Intro Building on my last article on integrating Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams, I want to show you how to incorporate dashboards and kanban boards. The integrations can be helpful when co-workers might not be inside Azure DevOps every day but are using Teams. Some of the integration can also provide co-workers/users the ability to create bug reports without having them inside your Azure DevOps environment. This article will add two dashboards and one kanban board into a Microsoft Teams channel.

Intro I want to show how to add Azure DevOps into Microsoft Teams in this post. I will show how to add the App to Teams and integrate it with the DevOps pipeline. The integration will display any pipeline actions, and it will also post any approval action into teams. With this integration, you can delegate activities in DevOps to coworkers who are not comfortable with Azure DevOps but are very pleased with Teams.

Intro I want to create the Azure resources needed to build Azure Functions in this post. I will guide you through the necessary bicep files to deploy a Storage Account, Application Insights, App Service Plan, and the Azure Function. You will deploy everything with code by the end of this post, including a demo function. All code can be found on GitHub . Workflow As shown below, the workflow is:

Intro I have previously written a post on how to use Azure Key Vault with GitHub Actions, and this time I want to show you have to use Key Vault with Bicep deployments in Azure. The reason behind using Key Vault is to avoid having any passwords or secrets stored in templates. Using Key Vault, I can reference a secret that the deployment will look up at deployment time and not display in any log files.

Intro In this blog post, I want to show you how to maintain route tables and network security group (NSG) configurations in Azure using Azure DevOps and pipelines. I have already written a post on the NSG part, but I have updated a few things since then, so I want to show that in this post. You can find all the files in this post in their full length on my GitHub .

Intro In this post, I will guide you through creating an Azure Virtual Network Manager preview (VNM) and describe what the service can do for you. The service is still in preview when writing this post, so please do not deploy any of this into your production environment. VNM will enable central management of connectivity and security policies across regions and subscriptions. What this actually means will be shown in the guide below, but it does bring something new to the table.

Intro In this post, I want to show you how you can easily set up Azure DevOps to control your Azure Function Apps (AF). Out of the box, AF supports editing in the portal or using VS Code / Visual Studio for both editing and updating. While both methods are fine, I prefer to use Azure DevOps for AF instead, enabling source control. Want to know how I do this? Read on, and I will show you.

Intro In this blog post, I want to show you how easy it is to create a custom image in Azure and use it inside your Windows 365 machines. The process is simple, and hopefully, this guide will help you get started with the basics. And after that, you can start automating all the steps if you want to. Setup I first need to create a new virtual machine in Azure with the Windows 10/11 operating system.

Intro In this post, I want to guide you through the initial setup of Windows 365 (W365) from Microsoft. W365 is also known as Cloud PC and is the new desktop in the Cloud that Microsoft delivers. There are two flavors of W365, a business and an enterprise edition. The business edition will be a standard alone machine with no network connectivity to your on-premises or Azure network. In contrast, the enterprise edition will have a network card inside your Azure subscription so that you have the option of connecting it to internal resources.

As you may know, I am a bit fan of automation and source control, and the reason for this is that these tools help me provide a stable IT environment for customers and internal use. The confidence that doing an installation or update and that the deployment is executed exactly as I did the last time is something I appreciate. Using automation doesn’t mean there are no mistakes, but I only have to fix it one time instead of remembering or doing a document each time explaining the change.