With the move to PaaS services, we often become reliant on portals for the administration interface to administer them once deployed. I recently had a request to scale down an Azure SQL Managed Instance from Business Critical to General Purpose tier.… keep reading
Microsoft Graph Permission Scope IDs
Registering Microsoft Graph applications using the Azure Portal and assigning API Permissions is trivial. When you are automating that process though rather than choosing API permissions using the Azure Portal Application Registration UI, you need to know the Microsoft Graph Permission Scope IDs.… keep reading
Getting started with Azure Cloud Shell
A few weeks back I noticed that I now had the option for the Azure Cloud Shell in the Azure Portal.
What is Azure Cloud Shell?
Essentially rather than having the Azure CLI installed on your local workstation, you can now initiate it from the Portal and you have automatically assigned (initiated as part of the setup) 5Gbytes of storage associated with it.… keep reading