Cracking AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment

This is not one of the exams where you can memorize stuffs and clear the certification. Azure new role based certifications does justice by testing your real skills. You are thrown with lot of scenarios based questions.

Also......Surprise! Surprise!.... this exam has labs. You are given CRUD tasks for Azure resources.

So if you think just reading the book can get you through this then think again. You need to have hands on experience working on Azure.

Browse to Microsoft site to know about the skills measured.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-az-100.aspx

Enterprise Logic App ARM Template Deployment through PS

We had a requirement for automating integration platform deployment for my customer. The integration layer mainly consists of Logic Apps and azure resources.

The challenge was the number of environments we had. So we came up with the solution structure for different integrations as below. And then utilized our below automation script to deploy these logic apps through PowerShell.

Cracking AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

I wanted to refresh this year with Azure skillsets. So started with fundamentals.

This exam covers some general knowledge about Microsoft Azure. It targets basic understanding of
- Cloud concepts
- Core Azure services
- Security,- Privacy
- Compliance and trust
- Azure Pricing and support.

The best starting point would be below Microsoft learning training. But i highly recommend to have some hands on play on the azure portal and try out different services.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/

Determining the SID for User Account

Determining the SID for a Local User Account

Here’s a simple script that returns the SID for a local user named mozaid:

Determining the SID for an Active Directory User Account

You can use the exact same approach to determine an Active Directory SID as you do for local user SID; the only thing is to include both the domain (fabrikam) and the user name (mozaid):

ARM Template to create sample PaaS Solution

{
"$schema": "http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"serverFarmName": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"defaultValue": "testlab"
},
"serverFarmSKU": {
"type": "string",
"allowedValues": [
"Free",
"Shared",
"Basic",
"Standard"
],
"defaultValue": "Free"
},

ARM Template to Build vNet and Storage Account

{
"$schema": "http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",

"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",

"parameters": {

"storagetemplateType": {

"type": "string",

"defaultValue": "Standard_LRS",

"allowedValues": [

"Standard_LRS",

"Standard_ZRS",

"Standard_GRS",

"Standard_RAGRS",

"Premium_LRS"

]

The Application Virtualization Client could not complete the operation. A device attached to the system is not functioning.

Issue:-

In my environment I sequence the application on App-V 4.6 SP1 and then deploy the application msi on Citrix XenApp Servers.

I sequenced the application successfully but when I was installing the same on Citrix XenApp Servers it gave the below error message.

 “The Application Virtualization Client could not complete the operation.

A device attached to the system is not functioning. “

Then I checked the Event Viewer on the XenApp Server which gave below details:-