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Nicolas Prigent
Nicolas Prigent
IT Production Manager. Nicolas is primarily focused on Microsoft technologies, he is a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management.
Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • October 19, 2021

How to Backup Virtual Appliance with Azure Backup?

Virtual Appliance is a broad concept. It could include Firewall, Scanner, Network VM, and a lot of other virtualized instances. Primarily, to back that up, you need snapshots, and backing up a Virtual Appliance in Azure wasn’t quite user-friendly before. Now, however, you can perform all the necessary actions smoothly, in a matter of a few clicks.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • August 26, 2021

How to display notifications on Windows 10 using PowerShell?

Notifications can be incredibly useful for displaying vital information on your machine or on a remote user workstation, for example. You can create and display your desired notifications using PowerShell and a custom GitHub module for it — BurntToast. To enjoy this technique though, you’d have to use Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • August 12, 2021

How to integrate Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse

Azure, just as any other industry flagship, spends a lot of time working on upgrading its current features and developing new ones. Privileged Identity Management feature (PIM) that enables you with more efficient resource management and control is one of the most recent releases.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • July 29, 2021

How to use Azure Sentinel for Incident Response?

Azure Sentinel is growing in popularity when it comes to Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR). Not only does it inform you when an incident becomes true, but it also functions as a response system to address it. The software exists to significantly reduce Mean-Time-to-Response, tightening your security even more.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • June 8, 2021

How to Build a Desktop Flow with Power Automate Desktop?

Automation in daily IT has become a standardized necessity rather than an advantage. Power Automate Desktop builds on the inherent robotic process automation of Power Automate. The solution allows you to automate all of your repetitive desktop processes. But the best thing is that the application is now free for all Windows 10 users!
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • May 13, 2021

Windows Sandbox Overview

Windows Sandbox is an application that creates a Windows instance fully separated from the host. It creates an isolated and secure environment where you can run files and applications without affecting the host — great for testing purposes. Once you close the sandbox, everything there is permanently deleted.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • January 5, 2021

How to Use Azure REST API with PowerShell

Getting comprehensive information on each and every virtual machine (VM) is a pain. To make things easier, Microsoft introduced Azure Resource Graph. You can now use a simple PowerShell script and receive contextual VM data at scale across your given set of subscriptions. No need to surf through every single one separately anymore.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • December 17, 2020

Using PowerShell Tasks and Parameters in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Azure DevOps is a very powerful product that encompasses the whole application lifecycle, including DevOps capabilities. Release Pipelines is one of the features that helps automate the testing and delivery of desired applications to end-users on multiple stages. But to use it properly, you should know how to couple it with PowerShell Tasks.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • December 3, 2020

Ensure Infrastructure Compliancy At-Scale with Azure Policies

Keeping up with priorities, subscriptions, resource groups, and other policies in a hyper-converged environment can be quite challenging. Azure Policy helps receive an aggregated view of your environment via a compliance dashboard. It simplifies enforcing standards and allows you to effortlessly and minutely address any issue.
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