Domain join Azure VMs from ARM template with Key Vault secured credentials – Part 3

Part 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault Part 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details Part 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws In part one I talked about Prerequisites and Key Vault In part two I talked about ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension details In this part we are doing a deployment for domain join, a summary and pointing … Read more

Domain join Azure VMs from ARM template with Key Vault secured credentials – Part 2

3 Part blog series Part 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault Part 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details Part 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws In part one I talked about Prerequisites and Key Vault In this part we are looking at the linked/nested template. Prerequisites for this part, some a repeat from part one. AD Domain … Read more

Domain join Azure VMs from ARM template with Key Vault secured credentials – Part 1

This will be a three part blog series on Automatically domain join Azure VMs from ARM template deployment with Key Vault secured domain join credentials 1: Prerequisites and Key Vault 2: ARM Template and JsonADDomainExtension, details 3: Summary, Thoughts and flaws Prerequisites and Key Vault. When using ARM templates to automate provisioning of VMs you … Read more

PowerShell 1.0 and ARM – Tenants and Subscriptions

In my previous post you got intro to getting started with Power Shell 1.0 and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Also take a look at this post by @s_lapointe In this post I hope to inspire you to continue with it. Authenticate with Multiple Tenants! The Solution is: Login-AzureRmAccount -SubscriptionId “subscription you want to manage” Before … Read more

Getting Started With Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview #ARM

The evolution never stops! I have been doing some Azure Resource Manager related work with building templates and setting up governance with processes and management for a service organization, the challenge in this is seldom the technical solutions J (even though there are room for improvement on the technical side also) So Azure PowerShell 1.0 … Read more