OK, so I tricked you…you can’t do what is said in the title, well I better not say you can’t because someone could possibly come up with a a way, but what I should say is that if you try to create a virtual directory in the portal as shown in Figure 1, that points […]
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Failed to save Auth settings Easy Auth Azure Authentication
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 […]
Read More →Failed to update App Service Plan the sites exceed maximum number of slots
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 […]
Read More →How to see the cipher suites on an Azure App Service
I wrote an article here about TLS 1.2 which listed out the cipher suite used to negotiate security settings (encryption) between a client and server via a Network Monitor trace. You can probably see the same using Wireshark. Regardless, here is a nice Wiki article about cipher suites. It was a journey getting to the […]
Read More →Create an Azure App Service Web App using PowerShell
There are numerous place to find this same example, but while I am ramping up my Azure PowerShell #Azure #AzurePowerShell #PowerShell skills, I though I’d go ahead and document it up so I have all this information in a single place for future reference. While I am at it, I might as well share it […]
Read More →How to disable TLS 1.0 on an Azure App Service Web App
UPDATE as of 17-APR-2018 you can, read about that here. Short answer is, prior to 17-APR-2018, that you couldn’t. (see alternative solution below) The reason is that when you deploy an Azure App Service it goes into a multi-tenant scale unit. A scale unit looks something like Figure 1, which I stole from here. Also, […]
Read More →How to deploy a .NET Core console application to Azure, WebJob
Check out some of my other articles I wrote in regards to ASP.NET Core and .Net Core How to call an async method from a console app main method How to deploy a .NET Core console application to Azure, WebJob .NET Core application, where is my EXE, how to publish Create a VNET and access […]
Read More →Create a VNET and access an Azure VM hosted within it from an App Services Web App
There are 2 kinds of VNETs at the moment, they are VNETv1 (ASM), also referred to as ‘Classic virtual networks’ and VNETv2 (ARM), aka ‘Resource Manager virtual networks’. The binding between a VNETv1 and a Web App can be achieved within the AUX portal here, while the same needs to be performed using PowerShell for […]
Read More →Create a memory dump for your slow performing Web App
There are numerous ways to create a memory dump for a slow performing Web App, but I find this one the simplest and quickest. Follow these steps to capture a memory dump of the W3WP process responding to requests which are slower than expected. Here are the steps: Login to your KUDU console. I wrote […]
Read More →Azure App Service Disk Length Queue
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 […]
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