ChatGPT is quite an interesting innovation. AI has endless possibilities. I have been testing ChatGPT for the last several days. Incidentally there is a very well documented API for it and here is a quick tip to use Chat with Powershell. Please note that you will need to create an API key to use it. […]
I recently switched job and was reminded during the induction trainings to use secure passwords and it recommended me of how I generated my passwords securely. With ever increasing threats and hacks, one way to secure your assets is to use secure passwords that is not easy for anyone to guess but at the same […]
In the Azure cloud Log Analytics workspace, Azure sentinel, Azure Monitor, PowerBi and other cloud services provide unique capabilities for logging, monitoring and reporting. In this quick tip I am going to share a Powershell Script that can help send custom data into Log Analytics workspace based on which you can then create Sentinel Analytics […]
I will start this tip with a use case. A cloud ops team member reached out to me seeking help with sending out a report from a script he had that collected Citrix data using REST API. He wanted to embed the capability to send email right into his script that was written in Powershell. […]
Recently, one of my Hyper-V VM’s ran out of disk space on the c drive and I realized that I had the recovery partition right after the main partition and even though I added more disk space to the VM, the available disk space was showing after the recovery partition. I could create a new […]
The following code can help you fetch Azure recommendations from all you subscriptions in your tenancy. I you are a CSP, the customer subscriptions should be visible under your tenancy due to the CSP delegation. If a single account has access to multiple tenancies, without having to use the CSP delegation you can also set […]
Scenario: If you have two IIS servers behind a load balancer you would want one of them to be available in case of a failure. Availability sets and availability zones are a good way to ensure VM’s do not run on the same rack, power supply and storage in a Microsoft Data center. Availability zone […]
You environment may have more than one log analytics workspaces from which you may want to fetch logs in a central view for building PowerBI reports or for any other reasons. Log Analytics Workspace is an extremely powerful tool. If you have looked at some of my other posts you will come across some great […]
One of the important SIEM use case is incident management and Azure Sentinel offers robust features that help the organizations manage the life cycle of security incidents and alerts. Since ServiceNow is one of the most widely used tools in IT and is growing rapidly, organizations need to integrate ServiceNow with Azure for asset discovery, […]
You can not always prevent Public IP addresses on Virtual Machines. Brute force attacks commonly target management ports 22 for SSH and 3389 for RDP as a means to gain access to virtual Machines. Attackers keep scanning Public Ip addresses and open ports to attack vulnerabilities to gain access. If the virtual machine is not […]