Creating Azure Firewall Policy Rule Collections in Network Collection Group...
Those who have configured Rule Collections for a Azure Firewall Policy whether via GUI or scripting will know how tedious the task can be due to the amount of time for any type of change to be applied...
View ArticlePowerShell script to bulk convert Azure Firewall logs in JSON Line format...
This post serves as a follow up to my:Converting Azure Firewall logs in JSON format created from Archive to a storage account diagnostic setting to CSV format...
View ArticleUsing Azure Resource Graph Explorer to determine what resources are sending...
One of the questions I am frequently asked is how we can effectively determine what resources are sending data to a particular Log Analytics Workspace. Those who are administrators of Azure will know...
View ArticleUsing an Azure Function App to automatically Start and Stop (Deallocate)...
One of the most common questions I’ve been asked in the past when it comes to cost management in Azure is what are the options for powering off and on virtual machines based on a schedule. A quick...
View ArticleCreating Azure Storage Account Containers and adding Metadata using a list on...
I recently worked on a project where we had to create hundreds of containers in multiple Azure Storage Accounts because we needed to the storage account SFTP service and in order to jail users into...
View ArticleGenerating unique IP visits rendered into a column chart with kusto query for...
I recently worked with a client who needed to quickly host a static website requiring zero dynamic content and little to no updates for years. Given the short runway available and the team being cost...
View ArticleDeploy ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI Service in 6 minutes with PowerShell
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been one of the most talked about services since its launch on November 30th, 2022 amongst my professional contacts as well as personal friends. What this Chat Generative...
View ArticleConfiguring Postman to use OAuth 2.0 for application and delegated...
The difference between application and delegated permissions and how to use Postman to authentication against Entra ID / Azure ADEntra ID / Azure AD authentication and authorization are important...
View ArticleSecuring Azure OpenAI with API Management to only allow access for specified...
I’ve been spending most of my weekends playing around with Azure’s OpenAI service and two of the personal projects I’ve been working on are:How can I secure access to OpenAI’s API access so control can...
View ArticleHow to log the identity of a user using an Azure OpenAI service with API...
The single question I’ve been asked the most over the past few months from colleagues, clients, other IT professionals is how can we identify exactly who is using the Azure OpenAI service so we can...
View Article"204 No Content" returned in Postman when attempting to write logs to a data...
I’ve been working on my Part 2 of 2 post to demonstrate how we can use Event Hubs to capture the identity of incoming API access for the Azure OpenAI service published by an API Management and while...
View ArticlePython script that will asynchronously receive events from an Azure Event Hub...
One of the key items I’ve been working on over the past week as a follow up to my previous post: How to log the identity of a user using an Azure OpenAI service with API Management logging (Part 1 of...
View ArticleUpdating aztfexport generated "res-#" resource names with PowerShell scripts
Happy new year! It has been an extremely busy start to 2024 for me with the projects I’ve been involved it so I’ve fallen behind on a few of the blog posts I have queued up since November of last year....
View ArticleAccessing SharePoint document library with AI Search for Azure OpenAI GPT
The first quarter of this year has been insanely busy and has led to my inability to blog as much. I have been carving whatever time I have over the weekends to continue testing new Azure AI Services...
View ArticleUsing a Logic App to copy files uploaded to a Storage Account to SharePoint...
A common use case I’ve been asked frequently in the past is what would be the best way to automatically copy any files uploaded to an Azure Storage Account over to SharePoint Online. The Storage...
View ArticleMy last post on Blogspot
This will be my last post on Blogspot after writing my first blog post here on July 5, 2010. The last 14 years has been quite the journey for me in terms of professional development and I've enjoyed...
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