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Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has reported failure for VM Extension ‘Monitoring’ with terminal error code ‘1007’

While I was changing diagnostics storage settings in Azure, I started getting error messages for some of my VMs while de-allocating them or powering them up and down. Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has…

Microsoft Azure Advisor Enters Preview

Last month Microsoft released the preview for Azure Advisor in the resource manager portal. The app essentially scans your Azure subscription resources and looks for potential performance/security issues and recommendations. Below is screenshot of the application…