Thursday, August 27, 2015

Setting up delegated authentication between web apps in Azure Active Directory - quirks

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When setting up your Azure App ID for your web apps, it's extremely important that you follow the recommended format of "https://...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Using ADAL in Javascript to enable use of Azure Active Directory from an AngularJS SPA

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Check this out, apparently it came out last fall in Azure: http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2014/10/28/adal-javascript-and-angularjs-deep...

Enabling group membership claims in delegated tokens in Azure Active Directory

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In your application manifest, add the following to the root object: {    ....   "groupMembershipClaims": "All",    ...

Fixing redirect loops in Azure web apps that use Azure Active Directory for authentication

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We've recently been using Azure Active Directory to handle authentication for a bunch of our Line-Of-Business applications that we'r...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Parameterizing ApplicationInsights.config

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I've been working on a lot of web applications in Azure recently, and we're using Application Insights to analyze logs and instrumen...
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Creating users in a SQL Azure database

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... is not as straight forward as you would think. It has some slightly different requirements for syntax than what you'd normally use t...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Logging your application with App Insights instead of Windows Azure Diagnostics

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We've recently started deploying applications to Microsoft Azure. Unfortunately, we don't use Cloud Apps for our web apps, and inste...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Using the Azure Key Vault: an experiment

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So, I've found this article on MSDN about how to use the Azure Key Vault for storing secrets, e.g. encryption keys. Let's see how i...

A really quick note about deploying SQL Server .dacpac files to SQL Azure

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When you're using SqlPackage.exe to deploy a .dacpac to Azure, you must have access to the 'master' table in order for the tool ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Debugging database deployments with MSDeploy and SqlPackage

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I recently had problems deploying a database to Azure, and thanks to this article , I now know why. The best part of this experience is that...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Adding extra files to your MSDeploy web package with MSBuild

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I've recently started getting much more in depth with Azure. I've ported some web apps up into Azure, and now I need WebJobs. I'...
Monday, August 03, 2015

My website doesn't accept my Active Directory credentials and just keeps prompting me over and over. Or if it's Chrome, just gives me a middle finger straight up.

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Recently, I've been having the problem of trying to reach some of the internal applications that my company develops that uses Windows A...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Bitten by IIS, or lack thereof

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Here at the office, we build a number of web applications. I recently started refactoring one such application to change and improve how we ...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

A problem with redirect loops in IIS (8.5) with ASP.NET MVC 5 (and Identity)

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Ever see something like this ? http://localhost:80/MyApp/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyApp%2FAccount%2FLogin%3FReturnUrl%3D%252FMyApp%252FA...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Getting started with Azure in PowerShell

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As it turns out, Azure has a ton of cmdlets available in the PowerShell command line to help you quickly and easily manage aspects of Azure....
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Getting access to roles and group claims in Azure AD using the Graph API

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Check this link out. It contains a tutorial on how to get Roles and Groups in Azure AD, so that you can have a single code-base for checkin...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Implementing delegated authentication from an Azure MVC web app to an Azure Web API web service

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Follow the information on this tutorial . Contained within that link, is this tutorial on authenticating a web app with delegated user iden...

Authenticating users on an Azure web site (MVC) using Azure Active Directory (AAD)

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Follow this guide provided on Github . It provides all of the information you need to enable the simplest form of Azure AD authentication in...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Creating an Intranet MVC 5 application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate Intranet Web API 2 application also using Windows Authentication

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Recently I wanted to create an Intranet MVC application using Windows Authentication that connects to a separate, pre-existing Intranet Web ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

A little gotcha with the Microsoft Task Parallel Library (TPL) Dataflow library

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I've recently started using the Microsoft TPL Dataflow library in order to help improve the performance of some of our product's sch...