I am really a GUI fan, but sometimes I have to help people run Azure PowerShell cmdlets. I wrote a few other Azure PowerShell articles like these here: How to tell which Azure PowerShell version you are running Moving an Azure App Service Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot In […]
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How to connect a PowerShell client to the German Cloud
The product known as German Cloud is deprecating. I am moving all articles to a new host. This article is here for historical reasons. As you many know there is a new sovereign instance of Azure in Germany the the German Cloud. #GermanCloud There are some differences between then, for example you need a new […]
Read More →Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot
I wrote an article here that explains how to install Azure PowerShell and to check what version it is. A trend that I am seeing is the we tend to create the capabilities to make modifications to an Azure feature and exposed the interface. Then we create a PowerShell cmdlet and then later it gets […]
Read More →Lab 8: PowerShell WebAdministration Module
Prerequisites Some understanding of PowerShell Read about the Web Administration module http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee909471(v=WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790599.aspx There are some new PowerShell IIS cmdlets for IIS 10, see them here. What’s new in IIS 10? Setup Install and Configure CSharpGuitarBugs on an IIS server as described in Lab 1 Lab Review the features available in the PowerShell WebAdmnistration module […]
Read More →How to take a memory dump from a specific App Service instance
I wrote this article that discussed how to monitor the different instances of an Azure App Service. As you know, when you access the KUDU console, as I discussed here, you are accessing only 1 of the multiple instances, which may or may not be having a problem. So, if you take a memory dump […]
Read More →How to tell which Azure PowerShell version you are running
I have see a lot of articles about running complicated cmdlets searching for the version of Azure PowerShell they are running. First, I always install Microsoft components using the Web Platform Installer, similar to that shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, how to install Microsoft Azure PowerShell Then to see what version it is, I […]
Read More →Using KUDU with Microsoft Azure Web Apps
There is a nice set of troubleshooting and analysis tools for use with Microsoft Azure Web Apps (formerlly Web Sites) called KUDU. Information about that tool set can be found here. It is useful for capturing a memory dump, as explained here, looking at deployment logs, viewing configuration parameters and much more. To access your […]
Read More →Using PowerShell to find the Process Id (PID) of an Application Pool
With the release of Windows 8 Server comes a new version of PowerShell. You can check which version of PowerShell you are using by executing the command show in Figure 1. Figure 1, Which version of PowerShell am I using To get a list of application pools existing on the web server enter the following […]
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