Creating a Logic App API Connection that uses the Managed Identity using Bicep
Logic Apps in Azure provides a platform for building workflows that integrate with various services and APIs. When creating Logic Apps, you must often connec...
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Azure
Centrally manage your App Configurations
The application landscape in Azure has grown significantly in recent years, with a wide range of tools and services available to help businesses build, deplo...
Microsoft Defender for DevOps
During Ignite 2022, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender for DevOps. With Microsoft Defender for DevOps, you can discover, monitor, and detect threats in yo...
Default Role Based Access Control on newly created resource groups
Within our company, we have a sponsorship subscription we use for developing / testing purposes. As we heavily use this subscription, we often come into prob...
Building your Azure Policies (GitHub Actions) - Part 3
As written in part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Building your Azure Policies (Azure DevOps) - Part 2
As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Building your Azure Policies - Part 1
Azure Policy is a way of enforcing standards and guardrails and assessing resource compliance. In Azure, the compliance dashboard offers an aggregated view t...
Azure Costs Analysis preview with Anomaly detection
Microsoft has released new functionality in public preview to manage the costs of Azure subscriptions. This new functionality gives excellent insights into t...
Custom security recommendation within Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers the option to include custom security recommendations. For custom security recommendations you can think of corporate sec...
User-friendly compliance messages for Azure Policy
When resource creation fails because of Azure Policies the error is not always that descriptive and you will have to search for the failure. If you look at t...
Export existing Azure resources to Bicep
With the new release of Bicep (v0.4.1124) it is now possible to export existing Azure resources to Bicep code. This means you do not have to export your reso...
Using private repositories for Bicep modules
As of version 0.4.1008 bicep now supports repositories for saving bicep modules. Repositories that are supported at the time of writing this article are:
Execute scripts against Azure from GitHub Actions
Within Azure DevOps service connections are used for the authentication against the Azure platform but in GitHub this works a little bit different. Let me ex...
Run cloud native application anywhere with Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
At the beginning of this year Microsoft released Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes, this enabled you to attach conformant Kubernetes clusters to Azure f...
Azure Template Specs managed via Azure DevOps with bicep
Azure template spec is a resource type within Azure used for storing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for later use. By using template specs you have...
Running bicep within Azure DevOps Pipelines
During Ignite Microsoft released bicep version 0.3.1. With this version the bicep language is not experimental any more. Some pointer about this version are:
Private Azure DevOps agent pool based the Microsoft Hosted Agents
In Azure DevOps it is possible to create a agent pool that references a Azure virtual machine scale set. This scale set can be based on one of the build in i...
The new and shiny - Azure Template Specs
Azure Template specs is a new resource within Azure that is used for saving Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM). With these template specifics you can lat...
Managing the Microsoft Azure cloud is not easy, would a cloud team be useful?
Most organizations start with the Microsoft Azure cloud by experimenting and before they know it, an environment is created that is no longer as transparent ...
Control over a Azure Cloud environment? Create a governance plan!
Control over your cloud environment is great. In order to properly monitor and manage a cloud environment, it is important to draw up a cloud governance plan...
Getting started with Project Bicep for Azure ARM
Bicep is at the time of writing an experimental language that you can be used to simplify the writing of ARM templates. Bicep is a so called DSL (Domain Spec...
Connecting to the Resource Graph Client via the Resource Graph SDK
In order to retrieve information from Azure Subscriptions someone at a client wanted to use the Resource Graph API. For this they were building an ASP.Net Co...
Testing ARM templates
A few weeks ago I was looking at ways how I could test my ARM templates. During my work I create a lot of these templates and it always a lot of work to chec...
On-demand Azure Policy Scan
When moving to a DevOps way of working it is important to have a good set of rules on how to work with software and infrastructure. When looking into Azure ...
The past three months of a technology junkie
The last couple of months I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like because it has been a real roller coaster for me and my family. For some reason we ...
How I try to keep up with technology
Technology is changing in a very fast pace. If we look at Microsoft technologies like Azure, you see changes every week. Because of this I get a lot of quest...
Securing applications with the Azure Key Vault and Azure DevOps
When developing applications for Azure security it always one of the items you need to cross of your list. Many security requirements can be solved by embedd...
Getting Started with Azure Monitoring via AIMS
Since a couple of weeks I'm part of the AIMS Performance Pro team because of my knowledge on Azure and other related topics. The AIMS performance Pro team (...
The new Azure certification paths from Microsoft
Recently, Microsoft released new certifications and the corresponding learning paths. These certifications are more focused on job profiles. Microsoft also c...
