A method to 100% shutdown the public endpoint of an App Service running in the public tenant is not provided. However, you can create an ILB ASE (which is not a public tenant) or you can restrict the access using an IP Restriction. Here is some information on the detailed feature for setting this up […]
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Using Managed Service Identity (MSI) with an Azure App Service or an Azure Function
Instead of storing user id / passwords or database connection strings in source or configuration files, you should consider storing them in an Azure Key vault. Azure Function 400 Bad Request How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Create an Azure Key Vault secret How to connect to a database from an […]
Read More →Implementing custom cultures, CultureInfo, localize Azure App Service
You cannot, at this moment, create a custom culture on an Azure App Service. Cultures are part of the standard operating system and require changes to the registry to modify or add them. An Azure App Service runs in a sandbox which does not allow code or script to modify the registry. I do not […]
Read More →Web Deploy ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE Azure Web App
I was writing this article where I was testing out how to backup my App Service from the Cloud Shell using BASH. And I got this exception when I was publishing, Figure 1. Web deployment task failed. (Could not connect to the remote computer (“***.scm.azurewebsites.net”). On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is […]
Read More →Time sync, synchronization on an Azure App Service
An Azure App Service is PaaS and synchronizes the clocks based on the hosting platform. As per this request, the drift may be up to 2 seconds and are synced once per week. That request was made some years ago when an App Service was running on Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8. With the […]
Read More →Creating an Azure App Service Hybrid Connection
This is such a simple yet powerful tool to use, easy to implement and does some real hard core, complicated stuff in the back ground to get the connectivity to work. Similar instructions can be found here “Azure App Service Hybrid Connections”. I wrote this article about connecting an Azure App Service to VM in […]
Read More →Troubleshooting App Service Hybrid Connection Manager
I wrote this article “Enable logging for your Hybrid Connection Manager, troubleshooting”, but that was for the deprecated Hybrid Connection feature which uses Azure Biztalk. You would see any ‘classic’ connections in the ‘Classic hybrid connections’ area on the Hybrid connections as seen in Figure 1. Figure 1, classic hybrid connections If you are running […]
Read More →Web Server Logging, IIS logs, deployment slots and swaps
I wrote a number of articles related to this topic, have a look to get a better context in regards to this one. Download Azure App Services Web App log files from Visual Studio Enable logging on your Windows Azure Web App – App Service from Visual Studio Using LogParser to analyze the EVENTLOG.XML, Azure […]
Read More →Make changes to Azure App Service setting using Postman
I wrote an article here “How to disable/enable HTTP/2, Azure App Service” that showed how to change an Azure App Service setting Resource Explorer. You can also do this from Postman, which I wrote about here “Using Postman to call Azure REST APIs” . The most challenging aspect of doing this is getting the Bearer […]
Read More →How to disable/enable HTTP/2, Azure App Service
The official announcement can be found here “Announcing HTTP/2 support in Azure App Service”. Currently, to disable or enable HTTP/2 on an Azure App Service you need to use Resource Explorer. I have written numerous articles about Resource Explorer so if you need more information about it and what it is, take a quick look […]
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