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How to check Azure App Service OS version, what version of IIS
This is a FAQ on GitHub which has a lot of information about 2016. If you are interested to find out...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 12/07/2017
How to make an Azure App Service HTTPS only
I wrote this article some years ago here “HTTPS only on Azure App Service Web Apps” that explains...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/30/2017
Drag and drop deployment to an Azure App Service, quick, for simple small changes
There are many way to deploy code and files to an Azure App Service, repositories like Visual Studio...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/29/2017
Troubleshooting an Azure App Service backup issue
Here and here "My Backups are failing, Let’s open a support ticket" are some good information about...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/23/2017
Azure Functions and Azure are blowing my mind
I am really starting to like these Azure Functions. Just imagining that I don’t even need a server...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/15/2017
How to access KUDU SCM for an Azure App Service Environment (ASE)
I wrote the following articles about accessing KUDU / SCM on the multi-tenant version of Azure App...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/08/2017
How to delete a VNET from the Azure portal
After writing this article here “Create a VNET and access an Azure VM hosted within it from an App...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 11/02/2017
How to map an Azure App Service Web App virtual directory to Azure Storage Container
OK, so I tricked you…you can’t do what is said in the title, well I better not say you can’t because...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/27/2017
Failed to save Auth settings Easy Auth Azure Authentication
When I tried to configure a a URL into the ALLOWED EXTERNAL REDIRECT URLS text box, as shown in...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/26/2017
Failed to update App Service Plan the sites exceed maximum number of slots
After some testing I wanted to scale down my 5 instances of Standard S3 plan machines and I got this...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/26/2017
500.79 Internal Server Error
I got this exception when I was trying to configure the Azure Active Directory authentication in...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/23/2017
How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu
I wrote this article about running Visual Studio Code on Linux here and wanted to now create a more...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/18/2017
Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code
The plan is to work some with Linux and I have chosen Ubuntu 16.04 LTS because this, AFAIK, is the...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/18/2017
Add a new user to my Azure Subscription
I wanted to add a new user to my subscription and I wanted to make that person an Owner. This is...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/11/2017
What do C# values look like in WinDbg
One of the important areas you need to master when analyzing memory dumps is to recognize patterns...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/11/2017
How to see the cipher suites on an Azure App Service
I wrote an article here about TLS 1.2 which listed out the cipher suite used to negotiate security...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/05/2017
Create an Azure App Service Web App using PowerShell
There are numerous place to find this same example, but while I am ramping up my Azure PowerShell...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 10/02/2017
Using FTPS with Azure App Services
Using FTPS is a very interesting area. I read a lot about it, but can’t really ever get to the...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/27/2017
How to configure log4net on Azure App Service
Although I fully recommend using Application Insights (see here) for monitoring your Azure features,...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/27/2017
Creating a NuGet package for my .NET Standard class library
I successfully created and published my first NuGet package that included a .NET Standard class...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/20/2017
How to install .NET Standard 2.0
The release of .NET Standard has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/20/2017
How to install .NET Core 2.0
The release of .NET Core has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET Core...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/20/2017
A route named '*' is already in the route collection, Azure Web App
I was deploying an ASP.NET Web API to an Azure App Service Web App and I got this error: Server...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/13/2017
Always get "Authorization has been denied for this request." ASP.NET Web API
I was creating an ASP.NET Web API today and when I called one of the Web APIs (/api/values) I got...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/11/2017
How to make an App Setting or Connection String sticky
I wrote an article here which talk about how to make an app setting or connection string sticky to...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/04/2017
Database connection string when swapping between App Servers slots
Consider you have an Azure App Service Web App that handles a large amount of traffic and accesses a...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 09/04/2017
Where did I configure that Azure App Service extension? Where is this charge coming from?
I do a lot on the Azure platform for testing out stuff to see how they work and although I have an...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 08/14/2017
Azure App Service IP Based SSL and SNI Based SSL configuration
25-OCT-2017: If you delete an exisiting binding during the certificate renewal process, then you...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 08/11/2017
Remove Auto Scaling from an Azure App Service using Azure PowerShell
I needed to remove some auto scale settings from one of my App Services using Azure PowerShell so I...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 08/10/2017
Cannot read Failed Request Log, unformatted and unreadable
I often get Failed Request Trace logs via email that when I open them I only see the data, I mean it...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 08/02/2017
How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription
#Azure #AzurePowerShell #AppService #PowerShell If you have multiple Azure Subscriptons, when you...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 08/02/2017
How to change associate an Azure Active Directory to a Subscription
If you made it here, good work! This article is a little out dated as some of the features to...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/27/2017
How to delete an Azure App Service Plan using Azure PowerShell
#Azure #AzurePowerShell #AppService #PowerShell I wrote an article here about what an App Service...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/26/2017
How to configure auto scaling for an Azure App Service with PowerShell
In some cases, there are features which exist on the backend REST APIs which are not yet implemented...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/26/2017
Failed to update App Service plan
I was trying to scale down my Azure App Service Web App and got this error, also shown in Figure 1:...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/25/2017
Mapping a custom naked domain to your Azure App Service
A naked URL means that there is no www or any other sub-domain prefix before the domain name and...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/19/2017
Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio Azure App Service
Azure App Service run within a sandbox that protects your App Service from doing and being harmed,...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/11/2017
Azure Function - take it to the limit, scale it up
Azure Functions are really cool #AzureFunction. I wrote numerous articles about Azure Functions...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/11/2017
Bind a custom domain to your Azure App Service, 2 steps
There are numerous articles about this which are posted here, but I though an update was in order....
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 07/06/2017
Capture a StackOverflowException and make a dump 0xc00000fd
I read in this article that “Starting with the .NET Framework 2.0, you can’t catch a...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/28/2017
ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core SqlException: cannot openserver
I am doing some ASP.NET Core self study and experienced this issue. The thing is that my client IP...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/21/2017
404 when I deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API
When I deployed an ASP.NET Core Web API to my Azure App Service API App I received a 404 Not Found...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/21/2017
ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core error, Login Failed
I was working with the EF NuGet package Microsoft.EntityFramework.Tools.DotNet and executed the...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/21/2017
ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core - ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT
This is another one, Figure 1, that just kind of happened because I dropped my database. Once I...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/21/2017
Changing the maxLogFileSizeKB on an Azure App Service
I wrote this article “Making changes to the applicationHost.config on Azure App Service” here which...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/12/2017
Using CLI 2.0 with the Azure German Cloud
I wrote these articles about the Azure CLI but that was at version 0.10.8 and things have progressed...
Author: benjaminperkins Date: 06/07/2017