Azure Managed Service Identity and Local Development
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 ...
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Updates to my VSTS extensions
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 manual a couple o...
The securitydata Azure resource group
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” and naming ...
Point to Site VPN Client won’t install
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 b...
Invoke Azure Function in your Visual Studio Team Services CI/CD pipeline
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/...
VSTS Extension for Azure Role Based Access Control
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. VS...
2017 review of MSFTPlayground
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 t...
Publish PowerBI files with Visual Studio Team Services
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 P...
VSTS build or release agent on a self hosted machine in Azure or on premise
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 se...
My first public VSTS Extension
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 finish...