When accessing your Azure App Service Web App, if you receive an HTTP 500 response, similar to that shown in Figure 1, first step is to add or modify the customErrors attribute and set the mode property to Off, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 1, Azure Web App returns a 500 Figure 2, change […]
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I have see a lot of articles about running complicated cmdlets searching for the version of Azure PowerShell they are running. First, I always install Microsoft components using the Web Platform Installer, similar to that shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, how to install Microsoft Azure PowerShell Then to see what version it is, I […]
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On a web server with multiple application pools, there most likely will be multiple W3WP processes. Therefore, the first action to take when creating a memory dump of a W3WP worker process is to find which one you need to get the dump of. I wrote a short article on how to get a worker […]
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I have been using the Microsoft Band since it was brought to market and I am a big fan of it. Although I actively use all its features, I have learned the most about myself and made the most changes to myself based on the data captured during my sleep. (be sure to read the […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that describes how to connect to a Web App from IIS manager. If you cannot do that, read down at the bottom of the article where I show the configuration you can add to the web.config manually. Here is a document that discusses this feature in more detail. Once you […]
Read More →If you have ever wondered how to find the outgoing IP address of your Web App, Mobile App, API App or Logic App, look no further. To see how to find the OUTBOUND IP ADDRESSES from the Azure portal, view Video 1 (removed). Video 1, find outgoing, outbound IP addresses from the portal You can […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that discusses how to troubleshoot a WebJob, during the creation of that post I found decided to figure out this technique as well (calling the WebJob API). Originally, I was using the Azure SDK to trigger the WebJob from Visual Studio Server Explorer, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, […]
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Once you have captured a memory dump, instead of, or in addition to using WinDbg to analyze the memory dump, you can use a tool called DebugDiag which can be downloaded here. I discuss how to capture a memory dump in numerous ways here. After installing the debugging tool, make sure have opened the Debug […]
Read More →I worked on a case where the customer stated that their Web App was pretty small but when looking at the File System Storage metric in the Azure portal, they saw that is consumed almost 30 GB. The way I recommended they check it out is to use the KUDU console. I wrote an article […]
Read More →I was asked a question about if the Application Request Router supports the HTTP 2 protocol on IIS 10 (not sure what it will be called). I was pretty confident that it did, but nothing beats a test to confirm it. So that is what I did. I used this article here that contains some […]
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