When developing containers or applications that need to be hosted on Kubernetes it is handy to have a local Kubernetes cluster. With the use of Docker you can easily create a local single node cluster. Docker Start by installing Docker for your operating system. In this guide I used Docker for Windows but the operating…
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 On my blog I wrote a couple of articles on Hybrid Connections and this time I was working with the VPN connection. For a project we were setting up the…
This post is the first post in a series of three posts and will help you with the creation of identity pass-through authentication from a client application to an API and then to an Azure SQL Database. In this post we setup an Azure SQL Database and enable Azure Active Directory authentication on the database.…
Azure Management and Governance is hard because Azure services are growing at a fast pace. Try to imagine that you are a Azure Administrator for a large company and that you need to maintain the Azure Subscription. If you start thinking about it sounds really hard and that makes you wonder about options that you have…
In many situation you would like to do a offline installation of SharePoint 2013 or you are required to do a offline installation because you do not have a network connection on the server. The prerequisites installer of SharePoint 2013 downloads the requirements directly of the internet. So we will have to make sure this…
During my current project we received an access request from a user. We did what we normally do, we checked the request and added the user in the appropriate SharePoint Group and notified the user. After 15 minutes the user told us that it wasn’t working. We looked at the User Group and found out…
After reading a lot of information about Windows Server 2012 R2 I found out that it has a really nice feature if you are into virtualization as much as me. When using virtualization you may have a lot of virtual disks that contain a lot of the same data. For example you have four machines…
As a SharePoint developer you do not often get the question what SharePoint version do we need to install. In many situations we see that the Enterprise license is installed. For a project I’m currently working on I got the question to stick to the SharePoint 2013 Standard license. Having this requirement we were looking…
When I was setting up a new SharePoint environment this week I was getting very annoyed about perflib error messages within the event log: “The Open Procedure for service “WmiApRpl” in DLL “C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wmiaprpl.dll” failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error…
When using SharePoint 2013 you are able to Sync your document libraries to your local system when using SkyDrive Pro. SkyDrive Pro was only available on: Office 365 Pro Plus Office 365 Small Business Premium Office Professional Plus 2013 SkyDrive Pro is now also available as standalone client application and can be downloaded here:…
Last week the new version of SharePoint 2013 was released on MSDN. As a real SharePoint enthusiasts I directly downloaded the version. Information about this version can be read here. This new version of SharePoint called SharePoint 2013 has a new Installation screen, to give more power to the new Interface. Today I will start…
Last week we finished the installation of SharePoint 2013. For us to test the new version off SharePoint we still have to do some configuration. The first thing we will do is creating a couple of service accounts that we will use to create Service Application and Web Applications. Open Active Directory Users or Computer…