Owendavies.net.

How to Create an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

Step-by-step guide to creating Azure VMs using PowerShell automation with code examples, detailed explanations, and best practices for consistent deployments.

Create an Azure Virtual Machine with the Azure CLI

Learn how to create and configure an Azure VM using Azure CLI with step-by-step commands for resource groups, networking, security, and VM deployment.

Create an Azure VM with Bicep: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn to deploy an Azure VM using Bicep, Microsoft's DSL for ARM templates, with this step-by-step guide.

Migrate Terraform State with AzCopy in Azure Containers

Step-by-step guide to securely migrate Terraform state between Azure Blob Storage containers using PowerShell and AzCopy, with troubleshooting tips.

Change tmux command prefix

Storing DevOps documentation in git

Learn how to store DevOps documentation in git, integrating with Azure DevOps for version control, CAB approval, and automated document updates.

How to install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu Linux

Complete guide to installing Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu with Python virtual environments, PDF export capabilities, and desktop integration for XFCE environments.

Install a desktop environment GUI on Ubuntu Server in Azure

Disable Entity Framework Core Migrations

Learn how to disable Entity Framework Core Migrations by deleting the Migrations folder and the __EFMigrationsHistory table in your database.

Super lightweight bookmarks manager - dmenu bookmarks with bm

Create a lightweight, text-based bookmark manager using dmenu and bm on Linux that syncs across devices with cloud storage and works with any browser.

Create, attach and mount a managed disk to an Azure Linux Virtual Machine

Learn how to create, attach, and mount a managed disk to an Azure Linux Virtual Machine using ARM templates and SSH commands.

Chocolatey - Package Management for Windows

Fixing ARM Template Deployment Validation Errors

Azure ARM template error - The template deployment GUID is not valid according to the validation procedure. See inner errors for details.

Create an Azure VM with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to deploy an Azure Virtual Machine using Terraform, covering infrastructure as code best practices, networking, security, and automation.

Terraform - setting up domain DNS with cloudflare

Learn how to set up domain DNS with Cloudflare using Terraform, including importing existing DNS settings and creating new records.

Using Docker for local SQL Server development

Learn how to set up SQL Server in Docker for local development with persistent data storage using volume mounts and docker-compose for streamlined database workflows.

Resize Azure Windows OS disk script

Learn how to resize an Azure Windows VM OS disk using PowerShell with this step-by-step script that safely stops, updates, and restarts your virtual machine.

Returning Azure Active Directory groups as claims

Learn how to return Azure Active Directory groups as claims by modifying the application manifest and accessing group IDs in code.

Getting started with Terraform

Step-by-step guide to installing and using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on Windows and Debian, with Docker integration examples.

PHP MSSQL error code 0x2746 - SQLSTATE[08001]

Replacing SSMTP with MSMTP in Docker

Connecting to Azure Database for MySql from php PDO

Learn how to securely connect PHP applications to Azure Database for MySQL using SSL certificates with PDO, including troubleshooting common verification issues.

Add IP Address to Azure Network Security Group

Get latest Azure API Version in ARM templates

Add PowerShell DSC extension to an existing Azure Virtual Machine

Create Azure AKS Cluster with Windows Server Containers Preview

Remove a custom domain from Office 365 - Azure Active Directory

Can't move Team Services (VSTS) between Resource Groups in Azure

Understand the limitations and error messages when attempting to move Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts between resource groups in Azure.

This tenant does not allow email verified users to be added due to an admin-defined policy

Resolve the issue of adding email verified users to an Azure tenant by changing company settings with the Azure Active Directory Module and PowerShell.

Azure Smalldisk Windows images

Microsoft.Compute/disks BadRequest diskDescription.properties.accountType.

Troubleshoot the Microsoft.Compute/disks BadRequest error related to the accountType property with a workaround using an older API version.

Delete Resource Groups with no resources

Use a PowerShell script to delete Azure Resource Groups with no resources, saving time and keeping your environment clean.

Extensionless url with jekyll on azure webapp

Learn how to configure extensionless URLs for a Jekyll site hosted on Azure Webapp using a custom web.config file with URL rewrite rules.

Building an Azure Virtual Machine with DSC and specifying a different WMF Version

Testing the speed of different WMF versions when building an Azure VM with DSC to find the fastest configuration.

How to Purge Azure CDN with PowerShell

Learn how to purge Azure CDN endpoints using PowerShell with step-by-step commands for listing profiles, endpoints, and executing the purge operation.

AZCopy - The server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required

Resolving the 'Proxy Authentication Required' error in AZCopy by creating a config file with default proxy settings.

Azure ARM DSC extension LCM settings rebootnodeifneeded not working

Generate SAS token to access Azure Storage

Learn how to generate a SAS token to access Azure Storage, including steps for creating a resource group, storage account, and uploading files.

