I recently had a requirement to Save Mail Attachments to an Azure Blob. The easiest way for me was to use a Logic App. Before starting create an Azure Storage Account, create the Blob and the required folder structure. Once complete you can start to design the Logic App. 1.…
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Shutdown and Startup Azure VM’s based on Tags
Like many people we want to shutdown Azure VM’s when they are not being used, however with different time zones and working schedules this can vary. The obvious way is to shutdown VM’s based on Tags. Jobs can be scheduled through the Automation Account or via a Logic App if…
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Search Azure Blob for File
Unfortunately the Azure Storage Explorer or Azure Portal doesn’t allow you to search for a filename stored on a blob, so a simple way to is to run PowerShell script to return the results and paths. This example outputs to a .csv Hope that helps!
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Changing Azure SQL Firewall using Runbook
This Runbook will Add/Modify the Firewall Rules on an Azure SQL Server. This can be run interactively by removing the AzureRunAsConnection section. Additional it can be configured to run using Params (post to follow later)
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Retaining the same IP address in Azure Site Recovery
Let’s say you need to retain your hardcoded IP Address when you migrate VMWare VM’s to Azure using Azure Site Recovery, in this case I want to my server to retain it’s IP Address of 10.0.198.203 Here’s how you complete this. Login to the Azure Portal Open your Site Recovery…
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Install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04.1 AWS instance.
Nothing particularly difficult here, I just decided to put it all together in one place. This is for Ubuntu 18.04.1 on AWS. Once you’re connected via SSH to your AWS instance just follow these steps. Run Updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Install Apache sudo apt install apache2 Install…
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vciInstallUtils.exe has stopped working – VMWare Update Manager Install
Update this is still present in 6.5* Just a quick one this time. If every time you try and and install VMWare Update Manager you get the following error :- You may find this is due to your password having special characters in it 🙂 I recommend creating another account…
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Excluding Multiple Folders using rSync
I’ve started to test out the VMWare vCloud Air Object Storage (VCAOS – Sorry!!) Currently there’s no option for a GUI so I’m having to use GSUTIL to upload data. I make no secret of my dislike for CLI’s – I have no real reason to dislike them other than I’m…
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Colour Changes, Remove Facebook and Pinterest from Touchfolio
I’ve been working on a blog for a photographer friend, we had found a theme we’d like but there were a few changes we wanted to make. Before I go through he changes a mention to dimsemenov for his great Touchfolio theme We didn’t like the background colour of the post pages,…
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Opening delegated Mailboxes on Office 365 Hosted Exchange
A few months ago we looked different exchange solutions, in the end our choice was hosted Exchange on Office 365. Our setup is a little unusual as over time it’s been migrated from SBS through to a full Exchange 2010 product, some of the limitations of SBS meant you couldn’t do generic shared…