I started a side project on a Discord server where I have loads of automation plugged into specific channels for updates I want. After about the 5th runbook, things became a bit messy. I needed a solution that kept my github repo in sync with my Azure Automation accounts runbooks, but I also needed to […]
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Automate your Fantasy Premier League updates into a Discord channel using an Azure Automation PowerShell runbook, secure variables, and a scheduled trigger. Why I Built This Every Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season, my friends and I ask the same thing: “When’s the next deadline?” or “Is this a double gameweek?” To stop the guesswork, I built an Azure Automation
Title: Building a “Resume Rizz” App with FastAPI, Azure Form Recognizer, and OpenAI If you’ve ever wanted to combine the power of AI resume analysis with a simple payment flow, you’ll enjoy this little project we’re calling “Resume Rizz.” In this post, I’ll walk you through the high-level components of the app, why I built it, and
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To host a Web App in Azure could be a much more simple and surprisingly cost effective way to make your project public. Recently I made a little AI program that evaluated a bunch of fighter data and returned a predicted winner. https://fightscouter.ai First I Needed To Create an App Service Plan I went with
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Application Gateways are Layer 7 load balancers built for regional solutions. When you create an Azure Application Gateway it will complete it’s load balancing from a specific region unlike Azure Front Door, so it is imperative that this is understood. All applications gateways also need a public IP address. You don’t need to expose the
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Exchange Admin Center is a great tool but it does not always present the full picture of an object. Similarly to what I did with AD commands, I did the same with the ExchangeOnlineManagement module. Below are commands that I found useful. You can find the file on my github here. Or simply copy/paste the
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In Azure when we think of network security we can think of NSG’s (Network Security Groups). These groups are really similar to a firewall. They sit right in front of the VM you want it to and contains a set of security rules for allowing or denying traffic. Below is an NSG and it will
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Recently I have been asked to resolve a bunch of erroneous bounce-backs in Outlook. It has been found that an assistant who was a delegate for a bunch of users calendars had offboarded, yet they were still set as a delegate on the users calendar. When going through the Exchange Admin it is impossible to
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As an Azure administrator or cloud engineer, automating resource deployment through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is essential. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates provide a declarative way to describe your infrastructure. In this post, I’ll go through deploying an ARM template using the Azure CLI, covering how to create a resource group and deploy your infrastructure
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For this example I have a locally redundant storage account in East Us with a container called catpictures and containing, well, cat pictures. To enable Azure Backup for blobs we can go to the storage account and go to the Data Protection blade. In that blade, tick Enable Azure Backup for blobs. If you do
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