If you have not already read the first part of this blog, please check it out Part 1 here. Uploaded the image to the Azure Blob container This…..was…..hard…. The code wasn’t hard, but getting the header formatted into the correct format was a hurdle, using the Micro Framework. It’s actually not possible to use the […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that explained how I got an HTTPS request to work from my Gadgeteer. This was one of the steps I took during the process of achieving my ultimate goal of storing an image, taken from a camera and placing it into an Azure Blob container. Sure, taking a picture and […]
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NOTE: Security is a very serious topic and you should always engage an IT security expert before deploying an application that needs to be secure. This article is intended to share my experience versus being an article to use as a guideline. With all the news about the different vulnerabilities like heartbleed and poodle, developers […]
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There is a great overview of Web Hosting Plans here, so this blog is not about what they are but 2 experiences I have had with them. Why do I think they exist now How I recently cleaned up my subscription with them For someone who has been using Azure App Services for some time […]
Read More →I was making a lot of changes to one of my Azure Websites the other day and received the messages within the Azure Management Console similar to those shown in Figure 1 and 2. Figure 1, Updating the configuration for web site failed Figure 2, The deployment history is unavailable when the site is stopped […]
Read More →404 status codes can be a little misleading. I wrote another article here about 404’s here from an on premise IIS perspective, but in principle the information applies. The fact about 404’s is that there are many sub status codes lined to the 404 status code. Most people believe that the 404 means simply that […]
Read More →NOTE: since the update to Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10 this capability is no longer supported and it likely never will be again. In the short-term, you need to be looking for an alternative and learn to live without this one….IMO. Consider Web Apps for Containers. I wrote an article about configuring remote IIS […]
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It becomes unexciting when I need to access multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to check configurations and such. Sure, you can use PowerShell, but I am a GUI guy and prefer the nice icons and text boxes over command line. I get a new GUI when a new version of the OS is released […]
Read More →I wanted to share an experience I had when using the Azure Traffic Manager with 2 Microsoft Azure App Service Web Apps. If you are not clear on what the Traffic Manager does, read my other post here. Simply, it is a way to balance load across multiple identical instances of an application so that […]
Read More →I will confess to not being a security expert. So this article is not about how the process works, instead about a change that I had a hard time finding when working with a customer some months ago. Security is serious business, so I like to leave those kinds of things to the experts and […]
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