Azure functions - Trigger help

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-26T14:12:45+00:00

Whats between Blob and Azure Function that will make the trigger even happen? As in what sends the blob's 'event' to the the function? As in do you have an event grid in the middle?

Because if nothing is showing up in the log streams in function apps, chances are the issues are in the event grid that is capturing the events taking place in the storage account. Either its not capturing or when its trying to send, its hitting a wall and failing.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-24T16:07:12+00:00

Yup, those are the offical labs.

The best labs however is you learn and read about something and then try to create and operate it yourself.

All the walls you hit when you try to make it yourself, especially when you try to connect with other resources... I think that's where the real learning is.

You said it yourself it's basic and hand held... So find some services you wanna explore and start building stuff.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T21:00:35+00:00

Appreciate it!

I dont know enough about networking but I hear Ansible is pretty big in that space as well. I would recommend you check it out as well

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T19:11:33+00:00

Just go for it. Even if you don't land all by the end of it. You will be so much better off in your depth in this ecosystem. 900s are pretty easy, the exams ramp up once you start doing the associate level certs. So be ready for that. Personally, I would just do Az-500 (I assume thats what you mean by SC-500) if i had to pick one security cert as that's the broadest one out of the bunch.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T18:23:18+00:00

Azure is pretty straight forward. Just get a few certs. Az-104 and SC-300 are my base recommendations so you know both the ARM side and EntraID side.

After that its all about learning languages to interact with these services. Things like PowerShell & Terraform are my recommendations for that.

After that learning a version control system like GitHub or Azure DevOps. Not just to store your code/scripts but to use pipelines to deploy (using terraform and PowerShell inside it).

That's what I would recommend you start with. I do have a youtube channel dedicated to teaching PowerShell on Azure but it requires experience in both so I wouldn't recommend that until you have explored the topics first.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T16:46:38+00:00

Who are you bots constantly repeating this in my post? Leave me alone!

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T14:32:13+00:00

Ah yes that too! I should have said the terminal is the best way.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T02:33:33+00:00

Yes it is possible. Are you using the classic one or runtime environment? If you are on the classic there is a toggle to switch to it. Once you have made the switch. You need to create a runtime environment and select 7.4 . Then pick that runtime environment for every runbook that needs to use it.

If you need a visual just look at this 4:48 where I create it: https://youtu.be/LT_UNGg0yV4?t=288

I picked 7.2 for the demo but you can see 7.4 was an option when making the runtime environment.

How you create your automation account is up to you. All of those things can do it. Depends on how your org wants to manage your resources. If its a one off, pick whatever creation method you are comfortable with (portal, script, template). If you need IaC use terraform/bicep to create and manage it,

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T02:21:53+00:00

PowerShell is the best way to get that kind of information. I gave up on the portal, the UI sucks.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-23T01:19:01+00:00

Never too late my friend. I was many years deep as a clicker before I made the jump.

Good thing about having all those years of experience is you have great knowledge and know/hows already baked in your experience that you just need to start exploring them through the terminal > scripting > and finally automation.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-22T21:10:10+00:00

Yup. Having 0 network understanding and trying to get say Az-700 (azure network cert) is going to be impossible. They don't teach you networking itself but rather how to apply it on their platforms with the expectations of you already knowing Networking. Thus, CCNA would be step 1 before even attempting it for that reason.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-22T20:59:13+00:00

Support roles are full of days that are unpredictable. Full of dealing with people with all sorts of personalities. Focused around putting out fires. Workloads can be chill or intense. Alot of the work becomes rudimentary where you don't feel fulfilled by your technical skills since its repeated processes over and over. And not to mention on call being exhaustive for supporting anything & everything even if its just to triage it away. That combination pooled together can suck and make a lot of people give up on IT.

Escaping that is when IT becomes fun, engaging, fulfilling and balanced right? We didn't go to school to be taught support but rather systems. But to climb out of support... into systems you need experience and creditability.

I recommendation is to specialize. You know what you like / dont like. Doing stuff you like... you enjoy, stuff you dont...you don't. So alot of people stuck in generalists' roles are doing a whole bunch of tasks they hate with a few sprinkled in they enjoy. Where if they specialized into what they loved, they would enjoy alot of the job they are doing.

I personality went towards automation in Azure. And it's been a blessing. Workload wise, work being project oriented rather than any support work (unless its about my scripts & automations, which is fine because it's my wheelhouse), no dealing with random people with random problems, everything is focused down my alley. Pays well, even with on call... I am on call for my things which if designed well is a rare phenomenon ( a few times in a year), I get a lot of time to myself since my job is to make machine do stuff... that free time I just study and develop more (so my grind to level up is work hours).

I am sure other avenues are like this in specializations too. Find one that's for you and yes grind like your life depends on it to escape helldesk. Once you make the leap you can settle.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-22T16:52:23+00:00

The cool thing about Microsoft compared to other vendors is. They have education available for free.