2018 review of MsftPlayground
One of the things I like to do is sharing knowledge with the Community. I started my website in 2008 and last year I noticed that I have been blogging for 10...
Administrating and publishing Power BI resources via Azure DevOps
While Power BI started as a self-service tool, it has become a part of the enterprise reporting tooling. With enterprise reporting strong governance can quic...
Azure DevOps Automation
A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into posit...
The added value of Azure DevOps for your organization
Two weeks ago Microsoft announced Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a name change and rebranding of the product Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The Azure Dev...
AKS (Kubernetes) and no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
A client of my had an error while connecting to different resources within their Kubernetes cluster in Azure (AKS). Kubectl error On the kubectl commands kub...
Kubernetes (AKS) attached to Azure Storage (Files)
Kubernetes (AKS) can be used for many situations. For a client we needed to make files available trough a Kubernetes Pod. The files needed to be shared betwe...
Resource Group deployment via ARM templates
When deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template you have to create a resource group within Azure. To deploy a template via script your script would l...
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 ...
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...
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...
Listing Azure Services within a CSV file
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 scri...
Azure Event Grid with Custom Events
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 great...
Removing the Classis Hybrid Connections from Azure (Azure BizTalk Service)
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 hy...
Restricting access to your Azure Web Application
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 ...
Configure access to a private network for a Azure App Services
On-Premise connections for Azure App Services can be created by using Hybrid Connections. Hybrid connections do not need any development or re-configuration ...
Extensions and Tips for deploying with Azure Resource Templates
Working with Azure Services in different subscriptions means that the Azure Services need to run in different subscriptions. This often occurs when we talk a...
Build 2017 announcements that effect your work
A couple of minutes ago the keynote of Build 2017 ended. The keynote contained a lot of announcements that I was not expecting. IoT Edge Microsoft announced ...
Part 2 – Azure API Application to query the Azure SQL Database
This post is the second in a series of three posts and will help you with the creation of identity pass-through authentication from a client application to A...
Part 1 – Azure SQL Database with Azure Active Directory Authentication
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 ...
Global Azure Bootcamp - Pass-through authentication with an Azure API Application
This weekend my employer Motion10 hosted one of the many Global Azure Bootcamp around the world. Where I presented about API Applications and .Net Core. This...
Pass-Through Authentication with Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL, Azure API and a Console Application
In situations you need to login to an application and use that identity to access an API (pass-through identity) and also get data from Azure SQL Server. Wit...
Azure Function CI – 3. Deploying the Azure Function from the Build within VSTS
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is tota...
Azure Function CI – 2. Create a CI Build for the Azure Function
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally...
Preview of the Policy Management UX
Azure Resource Manager policies provide the ability to manage risks within a Azure environment. To implement this so called policies can be cr...
Azure Function CI – 1. Creating a Pre-Compiled Azure Function
As mentioned in the overview Azure Function provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application, paying only for...
Azure Function CI – Overview
Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application. By using Azure Functions CI you can setup c...
Trace listeners (Logging) with Application Insights
For every application that is build a logging framework needs to be present. Tracing and Application are framework that can be used in almost every situation...
Creating your first Precompiled Azure Function
Since a couple of weeks it is possible to create Precompiled Azure Functions. This enables the use of .NET assemblies containing the function implementation...
Adding your Client IP to the Azure SQL server firewall
One of the first things that need to be done when you create a Azure SQL database is adding the Client IP address to the firewall of the Azure SQL server. By...
Practice for working with Deployment Slots within Azure App Services
When you make use of Azure App Services you can deploy to different deployment slots. You can choose to work with three deployment slots (dev, tst, acc) and...
Azure Resource Templates and Deployment Slots
In some situations you may want to start using Deployment Slots in combination with your Azure App Service. This means you will have separate deployment slot...
Running a Single Instance of a Azure Logic App
In certain scenarios you want to run a Single Instance off a Azure Logic App every time. Scenarios were you need this is when containers are created within y...
Define Azure Resource Manager Policies
Azure Resource Manager policies provide you with the ability to manage risk within you Azure environment. You can write policies to enforce certain situation...
Recommendations on Azure with Azure Advisor
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...
Alerts on Failed Azure Logic Apps
When 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 ...
Using Certificates in Azure App Services
In 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 Ident...
Escape Single Quotes within Azure Resource Template
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...
Azure and Development Resources
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 tha...
Setting the API Definition URL and CORS value with ARM
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 o...
