Deploying Azure Bastion

The aim of this post is to quickly and easliy deploy Azure Bastion Standard. By deploying Bastion Standard for a client, they were able to hand out Shareable Links to their remote users as well as offer native Windows 10/11 RDP /SSH tools instead of being forced to use their browser interfaces. Hope this helps… Continue reading Deploying Azure Bastion

Provision a NSG

The powershell script below explains how to create an NSG and then populates the Access Control List (ACL) with your custom Access Control Entries (ACE’s) / Ingress and Egress Rules. This powershell script is a step in my Azure Bastion deployment blog. Step 1: Create a new NSG Step 2: Provision the NSG ACEs /… Continue reading Provision a NSG

Using resource-specific tables instead of AzureDiagnostics

A synopsis of this post: 1. Azure resource logs explained Azure resource logs are platform logs that provide insight into operations that were performed within an Azure resource. The content of resource logs varies according to the Azure service and resource type. Resource logging is not enabled and collected by default. Diagnostic logging needs to… Continue reading Using resource-specific tables instead of AzureDiagnostics

Collecting custom text logs with Azure Monitor Agent

Many applications log information to text files instead of standard logging services such as Windows Event log or Syslog. This post explains how to collect text logs via Azure Monitor Agent from source virtual machines and sending these logs to a custom table in an Azure Log Analytics Workspace using a Data Collection Rule (DCR).… Continue reading Collecting custom text logs with Azure Monitor Agent

Provision a virtual machine

Below is another simple ps script to quickly deploy a B-sku entry level sandbox grade virtual machine. The OS hard disk tier will deployed as an SSD and has no encryption configured to any Key Vault. No data disks are attached.

Install Azure Dependency Agent

Ive decided to post my latest powershell script here after deep diving for about an hour to find a working solution. Hopefully, this makes your life easier in deploying the DependencyAgent using Powershell.