I remember the first time I converted the text in a Word document to Wingdings / dingbat font. I thought I had come up with a secret code that I could share with my made Zork co-adventurers which described avoidance techniques of evil elvish wizard masters. No one can forget about the hidden cave in […]
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The .NET framework provides a set of base class libraries which provide functions and features which can be used with any programming language which implements .NET, such as Visual Basic, C# (or course), Visual C++, etc. The base class library contains standard programming features such as Collections, XML, DataType definitions, IO ( for reading and […]
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Instead of storing user id / passwords or database connection strings in source or configuration files, you should consider storing them in an Azure Key vault. Azure Function 400 Bad Request How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Create an Azure Key Vault secret How to connect to a database from an […]
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Historically, or for some time the way to create an Azure Active Directory was either to create a new Subscription or use the old AUX portal. In the new portal, I was able to create an Azure Active Directory, I.e. ######.onmicrosoft.com by logging in to the portal clicking NEW –> Security + Identity –> Azure […]
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The labs contained in this article show how to create, configure, code and monitor an Azure Function with a Microsoft Graph. There is a detailed document here “Microsoft Graph bindings for Azure Functions” which discusses the Microsoft Graph in detail so I will not readdress that content. Azure Active Directory Tenant Every Azure subscription will […]
Read More →Check out my post here that explains how to start the Cloud Shell and set the subscription. Also checkout how to do the same using Azure PowerShell here. To backup an App Service using CLI / AZ you execute this command, seen in Figure 1. az webapp config backup create –resource-group “BACKUPS” –webapp-name “**********” –container-url […]
Read More →This article has to do mostly with the German Cloud, #GermanCloud #AzureGermany because it is most probable that there will not be anything similar to manage.windowsazure.com deployed to this solution. Why is that important? It is important because this is historically how many people configured thier PowerShell or other clients to make deployments/configurations onto Azure. […]
Read More →I was using FileZilla to try to change the file permissions and I got this error: Status: Setting permissions of ‘/site/wwwroot/index.html’ to ‘644’ Command: SITE CHMOD 644 index.html Response: 500 ‘SITE’: command not understood Status: Setting permissions of ‘/site/wwwroot/index.html’ to ‘755’ Command: SITE CHMOD 755 index.html Response: 500 ‘SITE’: command not understood Then I started […]
Read More →I found this article “Creating a local PFX copy of App Service Certificate” here and wanted to do a reproduction of it. I wrote an article here where I discussed “How (I) configured an App Service Certificate for my Azure App Service” which might help to get a broader perspective of what and how to […]
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The code can be downloaded from here or on GitHub. I wrote this post here where I discussed how I configured Azure Active Directory into one of my Azure App Service Web Apps. One of the main differences between that post and what I am trying to do here was realized when I received this […]
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