I wrote an Azure Function in Powershell and while I was developing I found out that my logging was not reporting correctly in Application Insights. When the host logging was set to Trace I would expect that all my debug and verbose would appear in the logs of the Azure…
A quick write up on a issue that was freaking me out. I have a management VM in our lab and was writing a script to automatically deploy a “Hyper Converged” system with Storage Spaces Direct remotely from the management VM. I created a script that copies over the mastervhd and a…
I was playing around with Azure API apps and the Azure Authentication / Authorization feature. I used this before when consuming API Apps in combination with Azure Web Apps that use SPN’s for the Web App to access the API App on behalf of the user. Let’s assume I have built…
Just a quick write up. Last week i had to find a owner of an IP who causes me a lot of headache and also some network interruptions as well. I have done a lot with network virtualization and now environments gets bigger and bigger its hard to find out who…
This year I am going to speak at Experts Live. Experts Live is a Dutch event organized by the community for the community. It’s really a fast growing event. If I recall correctly the last 3 years, they achieved a grow of audience by over 15-20% each year. So the…
PowerShell what?! What is PowerShell Direct? It is a new feature that allows you to manage your virtual machine directly from the Hyper-V host. This feature was shown at Ignite and I was really excited about it. So imagine you have provisioned a VM, you want to manage it off…
I was struggling with the PowerShell API for Azure Pack. I imported the publishsettingsfile as described in this post. In the past when I wanted to get all the VM’s I could simply run: Get-WAPackSubscription "Mark Scholman" | Select-WAPackSubscription Get-WAPackVM And that would give me all my VM’s running on the Azure Pack Subscription. But…
Short recap on what is Git: Git is a distributed repository. Everyone has its own copy of all files from the project (Repo) stored on their computer. Advantage of Git is that every user in the project team can work offline. In this post we take a closer look on…
In this post we are going to play with SMA and VMM. I wanted to achieve that a VLAN depended network was fully provisioned by Service Management Automation (SMA) in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 (VMM). I also wanted to create the option to de-provision the network. Virtual…
In this blog post I am going to explain how I manage my Powershell scripts / projects. Let me start with my toolset: Visual Studio Online Free Subscription Github for Windows to use Git Shell Sapien Powershell 2014. Next we create a new VS Online account. Go to http://visualstudio.com and…
