Enhancing VM Search in Azure with PowerShell

In this walkthrough, we’ll explore various functionalities of PowerShell, including dynamic parameters, parallel execution of script blocks, and index building for efficient searches, among other features. Let’s dive in by understanding the problem at hand. Often, there’s a need to search VMs not only by their names but also by their internal IP addresses or the names of their disks. However, the absence of an out-of-the-box API for this task led me to develop a custom tool. Continue reading

Search Azure Objects

In our environment we have more than one subscription. Even more than five. And this amount grows constantly. What we do with all of this is we support VMs and stuff there. One of the issues is that users usually do not know name of Azure Service which is used to host their VMs, and it so happens that they do not know even their Subscription Name or Subscription ID. To bring up and control their VMs and environments the use some “middleware” which hides all of this info from them. Continue reading