Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure VM

Azure VM Backup Soft Delete Security features


I talked before about How we can implement backup on Azure VM using Recovery services vault and we mentioned that recovery services vault can be used for two purpose backup and site recovery but today we will take in one of the azure security feature Soft Delete but before this point, if you need to know how you can implement backup on VM using recovery services vault check this ➡ article and if you need to know how you can implement the site recovery using azure backup vault check this ➡ article.

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Soft Delete Life Cycle on Azure Recovery Services vault
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Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Storage services

Copy Files to or from Azure Storage using Azcopy


Before starting on How to move files hosted on the azure container using Azcopy command line I highly recommend you to read below articles to know more information about Azure Storage types, features, how to create it, storage replication types, azure storage explorer and How to monitor your azure storage

  • Azure Storage information
  • What is Azcopy
  • Prerequisites
  • Azcopy command details
  • Check File using Azure Storage Explorer

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Azure Storage information

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Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Database, Azure Monitoring

Create Deadlock Alert on Microsoft Azure SQL


Deadlock all of us know the meaning of it and how to manage it on SQL Server on-premises and for how to get alert by it normally we are using Database Mail to generate alert from SQL Server but in Azure, the situation is different because there is no Database Mail in Azure there are services called “Azure Monitor” centralized services for managing all of the alerts on all of the Azure resources and this in of the difference between SQL on Azure and SQL on-premises. From this service we can manage our alerts with defining what is the action we need it (Send Email, Execute Function, Call Services, Send SMS ..etc.), You can access the Monitoring Services from this ➡ link or simply by searching azure portal by (Monitor).

  • Azure Alert Component
  • How to create Deadlocks Alert
  • List by alerts created on Azure
  • Alert Dashboard
  • How to Get the deadlock reports Using Azure Matrices
  • How to check Deadlock using SQL Server Script
  • Other Articles For How to Manage Azure SQL Database

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Azure Alert Component

  • Resource: The Azure Resource you need to apply for this Alert role on It and it can be done on the azure subscription itself like alert on cost and budget of the subscription.
  • Condition: it is the logic of the alert what you need to monitor exactly and when
  • Action Group: the action you need to do it when the alert fire on the condition you configure it
  • Matrices: It is like dashboard and reports you can configure it to get some statistics on time and you can build alert on it
  • ALERT DETAILS: alert name and alert description and severity for this alert from (0) to (4)
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Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Issues

The subscription is not registered to Microsoft.insights resource provider


When I am creating Alert from Azure Monitor services I found below massage restricted me to complete the process of creating alert after few search on Microsoft document I found that I need to register for the Microsoft.insights provider to my subscription and they we can do it from azure portal or using PowerShell.

Creation of alert rules will fail, since the subscription is not registered to Microsoft.insights resource provider

Fix the issue using PowerShell command

Register-AzureRmResourceProvider –ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Insights

Fix the issue from Azure Portal

Under subscription in the left side select Resource provider and search about Microsoft.insights then do register for it easily

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Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, AzurePowerShell

Manage Azure Policy Using PowerShell


Azure Policy is a Microsoft service in Azure used for creating and managing policies , assignments and definition and it is used to force some roles on some resources in case of some actions.

  • Policy definition: is the conditions of the policy
  • Policy assignment: in the part we can define which resource or services you need to apply this policy on it , add in your note that the policy assignment by default inherited so for example if you applied Policy on Subscription it will be inherited on all of the resource under this subscription
  • Policy parameters: it will give you the availability to custom your policy
  • Azure initiative Policy: it the like Azure policy but we can use when you need to do group of policy in one step and it is containing the 3 parts (initiative definition, initiative assignment, initiative parameters) “Policy Combo
Azure Policy

Today we will create Azure policy to enforce any new resource for using tag let’s go to see how we can create this policy using PowerShell Command.

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  • Create Resource Group “IF you need it is not mandatory”
  • Save the Resource Group in PowerShell variable ($resource)
  • Call the Resource Group ID
  • Get the Azure Policy definition of required to assign tag for any new resource will be created
  • Save the Azure policy information into PowerShell variable ($Policy)
  • Create Azure Policy
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