Contents tagged with azure
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"Changing" the secret for a Dataverse connection in Power Apps
For reasons best known to Microsoft, you can't change the secret used to authenticate a Microsoft Dataverse connection using a service principal (If you're not familiar with setting these up there's …
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Using Azure Traffic Manager to divert to a holding page for a site that's not available
In the first post in this series I put together a holding page that uses Azure Storage to write "call me back" details to Table Storage (so it doesn't rely on anything other than Azure), in the …
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Using Azure App Services to host a holding page for a site that's not available
In the first post of this series I put together a .NET Core application that uses Azure Storage (in table form) to keep records of "call me back" requests from customers, so that when the main site …
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Using Azure to provide a holding page for a site that's not available
One of the fantastic things about Azure is how quickly you can spin up, and down, services as and when you need them. In a world where not everything's been migrated to the cloud yet this can be …
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SQL Operations Studio is now Azure Data Studio, with added Azure Resource Explorer
In true Microsoft fashion, SQL Operations Studio has undergone a re-brand and is now Azure Data Studio (you can download it here). Along with the reccent re-brand of Visual Studio Team Services (the …
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Setting an O365 user to have no password expiry via PowerShell
If, like me, you're using Office 365 as your email solution you may have encountered the situation where you don't get emails landing from such things as blog comments because the password has …
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Link Dump
Another collection of odds and ends, of dubious use to anyone but me, but perhaps of interest!
Proper Dependency injection in Azure Functions on function level with scoped services!
A blog post …
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Storing metadata against Azure Storage Blobs
I've known for a while that you can associate aribitrary metadata with Azure Storage Blobs, docs.microsoft.com has Set and retrieve properties and metadata which gives an example of setting …
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Using the Azure Storage Emulator
As I'm gearing up to continue my series of posts on the subject of migrating an application to Azure, one of the things that occured to me was that the existing implementation has unit tests. …
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Migrating an application to Azure - Part 1: Introduction
Way back in the mists of time (ok, 2011 so not exactly the age of the dinosaur!) I built an employee recognition and reward platform for an FTSE 100 company. Why's that even remotely interesting, I …