Visual Studio Code is becoming one of the tools that you need to use when developing PowerShell scripts. It allows you to debug your scripts. But how do you add parameters for debugging. The upcoming paragraphs will explain how. PowerShell Parameters are common when developing scripts. Most probably they are configured with the Param object. Just like…
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 Service Identity) you would have to store the credentials to use the key vault in the configuration file so this wasn’t really helpful. With MSI (Managed Service Identity) you do…
As of yesterday (16-8-2017) the public preview of Azure Event Grid is live. Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event routing service. Azure Event Grid greatly simplifies the development of event-based applications and simplifies serverless workflow creation. Using a single service, Azure Event Grid manages all routing of events from any source, to any…
This post is the third and last in a series of three posts and will help you with the creation of identity pass-through authentication from a client application to a API and then to an Azure SQL Database. In this post we will create a console application to query the API published in Azure. Previous…
On 22 April I will be speaking at the Global Azure Bootcamp of Motion10. This year the Global event will be held for the fifth time. It is a one-day deep dive class to help thousands of people get up to speed on developing solutions for Azure. Motion10 (Rotterdam, Netherlands) will be one of the…
For 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…
While 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…
SharePoint 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…
Azure functions is a component released a few weeks ago by Microsoft in Azure to easily perform code/function in Azure. “Azure functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or “functions,” in the cloud. You can write just the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole…
In the previous post the API app was configured and altered to support Application Identity security. The next step is to make a client application ready to call the API’s in a secured way. In order to do this the Azure Active Directory needs to be aware of the application. For this the needs be…
Deploying an API within Azure is a very simple tasks. But how about security? The API itself is exposed to the outside world. When for example have a API app that is connected to on-premise systems with an Hybrid Connection the API will have to be secured in a certain way. An option is to…
Within Azure there is a option to change several configuration settings. When working with Deployment Slots this means you have to click a lot within the Azure Portal and that can be a very time consuming operation. The configuration of the Azure App Service can be automated by using PowerShell, for this first example we…