This post was originally on arlanblogs.alvarnet.com on November 6, 2021 but moved to Medium.com as the new home for Arlan’s Blogs. What is Azure Policy ? As Per Official Microsoft Article Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at-scale. Through its compliance dashboard, it provides an aggregated view to evaluate the overall state of the environment…

This post was originally on arlanblogs.alvarnet.com on December 27, 2021, but moved to Medium.com as the new home for Arlan’s Blogs. Introduction This is a monitoring and email alerting solution for Non-Compliant resources in Azure. Resources details The list of resources created by this Bicep Project are as follows : - Log Analytics Workspace Event Grid Topic and Subscription App Service Plan Application Insights

This post was originally on arlanblogs.alvarnet.com on January 28, 2022 but moved to Medium.com as the new home for Arlan’s Blogs. What is an Azure Landing Zone ? Azure landing zones are the output of a multisubscription Azure environment that accounts for scale, security governance, networking, and identity. Azure landing zones enable application migration, modernization, and innovation…

This post was originally on arlanblogs.alvarnet.com on March 2, 2022 but moved to Medium.com as the new home for Arlan’s Blogs. What is Azure Policy ? As Per Official Microsoft Article Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at-scale. Through its compliance dashboard, it provides an aggregated view to evaluate the overall state of the environment…

This post was originally on arlanblogs.alvarnet.com on March 10th, 2022 but moved to Medium.com as the new home for Arlan’s Blogs. Overview This bicep code is developed to automate deployment of a Azure Non-Compliance resource monitoring solution. …

The 3 overview steps to creating (or restoring) an Azure virtual machine (VM) from a stored snapshot of another VMs Operating System (OS) virtual hard disks (vhd). Create a Snapshot (already created for this exercise) Create Managed disks from Operating System (OS) and Data Disk Snapshots Create a VM from…

We regularly take new snapshots of a VMs vhds before testing major development changes, adding Windows updates, testing new application settings etc., to allow us to easily revert to the previous state of the VM if desired. In Azure, snapshots are taken of the virtual disks (vhd), not the VM…

This post outlines Steps 8–10 of the series of 10 steps to create an Azure P2S Connection. …

This post outlines Steps 5–7 of the series of 10 steps to create an Azure P2S Connection. Do these steps AFTER Steps 1–4 given in Setting up Azure’s P2S VPN Gateway with PowerShell -Part 1 Steps 1–4 for Creating P2S Connection: 1. Log in to Azure and set variables 2. Configure…