ESP8266 based temperature monitor with Azure IOT
Motion10 hosted a summerschool about Azure IOT. For the summerschool me and my colleagues (Jesse Gorter and Wesley Bakker) created several labs and presentat...
Starting with Azure Resource Templates
Since 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 ...
Azure App Service and Client Certificate Authentication
Azure 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...
Pass trough all SharePoint items from the “Get Items” action in Azure Logic Apps
When constructing a Logic Apps that gets information from a SharePoint list you will use the SharePoint “Get Items” action. This action allows you to get ite...
Loving the Application Map in Application Insights
After being at Build 2016 and hearing about the Application Map functionality in Application Insights, I did not had time to explore this functionality. The ...
Azure Functions and Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft is releasing services in very fast pace. This means you really need to keep up with everything. A few weeks back I read about Azure Functions (expl...
Some facts on Azure Functions
A few weeks ago Azure Functions where released during Build 2016. This really wasn’t announced as a big thing. But if you start looking at what you can do wi...
Connect Logic Apps with Azure Functions
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 ea...
Azure Web Application Fundamentals
This weekend my employer Motion10 hosted one of the many Global Azure Bootcamp around the world. Where I presented about Azure Web Application. This year the...
Securing an API app with an Application Identity - Part 2
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 ...
Installing Azure Stack on a laptop with Windows 10
Since the Azure Stack public preview has been released I had the idea of trying to install it on my corporate laptop. My corporate laptop has the following h...
Securing an API app with an Application Identity–Part 1
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...
Unable to Establish connection with Azure Remote Debugging
Within one of my projects we had problems with attaching the debugger to our Azure Instances. During the the process we would get a model stating that the op...
Managing your Azure Hybrid Connection with PowerShell
When you have a Azure Hybrid Connection setup the wrong way, you can delete the connection trough the UI but then the Hybrid Connection Manager still knows t...
Motion10 hosting one of the Global Azure Bootcamp
My employer Motion10 will be hosting one of the many Global Azure Bootcamp around the world. In April 2013 the first Global Windows Azure Bootcamp was held a...
Adding Azure App Service Application Settings with PowerShell
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 Az...
Azure WebJobs made simple
The last couple of weeks I have been playing around with Office Mix. For those who don’t know Office Mix, Office Mix is a add-in for PowerPoint that is in pr...
Azure Hybrid Connection
Hybrid connection is a component of Azure BizTalk Services. With a Hybrid connection you can easily connect Azure App Services with on-premise services behin...
Deploy your Azure Website with VSTS Build
From VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) your can deploy to a Azure Website directly directly from a build. Setting this up will require a couple of steps. In...
Application Insights configurable instrumentation key
Starting with Application Insights can be done by adding NuGet Packages to your project. In the above screenshot you see two NuGet Packages: Microsoft.Appl...
Application Insights integration in Visual Studio
Application Insights has been around for a while now and after a while I was wondering if there was a integration within Visual Studio. For the readers that ...
HTTPS only for Azure Websites
In some situations you would like your Azure website to only work under HTTPS. By default a Azure website will work under HTTP and HTTPS. Today I was searchi...
Azure DevOps
Shift Left Security with Microsoft Security DevOps (MSDO)
With the new capabilities released add Ignite, you are now even more capable of shifting security checks further to the left. In this article, I explain how ...
Microsoft Defender for DevOps
During Ignite 2022, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender for DevOps. With Microsoft Defender for DevOps, you can discover, monitor, and detect threats in yo...
Building your Azure Policies (Azure DevOps) - Part 2
As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Using multiple repositories within Azure DevOps pipelines
In numerous situations I have seen seen people sharing code from a centralized Azure Repos sending the scripts via email. On every new version they would sen...
Azure Template Specs managed via Azure DevOps with bicep
Azure template spec is a resource type within Azure used for storing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for later use. By using template specs you have...
Running bicep within Azure DevOps Pipelines
During Ignite Microsoft released bicep version 0.3.1. With this version the bicep language is not experimental any more. Some pointer about this version are:
Private Azure DevOps agent pool based the Microsoft Hosted Agents
In Azure DevOps it is possible to create a agent pool that references a Azure virtual machine scale set. This scale set can be based on one of the build in i...
Book: Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions
The last year I have worked with Henry Been to write the book: Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions. Henry has written the largest part of the book were I was...
What can DevOps do for you
Many organizations say they use DevOps, they see this as a methodology just like Scrum and Agile. However, DevOps is not a methodology but more a culture. Th...
