Microsoft have announced that on October 1st, 2023 Azure Automation Run-as accounts will be retired and no longer work. This means that all Azure automation scripts using Run-as accounts for authentication will stop working on this date. During recent testing I’ve recently noticed that all new Azure Automation accounts created after April 1st, 2023 can…
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Azure Disk Encryption Key Copy using Azure Automation
In Azure, all virtual machine disks are encrypted at rest. This means that the VM disk files are on an encrypted physical disk in the Azure data centre. This won’t prevent a disk being downloaded as a VHD using Azure Storage Explorer however, as the disk will become unencrypted when downloaded. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-use-storage-explorer-managed-disks To add…