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Azure Managed Service Identity and Local Development

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

Instead of storing user credentials of an external system in a configuration file, you should store them in the Azure Key Vault. Before MSI (Managed

Azure, Development

Updates to my VSTS extensions

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

Since a couple of months I have been developing extensions for Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). I created extensions for task I had to do

VSTS

The securitydata Azure resource group

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

Most of the times companies have rules in place for managing their Azure environment. The main rules that should be in place are “Azure Policies”

Azure, Governance

Point to Site VPN Client won’t install

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

To connect an Azure App Service to a on-premise database you can make use of different solutions. Two of those solutions are: Hybrid Connection VPN

Azure, Networking

Invoke Azure Function in your Visual Studio Team Services CI/CD pipeline

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

A utility task is available for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to invoke an http triggered Azure function. The ability to invoke a Function from

ALM, Azure

VSTS Extension for Azure Role Based Access Control

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to add and remove role based access assignments in

ALM, Azure, VSTS

2017 review of MSFTPlayground

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Maik van der Gaag

One of the things I like to do is sharing knowledge with the Community. I started my blog in 2008 and changed the platform a

Review

Publish PowerBI files with Visual Studio Team Services

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Maik van der Gaag

Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to deploy PowerBI files (pbix) to PowerBI.com. It uses

ALM, VSTS

VSTS build or release agent on a self hosted machine in Azure or on premise

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Maik van der Gaag

You can think of many situations where you would like to create a self hosted machine for Visual Studio team services (VSTS). Installing and configuring

ALM, DevOps, VSTS

My first public VSTS Extension

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Maik van der Gaag

A couple of days ago I started developing extensions for Build and Release pipelines of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). One of these extensions is

ALM, VSTS