When you reinstall your admin workstation or setup a fresh workstation, there are always a couple of PowerShell modules and tools must be installed install directly. These modules save a lot of time and make managing Azure and Microsoft 365 environments much easier but you always have to remember them correctly to actually install them.
In this post I will show you how to deploy ARM templates directly from a public URL, how to create a Deploy to Azure button, and why converting Bicep to ARM JSON is the easy part.
In this guide, I show the path from installation to deployment: I install the needed Bicep software, I prepare my Azure login using Azure CLI, and then I run a single server Bicep setup so you can see the process end-to-end.
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Cost management is very important when leveraging cloud services. Unexpected costs of cloud services can really disallow us from using any more services, and knowing from week to week what happens can help us with this. To partly address this issue for Azure Consumption costs, I have made a Logic App that sends us the actual consumption on weekly level. This because Logic Apps gives us much more customization options as the default built-in "Subscribe" feature.
Sometimes you just want to trigger an Entra Connect sync quickly, without opening an RDP session to the Entra Connect server itself. For that reason I made a small PowerShell script that runs the sync remotely from a management server. It keeps the action simple: connect to the Entra Connect server, start a delta sync, show the result, and catch errors if something goes wrong.