https://gotoguy.blog/tags/azure/Azure - Tag - GoToGuy BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 01 Sep 2026 22:54:00 +0200https://gotoguy.blog/2026/09/01/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-gotoguy-blog/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:54:00 +0200Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2026/09/01/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-gotoguy-blog/Welcome to the new home of GoToGuy Blog! For many years this blog lived on WordPress. It gave me a place to share technical articles, scripts, conference experiences, and lessons learned from working with Microsoft cloud, identity, security, automation, and management technologies. WordPress served the blog well, but over time I wanted a platform that was simpler to maintain, easier to automate, and better aligned with the tools I use in my daily work.https://gotoguy.blog/2024/04/05/automatic-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-of-copilot-for-security-capacity-unit/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:40:59 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2024/04/05/automatic-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-of-copilot-for-security-capacity-unit/At time of writing this blog post, it’s only the first week after Microsoft Copilot for Security went GA April 1st, and already the #Security #Community are creating scripts, automations and tools for provisioning or deprovisioning Secure Capacity Units (SCU) that are required for running Copilot for Security in your environment. A potential cost of 4$ per hour per SCU can amount to $2920 per month if you count 730 hours standard per month, so the motivation is clear, to save cost and use the service only when you need to.https://gotoguy.blog/2021/04/27/speaking-at-the-cloud-lunch-learn-marathon-2021/Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:10:45 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2021/04/27/speaking-at-the-cloud-lunch-learn-marathon-2021/I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at the Cloud Lunch & Learn Marathon 2021, a Global and Online Community event that will run for 24 hours between May 13th and 14th, with Speakers and Community experts from all over the world. Sessions will cover a range of Cloud topics, including AI, Cloud Native, Blockchain, IoT, Data & BigData, Security, DevOps, GitHub, Backend, Frontend, Power Platform and, more.https://gotoguy.blog/2020/12/03/blog-series-powering-up-your-home-office-lights-part-2-prepare-azure-key-vault-for-storing-your-api-secrets/Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:05:17 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2020/12/03/blog-series-powering-up-your-home-office-lights-part-2-prepare-azure-key-vault-for-storing-your-api-secrets/This blog post is part of the Blog Series: Power’ing up your Home Office Lights with Power Platform. See introduction post for links to the other articles in the series: [https://gotoguy.blog/2020/12/02/blog-series—powering-up-your-home-office-lights-using-power-platform—introduction/ ](https://gotoguy.blog/2020/12/02/blog-series---powering-up-your-home-office-lights-using-power-platform---introduction/ ) Continuing on Part 1, where we created an App Registration for Hue Remote API, I will need a secure place to store the App credentials like Client ID and Secret. I will also need to store the Access Token and Refresh Token, so that I can retrieve it when I need to call the Hue Remote API, and use the Refresh Token to renew the Access Token when it expires.https://gotoguy.blog/2018/01/17/shutdown-and-deallocate-an-azure-vm-using-managed-service-identity-and-instance-metadata-service/Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:16:20 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2018/01/17/shutdown-and-deallocate-an-azure-vm-using-managed-service-identity-and-instance-metadata-service/The purpose of this blog post is to show how you can run a PowerShell script on an Azure VM that will shutdown and deallocate the actual VM the script is run on. First, kudos to Marcel Meurer (Azure MVP), that originated the idea of how to run a PowerShell script that will shut down and deallocate the VM from inside itself, this is a good read: https://www.sepago.de/blog/2018/01/16/deallocate-an-azure-vm-from-itself . Marcels blog learnt me of something I havent used before, Azure Instance Metadata Service, where I can get information on my current VM instance.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/11/23/speaking-at-nic-2017/Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:16:30 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/11/23/speaking-at-nic-2017/I’m very happy that I have been selected as a speaker again for next years NIC 2017! I will have at least one session to present, and hoping for a second session but the organizers have a lot of interesting session proposals to choose from so we’ll see. My session will be about Enterprise Applications and Publishing in the new Azure AD Management Experience: image In this session we will look into the new management experience of Azure AD Applications in the new Azure Portal.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/08/31/experts-and-community-unite-at-last-ever-scu-europe-2016-expertslive-next/Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:36:18 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/08/31/experts-and-community-unite-at-last-ever-scu-europe-2016-expertslive-next/https://gotoguy.blog/2016/07/22/speaking-at-system-center-universe-europe-2016-berlin/Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:35:01 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/07/22/speaking-at-system-center-universe-europe-2016-berlin/I’m really excited that I will have two sessions at this years SCU Europe in Berlin, August 24th – 26th. System Center Universe Europe is a really great community conference that focuses on Cloud, Datacenter and Modern Workplace Management, covering technologies like Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Hyper-V. Read more about SCU Europe here: http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch/about-scu-europe.html I have been visiting all SCU Europe Conferences since the inaugural start in Bern 2013.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/05/03/trigger-azure-ad-connect-sync-scheduler-with-azure-automation/Tue, 03 May 2016 18:14:52 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/05/03/trigger-azure-ad-connect-sync-scheduler-with-azure-automation/In this blog post I will show how you can trigger the Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler with an Azure Automation Runbook PowerShell Script. Since the Azure AD Connect build 1.1.105.0 was released February 2016, a new scheduler is built-in that per default sync every 30 minutes (previously 3 hours). For more detail on Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsync-feature-scheduler/ . Normally a sync schedule of 30 minutes is sufficient for most use, but sometimes you will need to do an immediate sync.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/03/04/displaying-azure-automation-runbook-stats-in-oms-via-performance-collection-and-operations-manager/Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:39:16 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/03/04/displaying-azure-automation-runbook-stats-in-oms-via-performance-collection-and-operations-manager/Wouldn’t it be great to get some more information about your Azure Automation Runbooks in the Operations Management Suite Portal? That’s a rhetorical question, of course the answer will be yes! While Azure Automation is a part of the suite of components in OMS, today you only get the following information from the Azure Automation blade: The blade shows the number of runbooks and jobs from the one Automation Account you have configured.