Automating Resource Restriction in Azure Subscriptions with Budget Alert, Automation Account, and Azure Policy
How to restrict Azure resource creation through budget alerts using Automation Account runbooks and custom Azure Policy.
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Passionate about building reliable, scalable infrastructure at the University of Chicago. I specialise in AWS, Azure & GCP — and share what I learn along the way: infrastructure automation, PowerShell scripting, and cloud architecture deep-dives.
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Reference guide for deploying Azure Security Center configurations through ARM templates including Defender pricing, auto-provisioning, and continuous exports.
How to Restrict Account Operators to See the Password in LAPS
Modify Active Directory schema to prevent Account Operators from reading LAPS passwords, and reset permissions on existing computer objects.
How to Join a VM to a Domain by PowerShell in Azure
Use Set-AzVMADDomainExtension to join Azure VMs to a domain, replacing the deprecated Set-AzVMExtension approach.
How to Push an Existing Repository from VS Code to Azure DevOps by PowerShell
Step-by-step guide to pushing a local Git repository to Azure DevOps, including the critical step of pre-creating the remote repo.
Use PowerShell to Get Firewall Rules from Remote Computer (Get-FirewallRules)
Custom PowerShell function to remotely query and filter Windows Firewall rules with support for name, protocol, port, and address filtering.