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Michał Machniak (MCT)

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MCT/MCSA/MCSE, Microsoft Specialist ... Admin from begin of life :) … long live Admins ! I love automation #PowerShell #Azure #M365 #sysOps #PanMichal #MCT #AzOps #DevOps

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AzureResourcesNameGenerator 1.0.2 PowerShell module generates Azure resource names based on a predefined naming convention schema and resource-specific rules.It ensures that the generated names comply with Azure naming restrictions an...

Just published my first PowerShell module! 🎉
👉 AzureResourcesNameGenerator: powershellgallery.com/packages/Azu...

It generates Azure resource names based on predefined conventions and ensures compliance with Azure naming rules & best practices.
#PowerShell #Azure #DevOps #AzOps

13.11.2025 07:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Delegate for Azure ARC least-privilege access for hybrid servers - Custom role This blog post explains why organizations using Azure Arc–enabled servers should implement least-privilege access through custom roles. It walks through real-world scenarios where built-in Azure roles...

🔐 Managing hybrid servers with #AzureArc?
Stop giving full Contributor rights!
Check out this custom Azure Arc VM Operator role perfect for least-privilege access 👇
mmachniak.net/2025/09/22/A...

#Azure #HybridCloud #IAM #Security #AzOps #Microsoft #Arc #AzureArc #Windows

10.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚀 New in #Azure: Machine Configuration now supports custom security baselines for server OS settings!
✅ Customize #Windows/#Linux OS baselines
✅ Enforce via Azure Policy
✅ Monitor + auto-remediate drift
Big step for compliance & governance automation. 💪
#CloudSecurity

02.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚀 Master Azure Networking !
Learn how to build scalable, secure cloud infrastructure with hub-and-spoke design, solid IP planning, & key Azure security controls.
mmachniak.net/2025/10/20/M...

#Azure #CloudNetworking #AzureArchitecture #CloudSecurity #MicrosoftAzure #AzOps

20.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub - mimachniak/bicep-ext-PassWordGenerator Contribute to mimachniak/bicep-ext-PassWordGenerator development by creating an account on GitHub.

🌟 Excited to share a new open-source project!
I’ve just published bicep-ext-PassWordGenerator a small extension for Azure Bicep. here 👉 github.com/mimachniak/b...
#Azure #Bicep #InfrastructureAsCode #OpenSource #Cloud #AzOps #DevOps #IaaC #Microsoft #community #csharp #extension

11.09.2025 21:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security - Azure DevOps Blog Learn how to configure dependency scanning, offered in GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps.

Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security

devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/autom...

#Azure #DevOps #Secuirty #Microsoft #GitHub

14.08.2025 06:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Using the Microsoft Azure Bicep Graph Extension to Create Security Groups and Assign Roles in an Azure Landing Zone In large, multi-subscription environments, such as Azure Landing Zones, managing identity and access at scale is a constant challenge. Security groups are a key component of Azure RBAC (Role-Based Acc...

🚀 Hi my new blog post include code example of bicep creation of security and roles assignment in Azure Landing Zone
🚀 Create Entra ID security groups
🛡️ Assign Azure roles directly to groups
👉 Link to blog mmachniak.net/2025/08/11/B...
#AzOps #IaaC #Bicep #Azure #EntraID #Secuirty #Microsoft #DevOps

11.08.2025 08:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bicep Microsoft Entra (Graph) Extension - GA The Microsoft Entra (Graph) Bicep Extension allows you to provision and manage Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) resources using Bicep, extending Infrastructure as Code beyond Azure resources int...

🚀 Bicep Microsoft Entra (Graph) Extension is GA!
You can now deploy & manage Entra (Azure AD) resources natively in Bicep.
See my blog for details + example:
🔗 mmachniak.net/2025/08/01/B...

#Azure #Bicep #MicrosoftEntra #IaC #CloudAutomation #AzOps #PowerShell #Microsoft

01.08.2025 05:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Loging into a Linux Server Connected to Azure Arc Using Entra ID from portal and OpenSSH client Azure Arc extends the power of Azure to your on-premises and multi-cloud environments. One great feature it enables is logging into Linux servers using Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). This provides cent...

Loging into a Linux Server Connected to Azure Arc Using Entra ID from the Portal & OpenSSH client
🔹 Azure Arc-connected Linux servers
🔹 Entra ID auth
🔹 Secure access via Portal & SSH
Read 👉 mmachniak.net/2025/07/30/A...
#AzureArc #Linux #EntraID #Azure #Security #AzOps #Microsoft

30.07.2025 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 Azure Service Health Built-In Policy (Preview) – Now Available! | Microsoft Community Hub Resiliency is a key focus for Microsoft in making sure our customers experience minimal impact due to planned or unexpected outages that may occur. Up until...

🚨 #Azure Service Health Built-In Policy (Preview) – Now Available! | #Microsoft Community Hub #AzOps #Monitoring #AZL

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurego...

28.07.2025 21:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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sysopslife-scripts/M365/M365-EntraID-Apps_and_properties.ps1 at master · mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts Contribute to mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just dropped a new #PowerShell script to audit Microsoft Entra ID apps! 🚀

#AzureAD #MicrosoftGraph #IAM #CloudSecurity #AzOps

github.com/mimachniak/s...

24.07.2025 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Azure Resource Manager allow to overview all resources and create k-ql query

#Microsoft #Azure #AzOps #kql #monitoring #logs

22.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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sysopslife-scripts/ADO/ADO-Inactive-User-report.ps1 at master · mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts Contribute to mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

🚀 #PowerShell script to automate #Azure #DevOps user cleanup:
✅ Email inactive & never-logged-in users
📊 Console & email reports
📁 Logs to Table Storage
🗑️ Auto-remove
#Microsoft #AzOps #Cloud
github.com/mimachniak/s...

