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    Checking for Phone plan licenses for Microsoft Teams users

    I had to find if users had a phone system licenses in order to assign them a direct routing number. Phone system Licenses = MCOEV When working with Direct Routing, the user cannot have Calling Plan Licenses installed for the accounts. MCOPSTN2, MCOPSTN1 and MCOPSTN5 If the user has for an example ENTERPRISEPREMIUM This includes phone system so no need…

    Concurrency
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    Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps is missing .python_packages

    I was publishing an Azure Function with Azure DevOps vs. deploying with VS Code and was finding the function was failing because the .python_packages folder was missing. Reviewing the build code the standard python package was populated with “pip install -r requirements.txt”, which was working on my local client to ensure the published environment included the necessary packages.…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Running the Data Migration Assistant – Part Two – PowerShell

    In the previous post, I introduced the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) from Microsoft.  In this post I will introduce PowerShell modules from Microsoft that can be used to run the DMA against an inventory of instances and databases. A .zip file containing the PowerShell modules can be downloaded from this page.  Once the modules are downloaded…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    5 Disciplines of Cloud Governance

    The best organizations are ones that balance growth mindset in the cloud with effective cloud governance. The growth mindset is the company challenging itself, its previous assumptions, it’s understanding of what the future looks like. The partner is governance that accelerates the transformation while ensuring protection and responsibility. The goal of cloud governance is not…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Firewall Settings for Connecting to Azure SQL Databases from an Azure VM

    Recently, I was helping a colleague troubleshoot connectivity issues between an Azure VM and Azure SQL Database.  The client architecture looks like this: The failing connections were coming from the DMZ.  Watching network traffic using Wireshark, we saw an attempt to connect to the Azure SQL Database on port 11029.  A Google search led me…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Decom Lync/Skype after moving to Teams

    This is my working list for decom for older Lync and Skype deployments on prem for organizations that are moving to Microsoft Teams. **more info to be added around trunk removal. Look for disabled accounts that are still registered to Lync 2013 Get-CSuser | Disable-CSuser Get-CsConferenceDirectory | Remove-CsConferenceDirectory Check for Analog devices Get-CsAnalogDevice | Select-Object…

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    Changing Azure Account in Visual Studio Code

    I was using an account in Visual Studio Code to access a certain set of subscriptions I was working against and deploying to. This was prior to getting my pipelines ready, as that was my eventual deployment destination. In the meantime, I needed to change the account and noticed there wasn’t any GUI way to…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Return JSON from Azure Functions with Python

    I was working on an Azure Function for an open source wildlife IoT project and came across a lack of documentation in docs.microsoft.com. I had successfully returned HTTP content from my Azure function, but wasn’t sure how to get it to return JSON so I could interpret it elsewhere. In this case I’m storing latitute (lat)…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    The CMDB Solves Yesterday’s Problems… the Cloud is Different

    I spent many years building CMDBs for companies. The promise was that if we could just get the configuration information into a centralized database we’d be able to better plan, build, and run IT by understanding the landscape of applications and how they work. We had a relatively slow moving technology picture, with the complexity…

    Nathan Lasnoski