What is OMS and a Brief History of It
While discussing Azure/OMS topics in the community I often see incorrect usage of OMS (Operations Management Suite). That is understandable of course as Microsoft hasn't done good job at clearing out...
View ArticleDefining Input Parameters For Policy Definitions in ARM Template
My good friend and fellow MVP Tao Yang wrote a great post on Using ARM Templates to Deploying Azure Policy Definitions That Requires Input Parameters. Azure Policy has two terms that you should be...
View ArticlePlatform Image Azure Policy Definition Example
Azure Policy team has a GitHub repository of [Policy definitions examples](https://github.com/Azure/azure-policy). Recently I've been looking at some of the examples there and I've noticed that one of...
View ArticleDemystifying Azure Policies with ARM Templates
In my blog post [Defining Input Parameters For Policy Definitions in ARM Template](https://cloudadministrator.net/2018/07/17/defining-input-parameters-for-policy-definitions-in-arm-template/) I've...
View ArticleFree Book: Inside Azure Management v3
For the last several months Pete Zerger, Tao Yang, Kevin Greene, Anders Bengtsson and me have been working hard to update Inside OMS book. With the latest changes we are now on version 3 of the book...
View ArticleAzure Monitor Alerts Series – Part 1
Alerts are important part of our monitoring and probably the most important one. Getting data and visualizing it is the foundation for alerts but in order to move to actual monitoring you need alerts....
View ArticleAzure Monitor Alert Series – Part 4
The ARM template shows that we are filtering to Policy category. I am also filtering to specific operation - Audit. You can filter also on 'Microsoft.Authorization/policies/deployIfNotExists/action'...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Azure Naming Conventions and Tags Usage
In IT naming of resources has been around for quite some time. In some of the early days IT personal was using super hero names, constellation names, etc. to name their servers. That was when the...
View ArticleInside Azure Management V4 Book Now Available
The time has come to publish the Inside Azure Management v4 book. This is the only free book that focuses on Azure Management. If you want you can also support us with purchase from Amazon. Links for...
View ArticleAzure Policy for Sending Azure Activity Logs
One of my blog readers has asked me about policy for sending Azure Activity logs to Log Analytics. As I have [written...
View ArticleAzure Policy Policies not evaluated right away
[Azure Policy](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5000120) has a unique feature compared to other competitors when it comes to evaluating Azure Resources....
View ArticleControlling Azure SQL Firewall Rules
Recently on Microsoft Q&A there was question on how you can control Azure SQL Firewall rule in a way that only certain IP addresses are allowed to be configured. Naturally I gave general answer...
View ArticleTips on creating Azure policies for Azure SQL Databases
Azure SQL Databases is quite a big service and it is also one of the oldest. Because of these two there are a few architectural designs that you should be aware. Some of these are: * with every SQL...
View ArticleEnable Defender for Cloud Auto provisioning agents via Bicep
I hope this was useful information for you.
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