NOTE: Security is a very serious topic and you should always engage an IT security expert before deploying an application that needs to be secure. This article is intended to share my experience versus being an article to use as a guideline. With all the news about the different vulnerabilities like heartbleed and poodle, developers […]
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There is a great overview of Web Hosting Plans here, so this blog is not about what they are but 2 experiences I have had with them. Why do I think they exist now How I recently cleaned up my subscription with them For someone who has been using Azure App Services for some time […]
Read More →I was making a lot of changes to one of my Azure Websites the other day and received the messages within the Azure Management Console similar to those shown in Figure 1 and 2. Figure 1, Updating the configuration for web site failed Figure 2, The deployment history is unavailable when the site is stopped […]
Read More →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 […]
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It becomes unexciting when I need to access multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to check configurations and such. Sure, you can use PowerShell, but I am a GUI guy and prefer the nice icons and text boxes over command line. I get a new GUI when a new version of the OS is released […]
Read More →I wanted to share an experience I had when using the Azure Traffic Manager with 2 Microsoft Azure App Service Web Apps. If you are not clear on what the Traffic Manager does, read my other post here. Simply, it is a way to balance load across multiple identical instances of an application so that […]
Read More →I will confess to not being a security expert. So this article is not about how the process works, instead about a change that I had a hard time finding when working with a customer some months ago. Security is serious business, so I like to leave those kinds of things to the experts and […]
Read More →One of the most challenging aspects of creating a disaster recovery environment was having a quick failover to a website that exists in another datacenter. These failover instances usually contained stale code, the hardware for the environment was expensive and rarely, if ever utilized and when we tried to failover to the DR it rarely […]
Read More →The kind of Client Certificate I use most is stored electronically on a chip located on the back of my id badge. There is a card reader in my PC that can access these certificates, which are protected by a pin and requested when I attempt to access a web site that is configured to […]
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