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Before diving into how to manage append blobs using PowerShell, let’s have a quick look at the blob types (block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs) available on Azure storage accounts. Storage accounts on Azure support three types of blobs, each of which is used for a different purpose. Therefore, it’s important to determine the type of blob you need when you create it, as it is not possible to change the type once the blob is created. The supported blob types are as follows.

In this post, we will be looking at purging options to permanently delete a Key Vault and fully erase all the secrets, keys, and certificates in it. Sometimes destroying data properly is as important as keeping it secure. We all know that there are some cases in which the data is actually not deleted completely, even if we think it is. Key Vaults in Azure are a good example of this.

A great number of users are created and deleted every day in large organizations. Sometimes, some of these users are deleted by mistake, and they need to be restored immediately. However, it’s not possible to restore hundreds of users manually. Instead, there are two options: use the Bulk Restore feature on Azure Portal, or create a custom PowerShell script to restore the required user objects. In this post, we will look at these options to restore deleted users in bulk in Azure Active Directory.

Just like everything else in Azure, monitoring solutions on virtual machines are also evolving very quickly to support more features in easier ways. There are already different types of monitoring agents that are being used to monitor Azure VMs or VM scale sets, depending on the purpose or the operating system. On top of these agents, there is now a new unified monitoring agent called the Azure Monitor agent (AMA), which is designed to flexibly monitor Azure VMs or scale sets, allowing us to send the logs to multiple locations where needed.

Azure Virtual Network Manager (VNM) is a new network service with management capabilities that was recently announced at Microsoft Ignite. VNM allows us to manage multiple virtual networks and implement well-known network topologies, such as hub-and-spoke or mesh, in target subscriptions without having to configure the network resources individually. It also enables us to manage virtual networks using logical network groups and to apply security or connectivity configurations to these groups. In this post, we will focus on connectivity configurations on the Azure Virtual Network Manager.

In this post, we will be looking at managing and maintaining management groups and controlling them along with their subscriptions on Azure using PowerShell.

Azure Application Gateway (AG) is a kind of load balancer that operates at OSI layer 7, which allows us to manage traffic to our web applications. AGs have a lot of useful capabilities, including but not limited to redirection, session affinity, custom error pages, URL-based routing, and web application firewall (WAF). With newer SKUs, such as WAF v2, we can get even more features. One of these features is custom WAF policy support, which allows us to associate a standalone custom policy with a specific Application Gateway listener. In this post, we will look at the WAF v2 tier of the Azure Application Gateway and how we can integrate a custom WAF policy with it.

Azure Data Share is a secure and easy-to-manage data sharing service on Azure. When it comes to sharing data with others, there are many different solutions out there, such as third-party solutions, FTP, or even e-mail. If it is organizational data, then some other issues must be considered, such as security, monitoring, and management. Also, there are some use cases where organizations need to share and maintain their large-scale data with other organizations in a secure and manageable way.