Testing ARM Templates in Azure DevOps
Two days Ago I published the post "Testing ARM Templates" that mentioned the ARM-TTK PowerShell Module Microsoft is creating to test ARM templates. After wr...
How I try to keep up with technology
Technology is changing in a very fast pace. If we look at Microsoft technologies like Azure, you see changes every week. Because of this I get a lot of quest...
Meet the specified naming conventions in Azure DevOps Git
Collaborating in a Azure DevOps Git repository with a lot of people could become a chaos regarding branch folders. At the start of a project you can specify ...
Combining SonarQube and Azure DevOps
Code analysis is a best practice in a operating continuous integration pipeline. SonarQube can be used in combination with Azure DevOps. If you do not know S...
Securing applications with the Azure Key Vault and Azure DevOps
When developing applications for Azure security it always one of the items you need to cross of your list. Many security requirements can be solved by embedd...
Trigger a Pipeline from an Azure DevOps Pipeline
In some situations, it can be useful to trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline from a pipeline. Triggering a pipeline can be done via the API and trough PowerShell...
Administrating and publishing Power BI resources via Azure DevOps
While Power BI started as a self-service tool, it has become a part of the enterprise reporting tooling. With enterprise reporting strong governance can quic...
Building and Deploying Azure DevOps extensions with Azure Pipelines
Azure DevOps extensions can be build and deployed by using Azure Pipelines. In the Azure DevOps marketplace there is a extension available that will help us ...
Version number counter for Azure DevOps
This week I released a new extension for Azure Pipelines called Version number counter. With this extension you add the ability to auto increment a version n...
Azure DevOps Automation
A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into posit...
The added value of Azure DevOps for your organization
Two weeks ago Microsoft announced Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a name change and rebranding of the product Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The Azure Dev...
VSTS
Azure DevOps Automation
A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into posit...
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...
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...
Protect your master Branch in VSTS
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 individ...
The Build announcement I got from Build 2017 Day 1
This year is my second year at Build. Most announcement during Build are given on Day 1. This blog post is a summary of announcement that I heard of during m...
Azure Function CI – 3. Deploying the Azure Function from the Build within VSTS
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is tota...
Azure Function CI – 2. Create a CI Build for the Azure Function
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally...
Azure Function CI – 1. Creating a Pre-Compiled Azure Function
As mentioned in the overview Azure Function provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application, paying only for...
Azure Function CI – Overview
Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application. By using Azure Functions CI you can setup c...
Undo Checkout within TFS or VSTS
This post is written as a reminder for myself and for others who keep forgetting. The thing I keep forgetting is where to find the option to undo a check out...
Deploy your Azure Website with VSTS Build
From VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) your can deploy to a Azure Website directly directly from a build. Setting this up will require a couple of steps. In...
Release Management in Visual Studio Team Services
Visual Studio Team Services is the formally know Visual Studio Online. The old name brought a lot of confusion I think the new name will do a lot better. Yes...
Powershell
Building your Azure Policies (GitHub Actions) - Part 3
As written in part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Markdown generation for ARM and PowerShell
After my session at Azure LowLands with the title "You build It, You run It on the Microsoft Platform" a lot of people were interested in a script that I sh...
Function parameters while debugging PowerShell in Visual Studio Code
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 ...
Listing Azure Services within a CSV file
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 scri...
Extensions and Tips for deploying with Azure Resource Templates
Working with Azure Services in different subscriptions means that the Azure Services need to run in different subscriptions. This often occurs when we talk a...
Adding Azure App Service Application Settings with PowerShell
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 Az...
Development Cycles (DevOps) and Office365
Just before the Christmas Holiday’s I wanted to share some insights with the readers of my blog around Development Cycles and Office365. Development Cycles c...
Creating the Release Template that runs after the Build – Part 3
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For thi...
Create a custom component to deploy SharePoint Solutions – Part 2
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This con...
Deploy SharePoint Solutions with Release Management
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configu...
Offline Installation SharePoint 2013
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 n...
Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments thro...
Warm Up Form Based Web Application
Normal warm up scripts for SharePoint open a site object or web object and make a request to that specific site. When you use form based authentication and d...
Load modules by default when opening PowerShell
At the moment we are working a lot with PowerShell in combination with SharePoint. Over time we created a lot of usable functions that were not availible wit...
PowerShell Scripts
During my current project we are using a lot of PowerShell scripts to administrate the environment and make development easier for us. In this post that I wi...
