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 […]
Read More →
I have worked on a number of cases where web services or URLs are called using a code segment like the below code snippet. HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); The result of the GetResponse() method is some kind of error, for example a Timeout Exception, which is not always brought up to […]
Read More →11-AUG-2016: This article discusses INBOUND IPs, if you are looking for a single outbound IP address, Web Apps do not support that, instead there is a group of ~4 outgoing IP addresses described here. If you want your own set of outbound IPs, consider an ASE described here. 25-OCT-2017: If you delete an existing binding […]
Read More →In this post I will discuss 2 issues you might encounter when configuring an SSL certificate on Azure Web App. The certificate does not show in the drop-down. Browsing to your website over SSL / HTTPS you receive a security warning and the Azure Website wildcard certificate is delivered. ##The certificate does not show in […]
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 […]
Read More →Mapping a custom domain name to your Azure Web App (Website) is based around a very important principle. The principle being that you need to add a CNAME with a HOST = awverify. This is how we confirm that you are indeed the owner of this domain. If you have access to the DNS file […]
Read More →Azure Web Apps have not always supported the mapping of custom domain names with special characters in them, but it looks like it does now. I was able to map a custom domain with a special character to my Standard mode Azure Web App. To successfully configure an Azure Web App custom domain with a […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →