If you want to deploy any alert rules to multiple Azure Local Stacks, it is very time consuming because you would have to create the same alert rules for each Azure Local Stack. But using Infrastructure as Code, it is possible to overcome this. This guide is not a complete deployment of all recommended alert …
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Author:Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen
AADSTS1000030 – User authentication fails in Outlook mobile
Message: AADSTS1000030 – (Pii), Domain: MSALCode: -42004Description: MSAL domain error I came across this error on a users iPhone. The user had recently changed password on its Microsoft account and the error came on this device shortly after. I validated the Entra ID configuration first. The tenant was running the free version of Entra ID …
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Azure Local – MOC update prechecks failed
Error in portal and Powershell doing pre-check health of solution update (after pre-check doing prepare had already executed without further errors): Title : MOC Update Precheck TestStatus : FAILURESeverity : CRITICALDescription : MOC update prechecks failed, failed test count: 1Remediation : Please check MOC update precheck failure details, fix those errors, and re-run Update Readiness. …
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Azure Local – Troubleshoot missing log collection
If you come across an Azure Local stack where you do not see anything in the Insights overview, it can be because of multiple things. Microsoft source article for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/azure-local/manage/monitor-hci-single?tabs=22h2-and-later#troubleshoot-clusters-registered-before-november-2023 Then you go to Monitoring > Insights on your Azure Local instance in Azure: And see that it is configured but not showing anything: …
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Azure Devops – Managed Branch Policies – Default Branch
When working with large Azure DevOps projects containing many repositories, setting up consistent branch policies across all default branches can be a challenge—especially when targeting dynamically named default branches (like main, master, etc.). The Problem Azure DevOps branch policies are typically set per branch (e.g., refs/heads/main), which means hardcoding values that may not be consistent across repositories. The …
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Windows Admin Center – Bulk enable on servers via PowerShell
Windows Admin Center is a great tool for managing Windows Servers from the Azure Portal. But how to enable this great tool on many servers at the same time. I have written a small script that does the job. The script will enable WAC on all servers in the resource group defined on script execution …
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Azure Virtual Machine – migrate from Azure Disk Encryption
ImportantAzure Disk Encryption for Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets will be retired on September 15, 2028. New customers should use encryption at host for all new VMs. Existing customers should plan to migrate current ADE-enabled VMs to encryption at host before the retirement date to avoid service disruption — see Migrate from Azure Disk Encryption to encryption …
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Azure Local – Enable Remote Desktop (RDP)
It is recommended to keep RDP disabled, but sometimes we need RDP access (e.g. troubleshooting around failed updates that require manual install of patches or modules). Here is how to enable RDP via PowerShell Remoting from another device in the same domain (Requires access from the source server to the target server on the network): …
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EasyEntra: Review
Disclaimer This review is not in any way sponsored by EasyEntra or any other company. This review is written 100% free of charge, and should not be seen as a commercial, only as a tech blogger given an honest review about a product available to use. Intro What is EasyEntra?EasyEntra is a tool for managing …
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Azure Local – MOC ARB update failed doing solution upgrade
I got this from Microsoft Premium Support. I was working on a Azure Local stack that would not update the MOC ARB to latest version doing the solution update. We ended up skipping the update from the solution update so the rest of the solution update would pass and then work on the MOC ARB …
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