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Azure Data Factory – Getting start or end of week dates

October 21, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

In this post I will cover methods to get the start and end for the current, previous and next week using an Azure Data Factory Pipeline expression. I have a few pipelines which only run once a week that need …

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Azure AD – Storing custom user data for Enterprise Applications

December 29, 2022June 18, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

I recently had the requirement to create a new Enterprise Application in my Azure Active Directory tenant. This was to get a third-party SaaS application to work with Single Sign-on for my users. The provider of the SaaS application also …

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Azure Data Factory – Get and Use Key Vault Secrets

October 28, 2022May 31, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

I have occasionally found that I need to use keys, passwords, or other sensitive strings as part of my ADF Pipelines. While it is completely possible to store this data in parameters against the Pipeline, it is not the best …

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Microsoft Graph and Invoke-RestMethod [PowerShell]

June 4, 2022May 29, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

While the PowerShell Microsoft.Graph modules are great, Microsoft Graph is an API opening many different methods for reading and writing data, including via the PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod command. But why use Invoke-RestMethod instead of one of the many Microsoft.Graph module commands? …

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Connect-MgGraph – Using a Service Principal [PowerShell]

October 21, 2022May 23, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

Recently I had the need to write a script to query and set data in Azure AD using PowerShell. I didn’t want to create or use a user account, using hard coded credentials in a script is never a clever …

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Setup WordPress to use Azure CDN

March 1, 2023March 29, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

In this post I will cover how to configure WordPress to benefit from the Azure CDN to improve the speed. My WordPress sites are hosed as Azure App Service sites, however that is not a requirement to use the Azure …

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6 Must Have Conditional Access Polices

February 12, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

Microsoft has done a fantastic job with Azure and Office 365, giving us admins a suite of tools and solutions. However, there is so much in these products it can be a little confusing knowing where to start. One area …

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Azure Data Factory – How to Save Web Activity to Blob Storage

October 21, 2022January 21, 2022 by Geeks Hangout

In this post, I will cover how you can save the output from an Azure Data Factory (ADF) or Azure Synapse Pipeline Web Activity as a Blob file in an Azure Storage Account. You could use the same method to …

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Azure Data Factory – How to Truncate a Table

February 6, 2022November 23, 2021 by Geeks Hangout

I recently started using Azure Data Factory (ADF) to move data between systems. Until recently I have been writing PowerShell scripts, using SSIS job and various other methods to move and transform data. But Azure Data Factory meets my current …

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Azure AD Defaults You Should Change

October 12, 2021 by Geeks Hangout

I have been going through some security reviews with some third party security specialists. As part of that work, they have come back with some standard recommendations of the default Microsoft Azure AD settings that you should review and consider …

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