I recently had to migrate off of a managed Wordpress blogging platform, after some research I discovered Ghost. I didn't want to use a shared platform as I wanted more control of my blog, I also didn't want to build from source or spend a large amount of effort on…
If you are using the PowerShell task together with Invoke-WebRequest or Invoke-RestMethod during your build/release on Azure DevOps or TFS you may not be getting the performance you expect. We recently experienced such an issue where downloading larger files(~40Mb) during the execution of a build on TFS was…
I am currently in the process of migrating to Ghost from Wordpress, I successfully deployed Ghost as a container on top of Azure Web App for Containers but still need to import my old posts. Expect more to come in the future.…
In IIS we can impose resource limits on the Application Pool hosting our Web Applications, in this scenario we are typically hosting in-process i.e. ASP .NET, but do these limits still apply when we host a ASP .NET Core 2.0 application? CPU Limit Memory Limit Currently we host…
I was recently updating an old website, I decided to move the old ASP .NET Web Forms code base over to latest and greatest ASP .NET Core 2.0 and Razor Pages. It wasn't a large code base but it did contain some Flash and Silverlight, which given declining client…
I’m loving everything related to containers at the moment, in Azure we have a number of ways that we can deploy our container work loads: Azure Container Instances Azure App Service Azure Container Service(AKS/ACS) Azure ServiceFabric Each brings with it its own benefits and challenges some of…
Although the following scenario works keep in mind that it is not necessarily supported by Microsoft, use the information at own risk. It’s important to note that official Support for Visual Studio 2008 ends April 10th 2018. Recently I spent time looking into this scenario, a colleague pointed me…
Problem : I am using the stsadm property "peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter" to set a custom search filter but the people picker returns no results, even though I am sure that the user exists. I am using a Custom Active Directory Attribute in my filter is there anything special I have to…