Windows PowerShell command builder
Today I found something interesting on the internet which I think can help everyone who is working with SharePoint. Microsoft has built a Silverlight applic...
DevOps
Microsoft Defender for DevOps
During Ignite 2022, Microsoft released Microsoft Defender for DevOps. With Microsoft Defender for DevOps, you can discover, monitor, and detect threats in yo...
Execute scripts against Azure from GitHub Actions
Within Azure DevOps service connections are used for the authentication against the Azure platform but in GitHub this works a little bit different. Let me ex...
Markdown generation for ARM and PowerShell
After my session at Azure LowLands with the title "You build It, You run It on the Microsoft Platform" a lot of people were interested in a script that I sh...
What can DevOps do for you
Many organizations say they use DevOps, they see this as a methodology just like Scrum and Agile. However, DevOps is not a methodology but more a culture. Th...
On-demand Azure Policy Scan
When moving to a DevOps way of working it is important to have a good set of rules on how to work with software and infrastructure. When looking into Azure ...
The past three months of a technology junkie
The last couple of months I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like because it has been a real roller coaster for me and my family. For some reason we ...
Is it Continuous Deployment or Continuous Delivery
The terms Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery are most of the time mistaken with each other. The abbreviation CD is sometime used for Continuous De...
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...
The Build announcement I got from Build 2017 Day 1
This year is my second year at Build. Most announcement during Build are given on Day 1. This blog post is a summary of announcement that I heard of during m...
Azure Function CI – 3. Deploying the Azure Function from the Build within VSTS
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is tota...
Azure Function CI – 2. Create a CI Build for the Azure Function
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally...
Development Cycles (DevOps) and Office365
Just before the Christmas Holiday’s I wanted to share some insights with the readers of my blog around Development Cycles and Office365. Development Cycles c...
ARM
Azure Template Specs managed via Azure DevOps with bicep
Azure template spec is a resource type within Azure used for storing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for later use. By using template specs you have...
Running bicep within Azure DevOps Pipelines
During Ignite Microsoft released bicep version 0.3.1. With this version the bicep language is not experimental any more. Some pointer about this version are:
The new and shiny - Azure Template Specs
Azure Template specs is a new resource within Azure that is used for saving Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM). With these template specifics you can lat...
Getting started with Project Bicep for Azure ARM
Bicep is at the time of writing an experimental language that you can be used to simplify the writing of ARM templates. Bicep is a so called DSL (Domain Spec...
Managing access control for Logic Apps
In some situations access to the workflows needs to be controlled. This has to be done in some way to make sure only specific people can trigger or see the c...
Testing ARM Templates in Azure DevOps
Two days Ago I published the post "Testing ARM Templates" that mentioned the ARM-TTK PowerShell Module Microsoft is creating to test ARM templates. After wr...
Testing ARM templates
A few weeks ago I was looking at ways how I could test my ARM templates. During my work I create a lot of these templates and it always a lot of work to chec...
Azure DevOps Automation
A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into posit...
Resource Group deployment via ARM templates
When deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template you have to create a resource group within Azure. To deploy a template via script your script would l...
Removing the Classis Hybrid Connections from Azure (Azure BizTalk Service)
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 hy...
Setting the API Definition URL and CORS value with ARM
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 o...
Starting with Azure Resource Templates
Since 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 ...
Deployment
Azure Resource Templates and Deployment Slots
In some situations you may want to start using Deployment Slots in combination with your Azure App Service. This means you will have separate deployment slot...
Starting with Azure Resource Templates
Since 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 ...
Deploy your Azure Website with VSTS Build
From VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) your can deploy to a Azure Website directly directly from a build. Setting this up will require a couple of steps. In...
Creating the Release Template that runs after the Build – Part 3
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For thi...
Create a custom component to deploy SharePoint Solutions – Part 2
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This con...
TFS and SharePoint Builds including Automatic deployments – Part 1
Part 1 of this series will instruct how to configure your build server for building SharePoint projects. In Part 2 we will discuss the automatic deploy optio...
Deploying multiple wsp packages with one installation file
Today the public beta of SharePoint 2010 is released and everyone started blogging about SharePoint 2010. I am still preparing a Virtual Machine because the...
Useful tool for multiple language deployment
For a current project I had to deploy some generated lists (stp templates) on another version of SharePoint (Dutch version). Because I’m a beginning program...
Development
Function parameters while debugging PowerShell in Visual Studio Code
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 ...
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 ...
