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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NOTE: This exception happens most often when your corporate IT department has a firewall rule or proxy which is preventing the deployment to be made. The first step should be that you attempt a deployment outside of your corporate network, perhaps from home when connected on your private ISP. I was doing some deployments to […]
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404 status codes can be a little misleading. I wrote another article here about 404’s here from an on premise IIS perspective, but in principle the information applies. The fact about 404’s is that there are many sub status codes lined to the 404 status code. Most people believe that the 404 means simply that […]
Read More →NOTE: since the update to Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10 this capability is no longer supported and it likely never will be again. In the short-term, you need to be looking for an alternative and learn to live without this one….IMO. Consider Web Apps for Containers. I wrote an article about configuring remote IIS […]
Read More →It is becoming a common scenario that customers of Azure Web Apps are making requests to services hosted on other Azure IaaS or PaaS platforms, services not hosted on the Azure platform (on premise) and which use the System.Net class. For example, making a request from your code that uses either of the following code […]
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I was working on an unrelated issue and all of a sudden I started getting some strange errors in IIS. Something like the errors shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Figure 1 was rendered when I opened the IIS management console and attempted to expand the server name to see the websites on the […]
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I am migrating all my articles to this site. I wrote this one long ago and posting here for historical reasons. I hope you enjoy it. After creating my Windows Phone application I wanted to test out how difficult or easy it would be to port that to a Windows 8 Store App. After some […]
Read More →When you are troubleshooting IIS issues there are tools like Failed Request Tracing, IIS logs, etc. which will let you see what is going on. But what do you do when IIS itself is not working? A common cause is that the applicationHost.config file is corrupted. Perhaps there was a manual modification made to it […]
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