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… Continue Reading
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 your CI/CD pipeline offers a lot of new possibilities within those pipelines. Arguments The Arguments… Continue Reading
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 Azure. VSTS Extension The screenshot below shows the extension. The extension can do… Continue Reading
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 couple of times from WordPress to SharePoint and BlogEngine.Net to SharePoint to WordPress again. In… Continue Reading
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 the PowerBI API that has the following operations (at the time of writing this article):… Continue Reading
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 a self hosted machine requires only a few steps. Before you begin make sure the… Continue Reading
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 finished and I wanted to share it with the community. VSTS Extension The extension… Continue Reading
In some situations you will look into a current Azure Environment and the setup/governance of it and need to migrate or move resources around. The below script will help you with exporting the Azure resources into a CSV file, from… Continue Reading
You can set up permissions and policies to control who can read and update code in a branch on your Git repo within VSTS. You can set permissions for individual users and groups, and inherit and override permissions as needed.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
As you know the classic hybrid connections that are build upon Azure BizTalk Services are deprecated. These connection will have to be replaced by the new hybrid connections based upon Azure Relay Services Configure access to a private network for… Continue Reading
As you may know almost everything that is deployed to Azure is publicly available. As with Azure SQL Database you do not have a firewall available for Azure Web Applications. That means other options need to be used to restrict… Continue Reading