Pass-Through Authentication with Azure Active Directory, Azure SQL, Azure API and a Console Application
In situations you need to login to an application and use that identity to access an API (pass-through identity) and also get data from Azure SQL Server. Wit...
Escape Single Quotes within Azure Resource Template
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...
Azure and Development Resources
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 tha...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part IV – Installation of the Prerequisites on Windows Server 2012 RC
With the new version of SharePoint in Public Beta (links). It is time to start with the installation of the prerequisites. When you do not already have the ...
CKS - Development Tools Version 2.0
On 17 may a new version of the CKS Developemt tools edition was released. The community kit for SharePoint: Development tools edition is a extension for Vi...
Branding a SharePoint site – Part 1
Within SharePoint and WSS you have the possibility to brand your site. You can do this on several ways: A custom style sheet. A custom theme. I think th...
Windows Server 2012
Event ID 1008 Event log message of the “Perflib” Source
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 Procedur...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part VI – Configuring SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 RC
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 t...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part V – Installation of SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 RC
Now that the prerequisites are done it is time to start the installation of SharePoint 2013. First off we will have to some configuration changes. The first...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part IV – Installation of the Prerequisites on Windows Server 2012 RC
With the new version of SharePoint in Public Beta (links). It is time to start with the installation of the prerequisites. When you do not already have the ...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part III – Installation of SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012 RC
With the new version of SharePoint almost in Public Beta (I have hopes it will be this month) it is time to show how you can install it on the Release Candi...
Do not start Server Manager automatically at Logon – Windows Server 2012
After the installation of the new Windows Server version (Windows Server 2012 RC) it was annoying for me that the “Server Manager” started every time when I...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part II – Installation of Active Directory and DNS Services on Windows Server 2012 RC
6With the new version of SharePoint almost in Public Beta (I have hopes it will be this month) it is time to show how you can install it on the new Release ...
Install SharePoint 2013 Public Beta on Windows Server 2012 RC – Part I – Installation of Windows Server 2012 RC
With the new version of SharePoint almost in Public Beta (I have hopes it will be this month) it is time to show you how you can install it on the new Relea...
ALM
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...
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...
Azure Function CI – 3. Deploying the Azure Function from the Build within VSTS
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is tota...
Customize the Release Management Build template – Part 1
To setup a build in combination with Release Management you need the Release Management build template. This template looks like the default build template b...
Deploy SharePoint Solutions with Release Management
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configu...
Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments thro...
Azure App Services
Run cloud native application anywhere with Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
At the beginning of this year Microsoft released Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes, this enabled you to attach conformant Kubernetes clusters to Azure f...
Configure access to a private network for a Azure App Services
On-Premise connections for Azure App Services can be created by using Hybrid Connections. Hybrid connections do not need any development or re-configuration ...
Part 3 – Console application to call a API with Azure Active Directory Authentication
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 applicat...
Part 2 – Azure API Application to query the Azure SQL Database
This post is the second in a series of three posts and will help you with the creation of identity pass-through authentication from a client application to A...
Using Certificates in Azure App Services
In 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 Ident...
Azure App Service and Client Certificate Authentication
Azure 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...
Unable to Establish connection with Azure Remote Debugging
Within one of my projects we had problems with attaching the debugger to our Azure Instances. During the the process we would get a model stating that the op...
Adding Azure App Service Application Settings with PowerShell
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 Az...
Azure Functions
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/...
Azure Function CI – 3. Deploying the Azure Function from the Build within VSTS
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is tota...
Azure Function CI – 2. Create a CI Build for the Azure Function
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally...
Azure Function CI – 1. Creating a Pre-Compiled Azure Function
As mentioned in the overview Azure Function provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application, paying only for...
Creating your first Precompiled Azure Function
Since a couple of weeks it is possible to create Precompiled Azure Functions. This enables the use of .NET assemblies containing the function implementation...
Azure Functions and Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft is releasing services in very fast pace. This means you really need to keep up with everything. A few weeks back I read about Azure Functions (expl...
Some facts on Azure Functions
A few weeks ago Azure Functions where released during Build 2016. This really wasn’t announced as a big thing. But if you start looking at what you can do wi...
Connect Logic Apps with Azure Functions
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 ea...
Governance
Custom security recommendation within Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers the option to include custom security recommendations. For custom security recommendations you can think of corporate sec...
User-friendly compliance messages for Azure Policy
When resource creation fails because of Azure Policies the error is not always that descriptive and you will have to search for the failure. If you look at t...
Managing the Microsoft Azure cloud is not easy, would a cloud team be useful?
