Azure Communication Service - Email hygiene

It is a good practice to review your Communication service email logs to remove any email addresses that are being bounced back. Follow the steps in this article to enable logging to Log Analytics - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/analytics/enable-logging. You can then use some of the out of the box queries such as ACSEmailStatusUpdateOperational and ACSEmailStatusUpdateOperational to view the results.

 

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Azure Bastion - How to connect natively from Windows

If you ever used the web based client for Azure Bastion service, you would have realized that you can't really limited on what you can do and is not the same as RDP (mstsc). There is a way to connect natively to Azure Bastion service if you used the Standard SKU. The official documentation is at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/native-client#connect-windows.  The PowerShell script that will come handy is below.

az login
az account set --subscription "<<your subscription id>>"
#Launch RDP
az network bastion rdp --name "<<name of your bastion resource>>" --resource-group "<<resource group name>>" --target-resource-id "/subscriptions/<<subscription id>>/resourceGroups/<<resource group name>>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/<<Virtual machine name>>"

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