Author: Benjamin Perkins

Failed to save Auth settings Easy Auth Azure Authentication

Security Cyber Benjamin Perkins

When I tried to configure a a URL into the ALLOWED EXTERNAL REDIRECT URLS text box, as shown in Figure 1, I received the following error. Failed to save Auth Settings for authenticated App: {"Code":"Conflict","Message":"Cannot update the site ‘******’ because Authentication / Authorization was configured with an invalid external redirect URL ‘***.***.***.***’. All configured URLs […]

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Failed to update App Service Plan the sites exceed maximum number of slots

Azure App Service Benjamin Perkins

After some testing I wanted to scale down my 5 instances of Standard S3 plan machines and I got this error when scaling down to FREE: Failed to update App Service plan : {“Code”:”Conflict”,”Message”:”The site(s) ” exceed maximum number of slots allowed for the hosting plan. Remove all deployment slots before scaling to a different […]

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500.79 Internal Server Error

Debugging Benjamin Perkins

I got this exception when I was trying to configure the Azure Active Directory authentication in Advance management mode for an Azure App Service.  Basically, I was following the (Alternative Method) instructions described here.  After following all the instructions, I was getting this exception, as shown in Figure 1. The page cannot be displayed because […]

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Add a new user to my Azure Subscription

Azure Benjamin Perkins

I wanted to add a new user to my subscription and I wanted to make that person an Owner.  This is how I did it. Create the account Grant the account access to the subscription Create the account I logged into the Azure management portal and navigated to Azure Active Directory and clicked ‘Add a […]

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What do C# values look like in WinDbg

WinDbg Benjamin Perkins

One of the important areas you need to master when analyzing memory dumps is to recognize patterns that are normal and not normal.  You can only come to those conclusions after looking at many, many, many, many memory dumps and either remembering or taking notes on how a process looks when all is ok, so […]

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