I was working on an unrelated issue and all of a sudden I started getting some strange errors in IIS. Something like the errors shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Figure 1 was rendered when I opened the IIS management console and attempted to expand the server name to see the websites on the […]
Read More →
I have begun my pursuit of the Internet of Things (IoT) via the .NET Micro Framework and a FEZ Spider. I am currently using the following SDKs: .NET MF 4.3 RTM (QFE1) .NET Gadgeteer NETMF and Gadgeteer Package 2014 R3 When I was trying to make a connection to my Azure Blob Storage, I was […]
Read More →
If you have an active Azure Web App and you experience problems or want to do some checks on what might the problem, there is a file called EVENTLOG.XML which contain exceptions and information that may be helpful. The file is located in the /LogFiles directory on your Web App. Figure 1 illustrates how that […]
Read More →Application Request Routing is a software based load balancing system, plus more. When you configure your web farm you can choose from a number of different load balancing algorithm as shown in Figure 1. I needed to add that in because I like the load balancing features in ARR, it is so simple compared to […]
Read More →There are numerous ways to publish your web sites to a Microsoft Azure App Service Web App. Click on one of your App Service Web App and on the Quick Start page you see a link called ‘Set up deployment from source control’, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Set up deployment from source […]
Read More →If you are performing a deployment and it is not working, working only after some effort or it’s not working as expected, one feature that might help you find the reason is the deployment log available using KUDU. You can access your deployment details by entering https://***.scm.azurewebsites.net (where *** is the site name of your […]
Read More →
Debugging a process crash is a challenging activity. Although you know the exception type, the exceptions error message and you know the method that it is being thrown from, you still can’t find out why the exception is being thrown. It is especially complicated when the error is happening randomly and you cannot reproduce it. […]
Read More →There is a nice set of troubleshooting and analysis tools for use with Microsoft Azure Web Apps (formerlly Web Sites) called KUDU. Information about that tool set can be found here. It is useful for capturing a memory dump, as explained here, looking at deployment logs, viewing configuration parameters and much more. To access your […]
Read More →I wrote this article here in regards to an issue that I was having after installing an SSL certificate on an IIS web server. One of the tools I used was the HTTP ETW trace, also known as LOGMAN. As you notice from reading the other previous article, I was receiving a 404 HTTP Status […]
Read More →There was a recent announcement of some new features on the Microsoft Azure App Service platform that supports the deployment of your new web site instance without impacting or changing the live web site. This is a feature that has been available on the Cloud Service platform form most of its existence and is very […]
Read More →