on a virtual machine. The issue with Azure resource tagging is the management of the tags when you have more than a handful of resources, so pretty much…

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