Trond Jakob Sjøvang

Earlier this summer Microsoft announced Static Website Hosting for Azure Storage in public preview. An affordable way of hosting websites where you don’t need any server side logic. Instead of paying for, securing and updating my own Virtual Machine I decided to check it out. This of course led me deep down a rabbit hole thinking about resurrection my personal website in some way. Instead of doing this the boring way and just upload some good, old fashioned, HTML I thought why not #RubDevOpsOnIt and use a build pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services and a static site generator to create something cool? …

To change VM Size when your virtual machines are part of an availability set can be a pain in the Azure Portal. Especially if the new size you want is not available on your current cluster and the resources have to be moved as well.

The entire process is a lot easier to do with powershell

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Because “Manager” is an extended attribute in Active Directory you can’t use -Filter {Manager -notlike “*”} like you would with basic attributes

To delete an entire tree structure with objects (typically Organizational Units) with the flag “ProtectedFromAccidentialDeletion” we first need to remove the flag. We can then select the top node and delete the entire tree. Needless to say, you should probably use this with caution. If you don’t want to remove the protection from every OU in the specified SearchBase you need to split up and run the command multiple times with different values for the SearchBase-argument …