Archives
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Restricting access to Azure resources with Virtual Network service endpoints & Firewall
So, there have been a couple of related announcements from the Azure peeps over the past few days:
Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2017
Announcing Virtual Network integration for Azure …
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Learning about Azure
As I alluded to in My "Hit Refresh" moment post, I've been making a concerted effort over the past while to gain a better handle on all the things that Azure has to offer, how they hang together and …
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My "Hit Refresh" moment
This is Darcey, I've chosen a picture of her whipping me with her tail to accompany this post as (a) I like the picture, (b) Jeremiah had a pet picture, so I'm going to treat it as a pre-requisite, …
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Creating a site-to-site VPN between Azure and a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway (USG)
I've recently been steadily working my way through some of the training material available for 70-534 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions), both by watching online training videos on Pluralsight …
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Link Dump
Image Carousel using Twitter Bootstrap and Orchard CMS Projections
This looks like it'll give me the solution I'm after to "beautify" the home page of my site slightly. At the moment it's a fairly …
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You can configure Azure/Office 365 to not require multi-factor authentication from your office
I've been working my way through the Architecting Azure Solutions (70-534): Infrastructure and Networking course on Pluralsight and discovered a useful nugget of information about the way you can …
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If you're sending email via Exchange Web Services, cache the service URL for a while!
In my recent series of posts about sending emails through Office 365 from an Azure Function, triggered by a blob being uploaded to Azure storage, I noted that:
because of the amount of time Office 36 …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Publishing to Azure from Visual Studio 2017
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Sending an email via Office 365
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …
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CsvHelper - a tidy package for working with CSV content
I needed to transform some CSV data recently and my Excel skills are somewhat lacking when it comes to the funky stuff, so I had a hunt around for a solution I could use to run up a quick and dirty …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual Studio 2017 …
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Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded
Parts to this series:
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded (this one)
Creating an Azure function that triggers when a blob is uploaded - Creating and running in Visual …
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Check Azure storage pricing over the period you're going to store the data for
I know this one probably seems obvious, but it didn't really occur to me just how much the "headline" pricing hides the difference in cost between different Azure storage options and models. If you …
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Copying/Moving a file in Azure blob storage
I was looking through the posts on weblogs.asp.net a few days ago and spotted this one, Corrupted File when using DownloadToStream in Azure blob, in which the author does what I do and realises …
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Wouldn't it be nice if the IIS Website bindings window had a default sort
Or, "wouldn't it be nice if the IIS Website bindings window had a default sort that wasn't the order that the bindings were added to the site" to put it another way. I made an oops and created the …
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Excessive whitespace
I was looking through the settings in Firefox earlier today and ended up clicking through to one of the help pages (Firefox's performance settings) which, IMHO, has a bit of excessive whitespace …
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Putting files into Azure blob storage using AzCopy
One of my last blog posts was about copying data into Azure blob storage (specifically local SQL Server backups) and it turns ou that there's a command line app available that wraps up copying files …
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Authenticating Ubiquiti UniFi VPN users against a domain using RADIUS
One of the things that annoyed me about the setup I had when I was using a DrayTek router was that the VPN didn't authenticate using my Active Directory credentials (yes, for reasons, I've got a DC …
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Backing up SQL Server to Azure storage - doing it the long way round
So, as I can't seem to get the baked-in way of backing up to Azure Blob Storage to play ball, I've decided to do it the long way round for now, which isn't the end of the world as it gives me an …
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Backing up SQL Server to Azure storage
I've been looking at using the baked-in backup SQL to Azure blob storage feature to, well, backup some databases and have been thoroughly stumped! :( The SQL I've put together is:
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 …
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Previewing content in Orchard
This is probably very obvious (and it should be - it's a clickable link in the Orchard UI!), but I had to go off and ask Google if there was a way to preview a blog post I'm writing. It turns out …
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Replacing our home WiFi with Ubiquiti UniFi
TL;DR: Ubiquiti UniFi is the single best thing we've ever done for our home network / WiFi!
Up until very recently we've been using an ageing DrayTek 2830 series router, along with the modem …
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Disabling the "System Recovery Options" window in Windows
Raymond Chen over at The Old New thing posted yesterday "Why did my systems reboot into the Recovery Environment and how do I prevent that from happening in the future?" where he explains (a) when/ …
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Deserializing awkward JSON using Json.NET
Aside: I'm never quite sure whether every instance of a word which has a Z in it, that sounds like it could have an S in it, should have an S in it when it's en-gb instead of en-us. In this instance …
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When is ALT-D not ALT-D, when it's en-gb :-(
I've been banging my head against the desk for the past week or so as the most recent Windows 10 Insider builds, 16278 if not before, have had the most frustrating (yes, first world problems!) bug. …
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Using structured data to blog recipes
In my other blog I've been writing up recipes for years now, albeit with varying frequency, with a combination of recipes I've found and tweaked and recipes that I've created from scratch (the latter …