In many organisations, there is a need to map Azure Files shares to Windows virtual machines without deploying a traditional file server or a fully-fledged Entra Domain Services (Azure AD Domain Services) environment. One efficient and secure method is to use the system-assigned managed identity on your Azure VM. This approach eliminates the need to store credentials on the VM and ensures that access to your storage account is governed through Azure RBAC roles rather than static credentials. This guide will walk you through: This solution is especially useful for scenarios like FSLogix profile containers utilising Cloud Cache. By setting…
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Assign Microsoft Graph permissions to Azure Managed Identity
I have a user assigned managed managed identity in Azure called ‘TestMI‘. I want to give this managed identity permissions to run Microsoft Graph PowerShell cmdlets. As a managed identity in Azure, this appears under enterprise applications in Entra. Normally with the old service principals, as these appeared under app registrations, you’d simply go into the Azure portal and navigate to API permissions, where you can assign the necessary Microsoft Graph permissions. But, managed identities in Azure are slightly different and fall under enterprise applications. As such, we don’t have the option in the Azure portal to assign API permissions…
Automatic MP3 tagging
A requirement for my business was to capture information for every song I had. The information required was the Composer (the person/s that wrote the song), the Year and the Record Label. I have over 13,000 songs and doing this on a manual basis would be an administration nightmare. So I used my PowerShell skills and set out to achieve what I found was a very reliable manual process, but turned into an automatic process. The most reliable process that I can find to date is: To grab the Record Label information from iTunes and a site http://staff.australian-charts.com/ to be used as…
Marc Kean 
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