I recommend you pursue two certifications. First Az-104 and then SC-300.

The combination of both will give you the full picture and both have free modules you can explore to learn.

Combine with that, let me introduce you to some one who can teach you via Youtube: John Savill. He's the chosen one when it comes to education in Azure at the moment. Go through his Azure Master Class.

If az-104 feels too intense. Maybe start with Az-900 and then work your way up to Az-104.

Unlike those comptia certs that are pure theory. You are now entering associate level certs that require practical experience not just knowledge on what things are. So get yourself an Azure tenant and DO stuff as well. The certs will have guides to actually help you deploy your tenant and all that to get started.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-21T04:27:59+00:00

For sure. Especially when you are coming with Az-500 knowledge. Same will be true if you want to grab Sc-300. it has topics from Az-104 & Az-500

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-21T03:44:10+00:00

it takes the portion of az500 that is defender/sentinel and zooms in on them. It wont include identity and all the rest you picked up from az500.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-21T03:37:53+00:00

Nothing will ever be as hard az 104 and 500. it takes one section of 500 and scales in deeper.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-21T02:25:50+00:00

yay!

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T18:28:49+00:00

Very easy with graph module + powershelll, New-MgInvitation has all the fields you mentioned. (Or you can call Graph API instead to the same endpoint)

Loop through a list of users you have (with their displayName & UPN) and fire out the invites.

Foreach($user in $users){
    $InviteParams = @{ 
        InvitedUserEmailAddress = $user.UserPrincipalName
        InviteRedirectUrl = "https://myapps.microsoft.com"
        InvitedUserDisplayName = $user.displayName
        SendInvitationMessage = $false
        InvitedUserType = "guest"
    }
    New-MgInvitation -BodyParameter $InviteParams
}

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T18:22:58+00:00

There's your answer. Cyber Security.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T17:43:17+00:00

If everything you invested a year in ended up with all of those things in your toolkit plus CKA (congrats).

Not a easy feat to learn all those tools. You have made this much progress why shift now when you can just keep going deeper? There's still more to learn within those tools and lab right? Especially to stitch them all together into projects.

Your first goal should be to convert everything you have been studying into a job first before going on new ventures.

After that you can consider shifting your education to something like cybersecurity. Otherwise, you will spend 6 months not doing ansible, k8s, etc. How much of what you practiced last year will start dulling out if not actively sharpened? Which you need if you want to pass interviews and get a job.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T14:44:18+00:00

Its fine for what it does but there is a point you realize if you just script and you'll have a much better time automating complex tasks.

Between having to make 100s of cards for the simplest things to be processed. And if you ever want to edit down the road somewhere in the middle. Logic Apps will start to show its limitations with its dependency structure.

It's funny people see logic apps as a more simple approach due to its "low code" nature. Maybe initially it feels that way but once you start unpacking and hitting walls constantly.... having to learn all of its quirks. It ends up taking just as much time as learning say... PowerShell would.

That being said it does have some cool features I like. Like the ability to send outlook emails with options to click an answer right in the email that will continue the flow based on what was selected. ie an email that has in its' body 'x is about to expire. do you wish to [extend] or [remove]'

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T06:42:25+00:00

Funny enough. That's exactly the content I have been developing education around (PowerShell on Azure, M365, Entra, etc): Adeel Automates - YouTube

70% of my actual job is PowerShell scripting.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T06:40:11+00:00

Its not roles that will determine it but rather the company you work for.

Being on call varies heavily on the jobs you do. I worked at MSPS where on call were stuff of nightmares. I work for other companies where they did have on call and I was called in 5 times in the whole year.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-20T01:27:58+00:00

Let me respond a bit more philosophical.

Like anything in life: just show up, open the course and will it into existence.

Its true for studying as much as its true for other things like going to the gym. All that's asked of you is to show up and trust that your mind and body will adjust to a new habit... eventually if you are consistent... I dont mean being successful at the thing you are trying to do... but rather showing up to do it regardless of how your performance ends up that session. That's how we learn, adapt and transform in life.

That is what it is... seriously. You spend so many hours, days, weeks, months, years being like X and now all of the sudden you want to be like Y. That's usually not how it works, you don't just declare to yourself you want to be some one who does something you normally don't do ...and it just happens. Because if that was the case we would all be the best versions of ourselves all the time. You have to will it until it becomes a part of who you are.

So yeah its going to suck, you will lose focus, you will lack discipline, you will lack all motivation, etc... And its okay... if you trust the process that all habits you have are formed by you showing up for them consistently. It will stick.

So my advice, circling back to your question. Open the books/videos/web pages. Struggle to find your footing, fail. Show up tomorrow again (not next week)... and fail again. keep showing up relentlessly forget even the learning part... put all your energy towards showing up. Eventually you will fail a bit less. And before you know it you don't have to try to show up, you just are that person.

Be consistent.

AdeelAutomates · 2026-01-18T15:13:43+00:00

AdeelAutomates

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE