If you are using PowerShell scripts to automate tasks in your environment, sooner or later, there’s a good chance that you will need to deal with elevating privileges to access resources that require a different set of credentials than those being used to run the script. For example, you might need to access a file...
Last Update: Apr 04, 2022
Microsoft has announced that the automated key rotation feature in Azure Key Vault is available in public preview. The service was originally announced back in March, and it allows IT admins to set up an auto-rotation policy that rotates their customer-managed key (CMK) stored in Azure Key Vault after a specified period. “Automated key rotation…
July is here and we are halfway through the year. Am I the only one that feels like 2021 is zipping by? I have been working non-stop for the last 6 months preparing for and migrating legacy workloads from a data center to Microsoft Azure and I have barely had time to look up from…
Microsoft’s Build conference was on last week and it gave us lots of AI, Machine Learning, and every other type of “machines doe it better” cloud tech announcements. But there were also a few infrastructure announcements during the month. I’ve become the “Azure networking” person at my job, so it’s no surprise (to me) that…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spotted lots of tiny little changes in the Azure Portal. And my feeds have lit up over the last few hours. There must be a big Microsoft conference happening right around now? Yup, Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) is here and that means there will be lots of cool…
October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).
Taking a look at the developer preview of a new PowerShell module from Microsoft that aims to make storing and securely accessing secrets easier in your PowerShell scripts.
Russell Smith gives us the low-down on how to use Azure Key Vault to improve security in the cloud.