October 2018 – Azure Field Notes Blog

Capturing and using API queries from Azure in PowerShell with Fiddler

16 Oct

This is a walkthrough for using Fiddler to capture traffic to Azure from a browser and writing and running that query in PowerShell. I wrote this because I don’t like posts that skip over a key step and explain the entire thing...
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Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 2 – Enforcement)

14 Oct

The Real Problem This post is following on from part 1 about resource tagging on resource groups where we setup azure policies to look for the existence of resource tags on resource groups. While this is helpful to understand the scale...
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Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 1 – Auditing)

12 Oct

Our most popular blog post was about resource tagging best practices. I thought I would follow up that post with some real-world application of tagging best practices in our own environment with the explicit purpose of tracking down Azure spend and getting...
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Migrate your project from Jira to Azure DevOps

1 Oct

My team recently had the need to migrate two of our project boards from Jira to Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS). There was a whole lot of suggestions when I googled with bing, but not a whole lot of sample code...
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