Copy an Azure Table Using AzTables Powershell Module and Powershell 7

nbeam published 1 month ago in Azure, Cloud Services, Microsoft, Powershell. Tags: , , , , , ,

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A few months back I started using Azure Tables as a quick, cheap, and simple database for a project at work. I was recently re-factoring my main Powershell script which spits data out into an Azure Table for later PowerBI reporting. Thankfully, even though it was close to midnight, my years of “ops management brain” kicked in before I pushed the “go” button on my refactored script. Thankfully it dawned on me I should be testing my updated script on a copy of my table vs. the only copy of the data I had.

Being late and me being tired, it didn’t occur to me to just try Azure Storage Explorer, which allows you to easily copy a table from one storage account to another. Instead, I turned to Powershell. (more…)

Audit Your Blobs Using Azure Powershell

nbeam published 7 months ago in Azure, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Information Security, Microsoft, Network Security, Powershell, Storage. Tags: , , ,

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Halloween is over but the the world is still a scary place. In a continuation of a thought from an article I wrote a few weeks back for Auditing AzureSQL Firewall Policies, I thought I would also include a short function for auditing azure storage accounts that are currently configured for “public” access.
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Getting Up and Running with Powershell 7

nbeam published 8 months ago in Development, Fun, Microsoft, Powershell, Windows 10. Tags: , , ,

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I recently overhauled a script that I wrote to take advantage of the parallel processing functionality that is included in Microsoft Powershell 7. The results have been excellent with script runtimes being reduced from over an hour down to roughly 5 minutes. Learning the ins-and-outs of using parallel processing was a bit of a chore that I will discuss in a later article, however the first hurdle that had to be mounted was simply getting Powershell 7 installed and figuring out how to make use of it. Quickly getting up and running with Powershell 7 is what this article seeks to address. (more…)

Azure Powershell Function for Auditing AzureSQL Firewall Policies

nbeam published 9 months ago in Azure, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Development, Firewalls, Information Security, Microsoft, Network Security, Networking, Powershell. Tags: , , ,

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I periodically review Azure PaaS resource edge security. As a part of that process I examine and cleanup AzureSQL firewall rules. Once you have more than a handful of subscriptions and AzureSQL databases, doing this manually starts becoming unfeasible. To that end, Azure Powershell is your friend…

As is typical, you need to install the Powershell AZ module on your workstation, after that you need to run.

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Connect-AzAccount

Then supply your Azure credentials (preferably creds that have the ability to view and manage all of your AzureSQL databases and firewall rules, otherwise the rest is moot.
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