Hey folks, I wanted to share a small app that I hope all Azure admins and devs might find useful.

Using the power of your keyboard and your memory you can now get to your favourite Microsoft portal or blade in seconds.

cmd.ms is basically a shortlink tool

Try it out. Open a new tab and type {command}.cmd.ms using any of the commands or alias from the list below (see the full list at cmd.ms)

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Background

At some point I got tired of clicking multiple times in the Azure portal to get to a blade. So, I initially put together a list of aka.ms links in GitHub over at aka.ms/commands and there was a lot of interest.

The problem with aka.ms is that most of the memorable short names are already taken and either point to docs or to the product pricing page.

That was when I came up with the idea for cmd.ms

Contributing

The best part is that you can contribute your own commands to this open-source project by simply adding a line at cmd/commands.csv at main · merill/cmd (github.com)

Bonus!

For those who like autocomplete from the address bar you can get the browser extension from cmd.ms/docs/tips

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