Sunday, February 28, 2016

Properly invoking scheduled WebJobs

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Recently we've found the need to start using Scheduled Azure WebJobs. However, the examples out there are all gargbage, even in the case...

Continuous Delivery of Azure Web Services

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See this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-continuous-delivery/
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Debugging Azure web apps on localhost

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To get this working, you need to have an app registered with your localhost app root registered for the redirect URI and login URI. Here...

Using adal.js and getting error AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID '....'

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It turns out that you have to actually go in and give your javascript web client permissions to access the web api application in the Azure ...

Using adal.js and getting error AADSTS70005: response_type="token" not supported

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I've recently started using adal.js with OData in an AngularJS 1.5 application and been getting this error with attempting to connect my...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Getting CORS requests working in Web API 2

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I've just recently started playing with using adal.js to connect to Azure Active Directory for authentication so that I can set up an An...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Getting the Active Directory cmdlets (for scripted and remote management of your Windows Server machines)

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To get the cmdlets, you'll need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools, available here . Alternatively, you can follow the ...
Monday, February 08, 2016

How to move a shelveset from one branch to another in TFS

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You're going to have to start by installing the TFS PowerTools for TFS 2013 (or whatever version is appropriate for you). Once you have ...
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...