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Using PowerShell and Azure Cognitive Services to convert text to speech

tom torggler 11 jan 2020

In one of our recent Microsoft Teams projects I needed some voice prompts for a customer service call queue.

Send Check Point Logs to Azure Sentinel (beta)

tom torggler 15 jul 2019

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s new, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) tool. In my simplistic point-of-view it is a security-focused, machine-learning-driven add-on for Log Analytics (OMS). Today we will be looking into ingesting Check Point Firewall logs into Log Analytics.

Create a SAS token for AzCopy

tom torggler 17 jun 2019

I’ve spent way too much time trying to figure this out, so here goes a quick note that hopefully saves someone a minute.

Powershell Script to enable specific Office 365 Service

daniel nitz 5 feb 2019 updated 5 feb 2019

Currently I’m in an Exchange Migration project to migrate all mailboxes from Exchange onPremise to Exchange Online. Yeah.. of course.. killing Exchange onPrem… again :)

Azure AD Connect: Failed to load configuration information

tom torggler 22 feb 2018

When upgrading Azure AD Connect (ADSync), the wizard fails with the error: “Failed to load configuration information from primary ADFS server”.

Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner

daniel nitz 15 mar 2017

Today I was super excited about the first tests with the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner. Sometimes calculating the Bandwidth, Storage, local infrastructure needed for Site Recovery can be very tricky. Therefore, I’m happy that Microsoft released a helpful tool to get the right information needed.

Get started with Azure ARM Templates

daniel nitz 20 feb 2017

To start with the deployment using Azure ARM Templates is quite easy. A first step can be to deploy an Azure SQL Database. But let’s start with a bit of background information:

Disable Azure Backup Protection for a VM with Azure PowerShell

daniel nitz 15 feb 2017

My Azure credits burn faster than expected :) So I decided to remove some VM’s and Backup that I used for a customer’s demonstration. Since I don’t use the Azure Portal for configuration anymore, I fired up Powershell and did the Job. With the following commands, I show you how to stop the Backup for a Virtual Machine and delete the associated Recovery Points.