How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with ARM Template

Learn how to create and deploy an Azure Virtual Machine using ARM Templates with step-by-step instructions for resource group, storage, network, and VM setup.

Azure ARM Template Error: Gateway size Default is not supported for gateways of type dedicatedcircuit

Fixing the 'Gateway size Default is not supported for gateways of type dedicatedcircuit' error in Azure ARM templates by using the correct Gateway Type.

Free Azure Book

Find Azure Virtual Machine dynamic IP Address and RDP into it

Use PowerShell to find the dynamic IP address of an Azure VM and RDP into it without accessing the Azure portal.

Login to Azure with PowerShell non-interactively

Learn how to login to Azure with PowerShell non-interactively using service principals and certificates for automation.

Puppetlabs State of DevOps Report 2016

Controlling Azure Virtual Machines from PowerShell

Learn how to automate Azure VM management with PowerShell commands to start, stop, and query your virtual machines efficiently without using the Azure portal.

How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with the IIS Rewrite Module

Learn how to use the IIS Rewrite Module to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS, ensuring secure connections for your website.

Puppetlabs State of DevOps Report 2015

Highlights from the Puppetlabs State of DevOps Report 2015, including key findings on IT performance and continuous delivery practices.

Setting up web endpoint monitoring in Azure

Learn how to set up web endpoint monitoring in Azure to ensure your website's availability and performance.

Tidying up TFS workspaces on the server

Learn how to view and delete TFS workspaces on the server to keep your environment clean and organized.

Automapper 3.2.1 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties

Azure Storage Import Export Service Tutorial run through on Channel 9

Azure physical hard drive import

Learn about the Windows Azure Import/Export Service for transferring large amounts of data to and from Blob Storage using physical hard drives.

Windows Azure SQL Reporting being discontinued

Azure: Persistent virtual machines and hosting Linux in Azure

Filewatcher in global.asax

Using FileSystemWatcher in Global.asax to monitor file changes and reload routes in an ASP.NET application.

Azure: Crossdomain.xml inside root of blob storage

Azure: Multiple sites per web role

Azure SDK 1.5 Error Solved – DevFC.exe stopped working

Fixing the 'DevFC.exe stopped working' error in Azure SDK 1.5 by resolving port conflicts with HTC Sync.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Maximum number of retry attempts reached : 3

Resolving the Maximum number of retry attempts reached 3 error when using Amazon S3 with the .NET SDK by specifying the correct endpoint.

Azure SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Azure: Inbound bandwidth now FREE!

Azure: Timeouts between compute and blob storage

Solving timeouts between Azure compute instances and blob storage by ensuring they are in the same data center.

Windows Azure SDK 1.4 released

The Azure team has released version 1.4 of the Windows Azure SDK, integrating with the web deployment tool for easier application updates.

Azure for MSDN subscribers

Discover the free benefits for MSDN subscribers with Azure, including 750 hours of compute, 25GB bandwidth, and more.

Unlimited Load testing with visual studio Ultimate MSDN subscribers

MSDN Subscribers with Visual Studio Ultimate can now perform unlimited load testing, removing the 250 user cap and simplifying the process.

.NET Core save secrets in secrets.json file locally or Azure Key Vault when deployed

Add Identity to .NET Core 3.1 WebAPI

An introduction to Azure Functions

ASP.NET Core MVC Upload image to azure storage

ASP.NET MVC Core nested layouts with scripts section

Asyncronous remote work

Azure DevOps - Test & Feedback browser extension

Azure Lab Services

Azure static site jekyll blog devops ci/cd

Changing Ubuntu Screen Resolution in a Hyper-V VM

Connect to Azure VM with PowerShell

Convert PFX SSL certificate to base64 in PowerShell and PowerShell Core

Create nuget feed in Azure DevOps

Create Python Virtual Environment

Create unattended Windows 10 installation

Debian static ip address

dmenu bookmarks with bm

Docker WSL2 integration

Download Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 ISO

Importing Cloudflare resources into terrafrom with go

Install all the Microsoft Linux things

Install Hortonworks on docker WSL2

Intro to Ansible

Learning Python

Load REST API in Power BI

Microsoft Teams ChatOps bot for running Azure commands

Nant error: [exec] svn: Error resolving case of '>'

PowerShell on Linux

PowerShell test ports between computers

Setting up Gulp in Visual Studio 2019

Setting up pass and dmenu passmenu script

Terraform - Azure detecting drift terraform

Terraform Azure

Typescript

Using Docker for Azure DevOps

Using docker for powershell core and azure cli

Using terraform to deploy Azure CAF landing zones

vim dotnet autocomplete omnisharp

Windows 10 PowerToys