How to: Copy data from a Cosmos DB to another via PowerShell

A while back I had a case with a customer where they had a web app running in production without an up-to-date testing environment. A scenario that, unfortunately, is more common than we’d like to admit. We agreed that before I started working on the desired updates for the application I would first update the … More How to: Copy data from a Cosmos DB to another via PowerShell

How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys

Historically, authenticating against Microsoft’s Cosmos DB service has only been possible in one of two ways: Either by using keys – long passwords that grant you either full read or read-write access to all data in the Cosmos DB account – or by building a custom user management solution that generates short-lived tokens to specific … More How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys

Ignite 2021 – My top three things to look out for

This year we had the pleasure of enjoying Microsoft Ignite’s plethora of release already in March, only six months after the previous event in September 2020. For me the best part of these Microsoft conferences is always getting my hands on the book of news and going through it, looking for new upcoming things that … More Ignite 2021 – My top three things to look out for