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Study guide for Azure Solutions Architect

Hello there, cloud enthusiasts!

If you’ve landed on this page, it’s likely that you’re preparing for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam. This exam is the latest version designed to validate your knowledge and skills needed to design solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects such as compute, network, storage, and security. Today, I’m excited to share my insights and the study guide that helped me successfully pass the AZ-305 exam recently.

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Study guide for Azure Networking Solutions

Hey guys! Today I come here to share with you my journey to achieve Azure Networking Solutions certification. To get the title of Azure Networking Engineer, you need to pass the AZ-700 exam.

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Microsoft’s AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions certification exam is designed for IT professionals who want to prove their skills in designing and implementing networking solutions in Azure. Passing this exam requires a comprehensive understanding of Azure networking services, network security, and hybrid connectivity.

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Get-MgUser: Get and Export Azure AD users properties with Graph Modules

Hello everyone,

Recently Microsoft started adding/changing ways to extract user information from Azure AD (The Microsoft plan is to replace the AzureAD PS Module). One of the new ways (Not so new) is through the Microsoft Graph, which can be used through the Graph API or through the Graph Modules. In this article I will demonstrate how to install the graph module and also how to perform some queries using the existing cmdlets in one of the Microsoft Graph Modules.

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Removing Azure Locks from Resource Group using PowerShell

Today’s post is quick and simple folks. In today’s article I will show you how to remove Azure Locks from a Resource Group.

First let’s declare the Resource group variable:
$Resource = “RG_GETPRACTICAL”

After the declared variable we can execute the command “Get-AzResourceLock” using a pipe “|” so we can refer to the Resource Group same as the variable above.

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Azure Function TimerTrigger1 failed due to timeout exception

Hello guys,

Today I’d like to share one of the issues that I had in Azure of one of the company customers I work for.

The customer has a script that turns VMs ON/OFF based on the time stated on the VM’s tag. For example, a VM has a tag “StartTime: 06:00” and “StopTime: 23:00”, this Azure Function runs every 1 hour and compares the current time with the time stated on the VM’s tag, if the time matches, the VM will be turned ON/OFF.

Everything was working very well, but when the customer decided to increase the number of tagged VMs, the Azure Function started returning with the timeout error. We initially thought it was the “Consumption plan”, which by default has a timeout of 5 minutes. We changed the plan, which allowed unlimited timeout (1 hour recommended by MS). And yet the function continues to give the timeout error.

We decided to split the VMs with a trigger for each subscription (The initial Azure function varies all subscriptions by looking for the tag and comparing the time), it didn’t work either.

We raised a ticket with MS, it took several days of troubleshoot and nothing to find the root cause of the problem. Until I decided to look deeper into the function code and realized that every time the function was executed and the script turned ON/OFF a VM, the function had a significant pause in between turning ON/OFF VMs.

So I decided to add to the code -NoWait and guess what? It worked!! The timeout stopped happening and the function started to be executed in less than 2 minutes, even with several VMs being tagged.

Initial code: Start-AzVM -Name $vm.Name -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName

Final code: Start-AzVM -Name $vm.Name -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName –NoWait

Ps. I don’t want to share the whole code, as I took it from the customer environment.

Apparently the function worker was waiting for a return from the previous command (Stop or Start the tagged VM), but in some cases the return wasn’t happening and the function was getting stuck.

In the moment I added the command to ignore the return (-NoWait) the function started working perfectly again.

That’s all for today guys, see you later!

Joao Costa