Most organizations start with the Microsoft Azure cloud by experimenting and before they know it, an environment is created that is no longer as transparent ...
Control over a Azure Cloud environment? Create a governance plan!
Control over your cloud environment is great. In order to properly monitor and manage a cloud environment, it is important to draw up a cloud governance plan...
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 ...
Listing Azure Services within a CSV file
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 scri...
Define Azure Resource Manager Policies
Azure Resource Manager policies provide you with the ability to manage risk within you Azure environment. You can write policies to enforce certain situation...
Policy
Default Role Based Access Control on newly created resource groups
Within our company, we have a sponsorship subscription we use for developing / testing purposes. As we heavily use this subscription, we often come into prob...
Building your Azure Policies (GitHub Actions) - Part 3
As written in part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Building your Azure Policies (Azure DevOps) - Part 2
As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deplo...
Building your Azure Policies - Part 1
Azure Policy is a way of enforcing standards and guardrails and assessing resource compliance. In Azure, the compliance dashboard offers an aggregated view t...
User-friendly compliance messages for Azure Policy
When resource creation fails because of Azure Policies the error is not always that descriptive and you will have to search for the failure. If you look at t...
Preview of the Policy Management UX
Azure Resource Manager policies provide the ability to manage risks within a Azure environment. To implement this so called policies can be cr...
Define Azure Resource Manager Policies
Azure Resource Manager policies provide you with the ability to manage risk within you Azure environment. You can write policies to enforce certain situation...
Security
Shift Left Security with Microsoft Security DevOps (MSDO)
With the new capabilities released add Ignite, you are now even more capable of shifting security checks further to the left. In this article, I explain how ...
Managing access control for Logic Apps
In some situations access to the workflows needs to be controlled. This has to be done in some way to make sure only specific people can trigger or see the c...
Protect your master Branch in VSTS
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 individ...
Article in TechNet Magazine
For the Dutch TechNet magazine I wrote an article about the security within SharePoint. This is my first TechNet article and I think it has turned out great...
Handle access denied for application pages
Within SharePoint you have the ability to create custom application pages. Application pages remain in the layouts folder of SharePoint. Each user can acces...
Disabling the MySite link for all your users
Did you ever have a problem with your my site? Well we did! The customer wanted a Citrix webpart on their my site. I did not recommend it but still they wan...
ASP.net
Azure Event Grid with Custom Events
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 great...
.NET Library for quick and easy Twitter integration
A few days ago I wanted to create a solution to automatically tweet new blog posts. Because I did not have enough time to write a custom component to commun...
ASP.NET Checkbox with confirmation message
For one of my assignments I had to create a checkbox that displays a confirmation message when you uncheck a checkbox. I thought I would share my solution w...
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart versus Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart
When I started developing for SharePoint two years ago I was thrown in a big black hole and started to develop webparts by hands on experience. In the first...
ASP.Net Server Controls
In January of this year I wrote a post about creating a virtual earth web part (You can read about it here). I had done this by adding JavaScript to the pag...
ASP:Menu in IE8
Since a few days I have installed Internet Explorer 8 on my computer and I was curious how it would display certain sites. Till a few hours ago everything l...
Release
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...
SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch Date
Today, it is officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the release date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. The RTM of the products they are tryin...
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is Available
A few day’s ago the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 became available. Visual Studio 2010 feels a lot faster and is about 1GB larger then older versi...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Gets New Launch Date
In late 2009 Microsoft added an extra test release to the schedule of Visual Studio 2010. This resulted in a push-back of the launch date of the product. Mi...
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
For some time now I have been following information about SharePoint 14 that finds its way to blogs or news sites. In that time I have found a large amount ...
February Cumulative Update Uber Package
In my post a week ago I announced that the February Cumulative update was available for download but it could only be used by users who had the December Cum...
TFS
Undo Checkout within TFS or VSTS
This post is written as a reminder for myself and for others who keep forgetting. The thing I keep forgetting is where to find the option to undo a check out...
Adjust the ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml build template to work with the BizTalk Deployment Framework
If you want to use the BizTalk Deployment framework in combination with Release Management you need to adjust the default build template that comes with Rele...
Deploy SharePoint Solutions with Release Management
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configu...
TFS and SharePoint Builds including Automatic deployments – Part 1
Part 1 of this series will instruct how to configure your build server for building SharePoint projects. In Part 2 we will discuss the automatic deploy optio...
