The accelerated networking provides consistent ultra low network latency via Azure’s in-house programmable hardware and technologies such like SR-IOV. By using Azure’s software defined networking stack, packets are offloaded from the VM CPU’s to the FPGA-based Smart NICs, thereby leading to compute cycles being reclaimed by end user applications running on the VM, putting less […]
Power BI is a great tool from Microsoft which makes it easy to create reports and send them out on scheduled intervals. The ability to pick log analytics data and build reports from them is what we are going to explore today in this blog article. Prerequisites Step 1: Verify you have some logs captured […]
Azure Bastion is a great product and I have been using it for a while now. It is easy to deploy and manage. During a recent discussion with a Cloud Architect “Guacamole” was mentioned to me as an alternative to Bastion. I thought of trying it in Azure. Before I could find the steps and […]
Azure Log Analytics is a great tool. Building queries with Kusto and using them for Alerts, Dashboards and other automation is pretty easy especially with its advanced capabilities. There are several great features which are not very commonly known, one of them being the ability to access logs from external sources and run Kusto queries. […]
Netsh is a very powerful windows command. You can use the simple Netsh command given below to list all the Wifi profiles on your system Another Netsh command shown below can be then used to dump the password for one of the profile. To list and dump password information for all Wifi profiles on your […]
This article isn’t going to mention anything new. May people may already know Azure runs on a Microsoft Hypervisor. Even on a standalone Hyper-V server the VM’s hold information about the host the virtual machine is running on. The registry key is: You can run the following command to check the information using powershell. The […]
Windows has a built in too named “Windows System Assessment Tool” or Winsat which is not known to many. This can help you run a quick test to check performance of cpu, memory, disk etc. This quick tip does not explore all options available for this tool but gives a few quick options. To check […]
Often during automation we run into scenarios where we have a large IP range and we would want to automate the subnetting of this large IP range into smaller subnets and then filter the ranges that are already in use. In most cases I have seen calculations being done manually and hard coding these ranges […]
Here is a quick Powershell tip to get a list of role assignments on all resources across multiple subscriptions and tenants. The single script exports role assignments into a CSV file that can be later filtered with Microsoft Excel. Checking permissions on resources through portal may be a time consuming process hence this script can […]
How fast can I really connect to my Azure resources spread across different regions? How can I test download and upload speeds for my resources in the Azure cloud? How do I find the region of an Azure resource based on its IP address? Questions like these often come to mind while working with Azure […]