Friday, January 22, 2016

Retrieving the list of Service Principals in your Azure subscription(s)

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Recently I found that I needed to grant certain users permissions in my applications, specifically I needed to put Service Principals into g...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Enabling manipulation of Azure Active Directory groups through Web Applications via the Azure Graph SDK

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In your application(s) (plural if you're using a web / native application delegating to a Web Services API which is doing the actual wor...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Getting the SQL Server PowerShell tools

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They're apparently not that easy to find. The SQL Server PowerShell Tools come as part of the SQL Server Feature Pack for their respecti...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Querying PowerShell for module and cmdlet information

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I've recently realized that it's of incredible benefit to start designing our systems such that they're open and easily queryabl...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Accessing TFS via PowerShell

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I'm ashamed to admit that only today did I find out that there are PowerShell cmdlets for TFS. You can load them into a PowerShell ses...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

AADSTS90093: User cannot consent to web app requesting user impersonation as an app permission.

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According to the Azure Graph API team's blog, they've changed the way permissions are handled in Azure AD-authenticating apps . Th...
Monday, October 05, 2015

SqlPackage.exe fails to deploy to Azure with error "The database platform service with type Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.Sql.SqlAzureV12DatabaseSchemaProvider is not valid."

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I've recently started trying to deploy to one of my own databases in Azure using SqlPackage.exe. I've used it numerous times at work...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Setting up continuous Webjobs in Azure

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First things first: you need to properly setup your dashboard: This means that in the 'Application settings' area of the panel for...
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...