I recently had to write some code to provide a one time link functionality, where links will be invalidated and the underlying files will be deleted as soon as they are accessed once. This brought me to the idea, we will take a look at today. I basically wanted to create a REST API for a link shortener service.

I’ve been waiting a long time for this and its finally here - PowerShell Support for Azure Functions v2 is generally available and ready for production! On the 4th of November at Ignite 2019, the general availability has been announced. This alone is a big step for automating tasks in Azure, but there is more, the Product Group also announced the general availability of the Premium Plan for Azure Functions! With this, Azure Function Apps can seamlessly be integrated within your VNet.

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) offering for modern SecOps. Now with the announced General Availability of Azure Sentinel, we will take a look and the current features, what changed from the preview and where there is still room for improvement.

In Azure, Microsoft already offers a variety of cognitive services such as Voice and Face Recognition for language, face, emotion, age and more recognitions. With the Cognitive Service Form Recognizer, Microsoft has extended it’s portfolio and offers the possibility to accelerate existing business processes through automation.

Sometimes multiple external IP address on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) are needed for a deployed application or script. We will setup a multi NIC VM with one public IP per interface and route some traffic through different interfaces.

When you plan on using Azure-Firewall in your Network-Infrastructure, you have to keep some things in mind - especially when it comes to Routing. In this article, I go over a specific scenario that involves a Hub-Spoke VNet architecture, a VPN or Express Route, a Network Virtual Appliance, User Defined Routes and last but not least, the Azure Firewall.

PowerShell can manage NuGet packages since a few years now, but loading a dll, which is part of a installed NuGet package in PowerShell is not that intuitive.

Learn how to redirect custom domain traffic for HTTP and HTTPS (with free valid certificate) to another domain with Azure Functions.

Whats not to love about PowerShell in Azure Functions? 🙂
In this part, I will give you an overview on how I write my functions and I also added some more compute functions.

Azure CDN is a great service to add functionality to your website. In this post we will setup a Azure CDN resource, add a custom domain, activate free SSL and take a look at the CDN rules engine.