It wouldn’t be prudent to divulge the intellectual property (IP) details of how Azure App Services are configured in detail, but, right or wrong, I like to point to Azure Pack Web Sites (*) as the building block of Azure App Services. However, keep in mind that Azure Stack is a more recent version of […]
Read More →Archive for January, 2017
Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used
I like to write stuff. As I personally use it for reference, instead of keeping it to myself, I often post it onto my blog here. Here is my list of most used WinDbg commands and what information I get for them. I was a big fan of PSSCOR, but since MEX is now a […]
Read More →Can you trace WCF using Failed Request Tracing
Yes you can. I wrote this blog a long time ago that explains how to setup a Hello World WCF service and consumer. I have also written numerous articles about Failed Request Traces: Lab 4: Install and configure Failed Request Tracing Lab 16: Configuring Failed Request Tracing to take a memory dump Install Failed Request […]
Read More →GENERAL_READ_ENTITY_START
I was looking around for some understanding on the what this event within the request pipeline meant. As seen in Figure 1, you can find this event when you are capturing a Failed Request trace. I wrote a lab about capturing Failed Request Traces here –> Lab 4: Install and configure Failed Request Tracing Figure […]
Read More →How to check Azure App Service OS version, what version of IIS
This is a FAQ on GitHub which has a lot of information about 2016. If you are interested to find out which version of IIS or OS your Azure App Service is running on, you can check it like this. Check in KUDU Capture a Fiddler trace I wrote about KUDU here, just in case […]
Read More →How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only
I wrote this article some years ago here “HTTPS only on Azure App Service Web Apps” that explains how to redirect all traffic made to an Azure App Service using HTTP to HTTPS using a URL Rewrite rule. This is now achievable in the portal. To enable the HTTPS Only feature in the portal, navigate […]
Read More →Drag and drop deployment to an Azure App Service, quick, for simple small changes
There are many way to deploy code and files to an Azure App Service, repositories like Visual Studio Team Services, GitHub, content storage like OneDrive or Drop Box, using an FTP tool, use the command-line tool msdeploy or directly from within the Visual Studio IDE. However, if you wanted to deploy just a single or […]
Read More →Troubleshooting an Azure App Service backup issue
Here and here “My Backups are failing, Let’s open a support ticket” are some good information about how to configure an Azure App Service backup. I like the fact that you can also include a database backup in parallel with a backup of the web site. Keep in mind the limit of 10GB in regards […]
Read More →How to create a self-signed SAN certificate, wildcard certificate vs SAN
I have some domain names that I use for testing out Azure features, write some blogs and other fun stuff. I find myself needing, wanting to use HTTPS and using the instructions I wrote some time ago, see below, to create the certificate is long and tedious. I had an epiphany which lead me to […]
Read More →Azure Functions and Azure are blowing my mind
I am really starting to like these Azure Functions. Just imagining that I don’t even need a server anymore…at all. Only a few years ago the major blocker was getting a server online to manage requests from your customer, the cost, complexity and management was HUGE! And now you don’t even need one at all. […]
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