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Enforce Azure AD authentication on your storage account!

Enforce Azure AD authentication on your storage account!

Jul 9, 2021 | Azure AD

People who follow my blog know that I am a big fan of securing Azure resources through Azure AD.  Leveraging your (hopefully) well-managed organization credentials to access Azure resources, is way better than using and sharing access keys all over.  You can also use...
Logic Apps Standard: what’s in it for you?

Logic Apps Standard: what’s in it for you?

May 26, 2021 | Logic Apps

Yesterday, the new Logic Apps runtime – called Logic Apps Standard – was GA’ed.  This is a real game-changer in the Microsoft integration space.  During the private and public preview, I intensively played around with the new runtime.  In this blog...
Insufficient permissions to… while being an owner!

Insufficient permissions to… while being an owner!

Mar 17, 2021 | Azure CLI

Lately, I banged my head on an access rights issue.  I was automating an Azure governance through Azure CLI, which included the management group and subscription hierarchy.  My Azure DevOps service principal was owner of the root management group, because it had to...
Resolving the Azure AD Object Id with Azure CLI takes ages!

Resolving the Azure AD Object Id with Azure CLI takes ages!

Feb 10, 2021 | Azure CLI

Recently, I had to retrieve the Azure AD Object Id of a certain Azure AD Group.  Because my script was already intensively leveraging Azure CLI, I used the az ad group list command. My command used the –query functionality to find the appropriate Azure AD group,...
Help! My Azure policy is not firing!

Help! My Azure policy is not firing!

Jan 25, 2021 | Azure Policy

Lately, I was involved in auto-provisioning a complete Azure governance setup.  The automation was done through Azure CLI, as this offered the most flexible solution for my customer.  Policy definitions were created via the az policy definition create command.  While...