Login to Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 with another account / from another domain
A few days ago I and my colleague Wesley had a lot of problems installing of Team Foundation Server on Windows Server 2008 with a Separate SQL Server 2008 a...
Team Foundation Server Installation Error: 28938
For the last couple of days my colleague and I have been installing Team Foundation Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 with a separate SQL 2008 and SharePoi...
Release Management
Release Management in Visual Studio Team Services
Visual Studio Team Services is the formally know Visual Studio Online. The old name brought a lot of confusion I think the new name will do a lot better. Yes...
Creating the Release Template that runs after the Build – Part 3
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For thi...
Create a custom component to deploy SharePoint Solutions – Part 2
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This con...
Adjust the ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml build template to work with the BizTalk Deployment Framework
If you want to use the BizTalk Deployment framework in combination with Release Management you need to adjust the default build template that comes with Rele...
Deploy SharePoint Solutions with Release Management
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configu...
Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments thro...
CI
Combining SonarQube and Azure DevOps
Code analysis is a best practice in a operating continuous integration pipeline. SonarQube can be used in combination with Azure DevOps. If you do not know S...
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/...
The Build announcement I got from Build 2017 Day 1
This year is my second year at Build. Most announcement during Build are given on Day 1. This blog post is a summary of announcement that I heard of during m...
Azure Function CI – 2. Create a CI Build for the Azure Function
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally...
Azure Function CI – 1. Creating a Pre-Compiled Azure Function
As mentioned in the overview Azure Function provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application, paying only for...
Azure Function CI – Overview
Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application. By using Azure Functions CI you can setup c...
bicep
Creating a Logic App API Connection that uses the Managed Identity using Bicep
Logic Apps in Azure provides a platform for building workflows that integrate with various services and APIs. When creating Logic Apps, you must often connec...
Export existing Azure resources to Bicep
With the new release of Bicep (v0.4.1124) it is now possible to export existing Azure resources to Bicep code. This means you do not have to export your reso...
Using private repositories for Bicep modules
As of version 0.4.1008 bicep now supports repositories for saving bicep modules. Repositories that are supported at the time of writing this article are:
Azure Template Specs managed via Azure DevOps with bicep
Azure template spec is a resource type within Azure used for storing an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for later use. By using template specs you have...
Running bicep in GitHub Actions
Bicep is a language that is used to simplify the writing of ARM templates. Bicep is a so called DSL (Domain Specific Language) meaning that it is a specific ...
Running bicep within Azure DevOps Pipelines
During Ignite Microsoft released bicep version 0.3.1. With this version the bicep language is not experimental any more. Some pointer about this version are:
Error
Unable to start User Profile Synchronization Service
A few days ago I wrote a post about loading modules in PowerShell by default: “Load modules by default when opening PowerShell”. Today we had to setup a new ...
Event ID 1008 Event log message of the “Perflib” Source
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 Procedur...
Failure in loading assembly
In the application event log I found several errors that were pointing to assemblies that I wasn’t using anymore. The error looks like the message below: Er...
Team Foundation Server Installation Error: 28938
For the last couple of days my colleague and I have been installing Team Foundation Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 with a separate SQL 2008 and SharePoi...
Disabling SharePoint errors (An unexpected error has occurred)
One of the most annoying things I came across when I was developing for SharePoint 2007 is the error: “An unexpected error has occurred”. You can get rid of...
C#
Connecting to the Resource Graph Client via the Resource Graph SDK
In order to retrieve information from Azure Subscriptions someone at a client wanted to use the Resource Graph API. For this they were building an ASP.Net Co...
Forcing a Device Channel
Device channels are a way of using different master pages for different devices. MSDN describes the functionality as followed: “Browsing the web on a ...
Starting a Workflow with CSOM
There are situations were you would like to start a workflow by using code. In one of my last projects there was that kind of situation, in that project we ...
Host-Named Site Collections (Provisioning by Code and in Specific Content Database)
Host-named site collections are the preferred method to deploy sites in SharePoint 2013. Because the Office 365 environment uses host-named site collections...
Retrieve the Friendly URL of a Publishing Page
One of my first projects with SharePoint 2013 is building a SharePoint website. For the website we had to build a functionality that display’s the URL of spe...
API
Part 3 – Console application to call a API with Azure Active Directory Authentication
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 applicat...
Part 2 – Azure API Application to query the Azure SQL Database
This post is the second in a series of three posts and will help you with the creation of identity pass-through authentication from a client application to A...
SharePoint Rest API Handler
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 ...
Securing an API app with an Application Identity - Part 2
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 ...