Automate Exchange Online with Azure Automation in 2023

I’ll try to keep it short: If you want to manage Exchange Online via Azure Automation, Managed Identities is what you should use (as of early 2023). Legacy approach In the past, RunAs Accounts or Plaintext Credentials (🤢) were also commonly used for this purpose, but this is now considered deprecated. RunAs accounts will be discontinued by fall 2023. And I don’t have to say anything about plaintext passwords, do I?...

2023-01-09 · 2 min · Andreas Dieckmann

Deploy an Azure NAT-Gateway for Azure Virtual Desktop by PowerShell

I created a PowerShell script to automatically deploy an Azure NAT-Gateway into an Azure Virtual Desktop environment. That’s useful, if you to need one static IP-Address for your AVD machines. I created the script as a submission for the Nerdio Hackathon 2021. My first Hackathon attendance :^). Update 2021-10-05 - I actually won first place, but apparently not many people participated in the contest. The Nerdio team are a bit disappointed, so they didn’t publish any announcements....

2021-06-27 · 1 min · Andreas Dieckmann