The Azure Retail Prices API does not give correct prices for SPOT VM’s (which can change at any time).
As I use SPOT VM’s a lot to scan largers tenants with M365Permissions to avoid throttling and get results FAST, I needed a reliable way to get the lowest priced F-series VM to temporarily finish a scan queue before getting discarded again.
I created an initial function using the ‘hidden’ retail billing API which calls the ‘https://s2.billing.ext.azure.com/api/Billing/Subscription/GetSpecsCosts?SpotPricing=true’ endpoint.
My post on Linked then got some advice Morten which I now finally got around into creating a function for, using an official instead of ‘hidden’ API!
This resulted in the Get-VmSpotPrices function, which I’m sharing for free through Github:
Today’s release has a ‘special guest’; Morten (blog)! He completely rewrote the entra user and group retrieval code, greatly improving both performance and total capacity!
Other changes of note:
Add support for Onenote Notebook sharing permissions
Treat anonymous sharing links as ‘deleted’ if the sharing level at the site forbids anonymous sharing
Are you also curious about all those PowerApps and Flows in your environment? Orphaned ones maybe? Or when someone leaves the company?
1.2.2 adds scanning of PowerApps and Flows! Only when using SPN auth. (setup instructions)
In addition to that, I’ve also added provisional support for scans of tenants in USGOV, USDOD and China. Since I don’t have a test tenant there, I’ll have to rely on you to test how it performs there.
Yes, we finally have Microsoft Azure! All active and eligible permissions are in scope from the subscription level and below.
If you use a service principal for scanning, be sure to assign read permissions for it to all subscriptions (or lower level resource groups) you want it to index.
1.1.6 brings all separate catagories we scan in line by making the report columns the same (=Common Data Mode). This makes comparing and pivoting a LOT easier 🙂
Also, added Partner Permissions and Entra Devices (including Cloud PC’s).
