Since last week “Azure Advisor” made it to public preview. Azure Advisor is a recommendation engine that recommends steps to take to optimally configure your Azure resources. By analyzing the resource configuration and usage data it is able to make recommendations according to the best practices that in the long run will reduce costs and…
DetailsWhen working on and maintaining Logic Apps, you want to be notified if a certain action or complete Logic App (workflows) fails. Setting this up can be done by using Azure Monitoring. Create Alert By following the below steps you will create an Alert on your Logic App and specify when this alert will be…
DetailsIn different kind of situations you need to use a certificate for authentication or signing. I needed on because I was setting up a Identity Server the Identity Server V3 (https://identityserver.io) to be exact. Within this Identity Server a certificate is used for signing. For testing purposes you can download one from their GitHub repository.…
DetailsFor Identity server to be able to sign the login request you can add a Test certificate from the Identity Server it self or you are able to generate a certificate your self. Generate certificate To generate a certificate compatible for Identity Server your self you can perform the following command in a “Developer Command…
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In some situations you will get into problems when creating a Azure Resource Template. I was creating a solution for a customer and had to add a Logic App to our template. That isn’t that hard I thought but when adding a Logic App to your template and making it parameterized and depending on other…
DetailsWhile browsing the internet and reading blog posts I usually find very useful links or great resources that I could use in many situation. The problem is that over time a lose these resources, so it is a good time to write them down and also share them with my readers. When I find new…
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When working with Azure services, you will combine services together. For one of mine integration cases I had to create a LogicApp where in I needed to use one of my own API’s in order to perform some actions. In order for the Logic apps designer to parse your Swagger and notice your API as…
DetailsMotion10 hosted a summerschool about Azure IOT. For the summerschool me and my colleagues (Jesse Gorter and Wesley Bakker) created several labs and presentations for temperature monitoring with a ESP8266. The Azure IOT presentation is shared on SlideShare. All other information is shared on GitHub. Presentation Labs and other Presentations: https://github.com/webbes/Summerschool
DetailsSharePoint contains a lot of Rest API’s that can be used for many scenario’s. You could use them for example in desktop and windows phone applications. When using these API’s you need to make sure authentication is handled before calling the API. For authenticating to these API’s there a couple of options: Authenticate as a…
DetailsSince that Azure uses the Azure Resource Manager you have the ability to setup your own templates for deploying your applications. This can be handy because the infrastructure for your application is typically made up of many components – maybe a virtual machine, storage account, and virtual network, or a web app, database, database server,…
DetailsAzure App Services can make use of Client Certificate Authentication. The options for this are not available in the portal and need to be configured manually. Activating Client Certificate Authentication In the below blog post on the Azure documentation site is explained how you can configure your Azure Web App for client certificate authentication: How…
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Azure Active Directory B2C is a feature released a couple of weeks ago in Azure and is still in preview. Azure Active Directory B2C is a consumer identity and access management in the could, some key features of this component are: Improve connection with your consumers. Pay only for what you use. Scale to a…
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