Niels's technology ramblings
This is my first post about AI. I had to start sometime right? This post is about building your own AI Intune Assistant with Microsoft Foundry. It is based on the idea that you won’t need Security Copilot if you learn to use some tools… Let’s dive in! This is what we are configuring: We … Read more
This blogpost is about how to use BICEP to add a new version of your managed image to an AzureComputeGallery. Furthermore, you can do so by using this button in the portal: But we like to automate these actions to save time and remove complexity. Prerequisites We need a managed image as a source. You … Read more
This blog post is about using the AzureDiskEncryption VM Extension for Azure via Bicep. I struggled with this for a while. Furthermore, I couldn’t find much information about this topic. So, I decided to write a blog post about it. The VM Extension is the same as, for example, the domain join VM Extension. I … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 3.1! This is a blog which describes how you can deploy a VM from your newly created Shared Image Gallery Image via Bicep. Prerequisites Part 1, 2 & … Read more
Need to upgrade your Windows 11 Sku’s in your automation like Packer, Azure Image Builder or manual Bicep/ARM Templates? Use these tables below in order to find the correct information for your scripts. I will list the Windows 11 SKU’s for these versions: Windows 11 PRO ZH-CN – Gen2 Windows 11 PRO N – Gen2 … Read more
I have tinkered with this for a bit. So, I thought let’s share it with the world. This blog is about how to deploy azure policy to a managementgroup using the Bicep language. A management group helps you to assign policy’s to multiple azure subscriptions. Furthermore, new subscriptions can easily be added to the existing … Read more
Don’t you hate it when you want to logon to Azure and you need to select a subscription every time? Firstly, you need to logon using: “Connect-AzAccount”. After that, you need to select your subscription but you obviously don’t know your subscription id. You run: “Get-AzSubscription”, copy the subscription id and run: “Set-AzContext”. I have … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 0! On many request I will write about preparing your Azure/Azure DevOps environment. In addition, this will help you start with part 1. These topics will be discussed … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 6! We built the image, but I would like to show you another sessionhost deployment type. The type where YAML and Bicep are used to create the sessionhost. … Read more
In this series I am going to show you how build a Windows 10 Image via Azure Pipelines and DevOps without 3rd party tooling, welcome to part 5! We built the image, deployed a sessionhost in the previous parts. Next up is converting the Image Pipeline to YAML Pipelines. In addition, YAML pipelines hold all … Read more