I wrote this article that discussed how to monitor the different instances of an Azure App Service. As you know, when you access the KUDU console, as I discussed here, you are accessing only 1 of the multiple instances, which may or may not be having a problem. So, if you take a memory dump […]
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I not only support App Service Azure Web Apps, I am a customer of them too. This is something we refer to as ‘eating our own Dogfood’ here at Microsoft. Using the services which you support is certainly a benefit when working together with a customer as it makes it easier to understand their perspective. […]
Read More →As you may know, Azure Apps Services contains Web App, Mobile Apps, API Apps, Logic Apps, etc…and it is possible to map a custom domain name to each of those. These articles here cover all the basics of the domain configuration from a DNS, CNAME and A Record, plus from the wildcard, subdomain, naked, traffic […]
Read More →Backing up your Web App and associated database is something you need to take very seriously. You never know when something might happen that requires a restoration of a backup. For example, the deployment of some bad code or the accidental removal of numerous files. Individuals or companies running IT services without backups, are taking […]
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I run a little website for fun and I store PNGs images into an Azure Blob Storage container. I also reference the PNGs directly from within the site. It is a small site and I have up until now about 1000 images in the container, it would be a catastrophe if I ever lost them, […]
Read More →Although I use TFS a lot, I thought I would setup a GitHub repository to host a public copy of my IIS, ASP.NET and C# troubleshooting labs located here. Here is how I did it. Install the GitHub extension for Visual Studio Create your GitHub repo and then login Create a GitHub repository Create a […]
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A recent feature deployed for App Services (Web App, Mobile App, API App or Logic App) is a tool that can scan your App Service for vulnerabilities, announced here. Once you have signed up, you will see a link to your management console similar to that shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, check your App […]
Read More →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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