16.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 STAGED ROLLOUT OF CLOUD AUTHENTICATION 🎉

This feature allows you to test cloud authentication and migrate gradually from federated authentication to other. #Azure #M365 #AzOps #EntraID #Secuirty #Microsoft #Idenity

01.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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😮 By default, #Azure blocks outbound traffic on port 25 (SMTP) for new #VM
⁉️ PowerShell (Test-NetConnection), you will failed without any information
⁉️ Azure Network Watcher, your test may show error but in details all will be green ✅ in the Connection Troubleshoot tool
#Security #Microsoft #AzOps

27.06.2025 05:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bookable time is available in #outlook in GA , wow, team members can come to the Bookings page and book time for a 1:1 meeting without any back-and-forth conversation #Microsoft #M365 #meeting

26.04.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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sysopslife-scripts/Azure/Azure-Cost-Export-API-v5.ps1 at master · mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts Contribute to mimachniak/sysopslife-scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

🔧 Just released a handy #PowerShell script for generating #Azure #cost reports with aggregation!
It pulls cost data from Azure and lets you group and export it to #Excel
💡 Aggregations supported:
Subscription, RG, ResourceType, #Tags
⁉️It support: CSP
#Microsoft #AzOps
github.com/mimachniak/s...

10.04.2025 06:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Multi Workspace for Single tenant is now in Public Preview in Microsoft’s unified SecOps platform | Microsoft Community Hub We are excited to continue to expand the use cases addressed with our unified SecOps platform, which brings the capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel, Defender...

Enhanced Security through Unified Multi Workspaces of Microsoft #Sentinel, #Defender XDR, #Security #Copilot, Threat Intelligence #Microsoft #SecOps

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

10.04.2025 06:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise - Azure DevOps Blog Many customers want to use both GitHub and Azure DevOps together. Until now, unless you purchased Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise, you had to pay separately for both products. With ...

💰 #Azure #DevOps Basic usage included with #GitHub Enterprise

Finally price get lower, now we need AzureDevOps basic to allow use Github !!

devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure...

#AzOps #Microsoft #Azure #cost

11.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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👑Export to #bicep using #Azure Portal is live !!!

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

We can now export from portal to bicep code existing resources !!!

#Microsoft #Azure #AzOps #DevOps #IaaC #automation

06.03.2025 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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⚙️ AzureDay Poland 2025 ! Już się zbliża !!!

📅 Kiedy? 13 marca 2025
📍 Gdzie? Warszawa, Airport Hotel Okęcie

🗺️Link: azureday.pl

💰Promo code: AzureDay2025Speaker

#AzureDayPoland #MicrosoftAzure #Implementation #CloudSolutions #AzureDayPoland #AzureDay2025 #AzOps #Microsoft

03.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enhancing #Azure #DevOps Traceability: Tracking Pipeline-Driven Resource Changes ad tags to you deployment to get better traceability between pipeline executions and modifications

#Microsoft #security #AzOps #MCTbuzz #automation #AzureDevOps

github.com/jvargh/azure...

12.02.2025 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Configure security baselines for Windows Server 2025 Learn how to deploy security baselines using OSConfig to enforce granular security settings to better protect and harden your Windows Server 2025 environment.

Did you know that #Windows 2025 have built in OS security configuration base on #Microsoft Security baseline

#Ops #Security #AzOps

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

12.02.2025 07:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 Great News !!! 🎉
#PowerShell DSC v.3.0 is now on release cadidate
#Microsoft #Azure #AzOps #DevOps #dsc #cloud #atomation

github.com/PowerShell/D...

09.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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#Azure Advisor Workbooks have new work books to help gether and review information specialy one will be very helpfull
👉 Services Retirement - This workbook displays #Azure services that are being phased out, allowing you to mitigate affected resources
#Microsoft #AzOps #Cloud

08.02.2025 06:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Azure Landing Zones - Policy Refresh Q2 FY25 | Microsoft Community Hub As before, we release updates to Azure Landing Zones policies (and the portal accelerator) on a quarterly basis to reduce the burden of managing change...

How to build you #Azure Landing Zone using Azure landing zone accelerator #AzOps #Microsoft #DevOps #automation #cloud

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurego...

06.02.2025 07:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🧐 Now we can build Dashboard in #Azure using #KQL like workbooks #Microsoft #cloud #AzOps #DevOps #Security

06.02.2025 07:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft Entra PowerShell module now generally available | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module, a new scenario-focused PowerShell module designed...

#Microsoft #Entra #PowerShell module now generally available , a new scenario-focused PowerShell module designed to streamline management and automation for Microsoft #Entra

#Automation #AzOps #DevOps #EntraID #M365

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

31.01.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing the Microsoft Graph Export-Import APIs for Exchange in public preview - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog Export-Import APIs are a set of Microsoft Graph APIs that empower applications to discover, export and import contents from Exchange Online mailboxes in full fidelity.

#Microsoft Graph Export-Import APIs for #Exchange in public preview

#M365 #Microsoft365 #cloud

devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365...

31.01.2025 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
[#534] Przypadki użycia Azure DNS - zabezpiecz swoje połączenie z chmurą - Michał Machniak
YouTube video by SysOps / DevOps Polska [#534] Przypadki użycia Azure DNS - zabezpiecz swoje połączenie z chmurą - Michał Machniak

👉 You can watch my session about #Azure DNS services, that will allow you to secure connection between you on-prem services and #cloud #network #security #AzOps #dns #Microsoft

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0cu...

05.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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