Azure Active Directory Empowering developer teams to manage their own Azure RBAC permissions in highly regulated industries Many highly regulated enterprises are looking to leverage the public cloud for the many benefits that it provides. Some examples are to increase agility of their developer teams, improve compliance
microsoft edge Distributing Custom Microsoft Edge (Chromium) Extensions in a Highly Regulated Enterprise Microsoft decided to base the latest version of Microsoft Edge on Chromium, this results in a much more standards-based browsing experience where Microsoft can innovate in other areas like UI
azure functions Profiling Azure Functions JavaScript code during local development Azure Application Insights provides some excellent profiling functionality when targeting .NET and running your production workloads in Azure. As far as I'm aware Azure Application Insights does not currently provide
Azure DevTest Labs Leveraging the Windows Virtual Desktop Broker to Broker Remote Desktop connections to Azure DevTest Lab Virtual Machines In this post I want to look at how we can combine two of Azure's Desktop services: Windows Virtual DesktopAzure DevTest LabsLet's look at each of these services in a
Azure DevOps Engineering Compliant Azure Shared Image Gallery Images and sharing them across multiple Azure Active Directory Tenants The Azure Shared Image Gallery service is an excellent service for globally distributing images for use in Azure across your organization. There are several ways which you can use to
Azure Active Directory Simulating Azure Active Directory Application Authentication flows using PowerShell - openid connect and form_post It can be useful to simulate or test the various Azure Active Directory Authentication flows, in this post I outline the steps which you can follow to test out any
azure files Uploading large files to an Azure File Share using a shell script and standard linux commands I recently looked at how I could perform an upload of a file to an Azure File Share with a limited set of tools. Realistically there are several ways we
azure cli Intercepting Azure CLI HTTP traffic leveraging Fiddler Its sometimes helpful to look at the HTTP Requests generated by the Azure CLI to understand how to replicate certain scenarios when it's not clear from documentation. Usually capturing HTTP
Azure Pipelines Options for storing Azure Pipelines YAML files This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The first post covered the connectivity challenges
Highly Regulated Triggering Azure Pipelines with an offline artefact repository This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The second post covered how we can
Azure Pipelines Triggering Azure Pipelines with an offline source repository This blog post is part of a series of posts covering the Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries. The first post covered some of the
Azure DevOps Challenges adopting the Azure DevOps SaaS offering in highly regulated industries - Connectivity In highly regulated industries I see that some enterprises experience challenges when adopting the Software as a Service offering of Azure DevOps. The benefits of leveraging a SaaS product are
app service How I am running my Ghost blog on Azure 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
Azure DevOps Performance issues when using PowerShell to download files during AzureDevops/ TFS pipeline execution 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.
ASP .NET Core Out of process hosting of ASP .NET Core with IIS, do AppPool resource limits apply? 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
Azure Azure Container Instances Rock! 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
Azure Deploying Kubernetes with Azure 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
windows Windows Embedded Compact 7 Development on Windows 10 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
sharepoint SharePoint PeoplePicker Filtering Active Directory accounts by using LDAP queries and custom attributes returns no results 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