Linux Archives - Thomas Maurer

How to Move Files with PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:48:00 +0000

PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can help you automate various tasks on your Windows and Linux system. One of the common tasks that you may need to perform is moving files from one location to another. In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell to move files with different …

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Use the Azure Arc Managed Identity with Azure PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:11:48 +0000

In this blog post we are going to have a look at how you can use the Azure Arc provided Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) managed identity (MSI) to authenticate in Azure PowerShell on your on-premises Linux and Windows Server machines. The moment you want to run some automation directly on your servers, you often …

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Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Servers Survey 2022

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:18:04 +0000

We want to learn from you about hybrid server management, so the team build a Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled servers survey 2022. Give us your thoughts on hybrid server management with Azure Arc! Take the survey at https://aka.ms/ArcServersSurveyLI for a chance to win a $300 virtual gift card! This survey asks about your experience with trying, using, and/or …

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Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning Azure Arc-enabled servers metadata tags with Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:02:25 +0000

I am happy to let you know that I was able to join as a guest on Lior Kamrat video series called Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning. In this Azure Arc Jumpstart Lightning video, I am talking about multicloud server management and how you can store metadata information in Azure Tags from AWS and GCP virtual …

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Azure Arc enabled Server – Store GCP instance metadata as Azure tag

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:02:12 +0000

Last week I published a blog on how you can store AWS VM Instance metadata as tags for Azure Arc enabled servers, this week I want to share with you how you can do this with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) VM Instances. If you want to onboard a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Engine VM …

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Azure Automanage for Arc enabled servers

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:32:00 +0000

At the last Azure Hybrid and Multicloud digital event, Microsoft not just announced the general availability of Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc, but also announced the public preview of Azure Automanage for Azure Arc enabled servers. Azure Automanage is a service that eliminates the need to discover, know how to onboard, and how to configure …

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Manage updates of servers using Microsoft Azure Arc

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 05:31:00 +0000

The Azure Update Management solution is part of Azure Automation. And with Azure Update Management you can manage operating system updates for your Windows and Linux computers in Azure, and with Azure Arc enabled servers you can also use the same Update Management solution in on-premises environments or in other cloud providers. That is right, …

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The Azure Arc Connected Machine Agent (Azcmagent)

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:56:55 +0000

Azure Arc enabled servers allows you to add on-premises servers or servers running on another cloud provider. The onboarding is done by installing the Azure connected machine agent or also called Azure Arc agent on the server. The Azure Arc agent can be installed on Windows Server or Linux. After the agent is installed you …

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Getting started and Learn PowerShell on Microsoft Learn!

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:28:19 +0000

I remember running my first commands and building my first automation using Windows PowerShell back in 2006. Since then, PowerShell became one of my daily tools to build, deploy, manage IT environments. With the release of PowerShell version 6 and now PowerShell 7, PowerShell became cross-platform. This means you can now use it on even more systems like Linux and …

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Stop typing PowerShell credentials in demos using PowerShell SecretManagement

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:39:32 +0000

We all sometimes create presentations with some PowerShell demos. And often, we need to use credentials to log in to systems for example PowerShell when delivering these presentations. This can lead that we don’t use very strong passwords because we don’t want to type them during a presentation, you see the problem? So, here is …

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