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Anthony Norwood
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All things tech, with a professional focus on Microsoft Azure. Will always opine on Powershell, SQL, or Terraform
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Fresh off the presses, Microsoft have announced that Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) will be retired in September 2028.

2028? You mean 3 years away?

I do! So why should you take notice now?
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Azure Disk Encryption - the countdown has started...
ADE is going the way of the dodo! What are my options, and how do I get there?
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September 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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🛠️ Part 2 of my PowerShell + Word doc series is live!

This one covers:

Creating & styling tables
Populating them with data
Adding & resizing images
Full script included 💻

Check it out 👇
🔗 blog.norwood.cloud/posts/create...

#PowerShell #Automation
How To: Create A Word Document In Powershell - Part 2 - Adding and Manipulating Tables, Adding Images
Table of Contents Opening the Word Document, Writing Some Text, Using Styles Adding and Manipulating Tables, Adding Images Document Properties, Table of Contents, Changing Page Properties Moving aroun...
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June 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Ever needed a quick way to get rid of all those pesky 'Unknown' RBAC assignments in Azure? My third blog dives into this and provides a quick and easy method to identify and remove all of these assignments across a subscription.

Check it out here: blog.norwood.cloud/posts/delete...
Delete Azure RBAC role assignments for Unknown principals
If you’ve been managing Azure and Entra for more than 5 minutes, you’ve probably come across this issue before: Someone has assigned a principal some permission, the principal has then subsequently be...
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June 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Just posted a new blog - this one’s about getting all the properties from Azure Advisor recommendations using PowerShell.

Here it is if you’re curious:
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#Azure #PowerShell #Cloud
How do I get the full Azure Advisor Recommendation from an API?
Recently at work I was writing a script to pull all Azure Advisor recommendations for a set of subscriptions for further analysis and display, and I wanted to make sure that my output included as much...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I've had the urge for a while to start sharing knowledge - and today, I'm excited to say I've launched a blog!

My first post is now live:
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It’s a practical guide for anyone working with paginated APIs in PowerShell. Feedback welcome!

#blog #powershell #azure
Iterating through a paged API response in Powershell
Introduction If you’re anything like me, then sometimes you get the urge to really just scrape over API responses and re-format the returned information in a particular way - my favourite evening acti...
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May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM