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Deploying vSphere Templates with Packer &amp Azure DevOps

Ever since starting out on my learning journey with Packer and writing my ‘Getting Started’ blog series, I have not stopped learning and developing my templates. I have also learnt a lot from other members of the tech community, such as @mpoore, as well as discovering this repository - vmware-samples. I really wish I had found this sooner than I did, as its a great resource! It was especially useful to me for Linux examples. That said, its been great taking my own learning journey.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 | 14 minutes Read
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Client SMTP Email Submission & Graph API - Azure

I recently began playing with Azure DevOps Pipelines as a way to automate various aspects of my lab. As part of this I wanted to send email notifications that I could customize the content of, which I couldn’t get from the built-in notification capability. Since the PowerShell cmdlet; Send-Mail Message is obsolete, I began investigating alternatives which is when I came across this article and decided to give it ago and share!

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | 6 minutes Read