The Easy Way to Generate Cost Diagrams
Microsoft offers a plethora of options for exporting usage out of Azure. You can then slice and dice the raw data and generate some reports. What happens if I don’t need to do all of that? What if I just like the out-of-the-box report that is presented in the Azure portal? I can either save…
SharePoint UI Migration Bug
I am unsure if this is just a GCC High bug, but if you navigate to your SharePoint online admin portal and click on the migration link on the left side, you get an endless spinning icon. My first thought was to check the dev tools to see if it was some how getting blocked,…
TIL: Conditional Access With Applications That Have Service Dependencies
I was testing a couple of conditional access policies against specific Office 365 cloud applications and came across a weird situation when doing a what-if analysis. Let’s take a simple scenario of blocking access to Exchange Online if the user is is not in our trusted IP list. Doing a what-if analysis, it works as…
PnP PowerShell and Azure functions assembly conflict
If you have worked with SharePoint Online, I am sure you are no stranger to PnP PowerShell module. It sits on top of graph, CSOM and the SharePoint Rest API which brings a lot of enhanced capabilities. Let’s look into an issue and how I solved it when it related to consuming this module in…
Logic Apps – GCC High SharePoint Connector – Maury Povich Edition
If you came across this post because you are trying to use the SharePoint connector with Logic Apps in GCC High…let’s continue below… https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/connector-reference/connector-reference-logicapps-connectors shows that SharePoint is supported in Azure gov, but that turned out to not be true. After spending too much time trying to figure out how to make the SharePoint Connector…
Azure CycleCloud, Slurm and Star-CCM+ v17
I am a huge fan of Azure CycleCloud. It makes administration tasks so much easier. Now, there are some cons of running it in Gov Cloud, such as the core-hours does not work, but that isn’t much of a big deal if you deploy to a subscription and just calculate the costs from that. Let’s…
AVD Scaling
I was doing a POC around AVD in Gcc High and wanted to implement autoscale. Reading Microsoft’s documentation, the new autoscale is not in GCC High. I had to either write my own, use some 3rd party solution or leverage their original logic app/runbook solution. I opted using Microsoft’s original solution, but of course, it…
Missing MSI when using the Microsoft HPC Pack in CycleCloud 8.2
I had a project that required HPC pack, so I went right to CycleCloud to provision my new cluster. When I came to the Secrets and Certificate section, I was going to use a Key Vault to store my certificate and password. After selecting the MSI Identity dropdown, it was empty. I started looking in…
The Mysterious Case of Azure CycleCloud Jetpack Install Error
I’ve been doing a lot of HPC work using Azure CycleCloud. It can quickly deploy an entire HPC cluster in minutes with the benefit of autoscale on the compute node side. I will have a couple of posts about some things that gave me grey hair, but let’s first look at the Jetpack installation error…
Migrating a CentOS Virtual Appliance to Azure
I had an interesting ask to migrate an on premise virtual appliance to Azure. I thought this would be straight forward, but here I am writing why this situation wasn’t, lol. This particular operating system was CentOS 7. The vendor said it is supported to migrate to Azure and I found that Microsoft has documentation…
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