There are many documents that cover the configuration of ARR, but this one’s my own. I write this post to set the base line for another article I wrote here, about configuring ARR to work with Windows Authentication, specifically Kerberos. After taking the actions in this article and making sure all is running as expected, […]
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I wrote an article here about how to capture a memory dump of the W3WP process that runs your Azure Web App. Once you get the Memory dump, here are the steps you need to find out what the reason for the slow performance is. First, I open the W3WP dump in WinDbg, as shown […]
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The process for mapping a wildcard domain, for example *.contoso.com to a Web App can be achieved by performing the following: Adding a CNAME at your domain hosting provider Adding the custom domain within the Azure portal Adding wildcard domain names to multiple Web Apps Once these steps are complete, accessing your Web App using […]
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I was following these instructions here using CERTREQ to create my certificate request, and everything worked fine up to step 6. In step 6 is states that I should have a CER file. I wrote some articles about creating a certificate here and here, where there is a CER file created, however, when I downloaded […]
Read More →When you scale to more than a single instance of a Web App, it gets a little complicated to monitor or troubleshoot an issue. The complicated part is trying to find which of the instances are experiencing the problem. In many cases, a majority of the requests complete just fine, but from time to time, […]
Read More →If your Web App is not behaving like you expect, you might consider implementing Auto Healing. Auto Healing for a Web App lets you take an action when certain events occurr, for example: When request count breaches a certain limit When requests are running slower that expected When an unexpected http status code is received […]
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One of the surprises I had when I moved many of my sites from a domain hoster to an Azure Web App was that the platform only provided web services and that I had lost my SMTP services. That meant I was not able to send or receive emails from my private domains. I rushed […]
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I setup a Web App to test deployments from GitHub. Once the Web App was created I linked it to GitHub by selecting the “Integrate source control” link on the main page of for the website and selected GitHub. Following the wizard I was able to make the link between the 2. The details are […]
Read More →When you choose a region to place your Web App into, it is placed onto a stamp or scale unit. The scale unit is an isolated entity within the region or datacenter. This entity encapsulates and protects the Web Apps contained within it from service interruptions that may happen in other scale units. When you […]
Read More →I was working on some code that used Entity Framework and an ASP.NET WebAPI as the interface for accessing the data. With my experience so far, when I publish my WebAPI and then access it, the result is a JSON formatted file that I can open or save via a message popup similar to that […]
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