This tag contains all of my blog posts that directly concern Microsoft Azure.
But what is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft themselves describe it like this:
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/overview/what-is-azure)
Marketing talk aside, Azure offers developers a way to get going fast, and concentrate on the functionality and added value instead of worrying about the infrastructure. Well, worrying about most of it anyway.
For IT Pros, it offers a new can of worms, a huge set of tools to squash those worms, and opportunities to offer a lot of value to their organizations.
For business people, Azure offers big potential savings. And the blockchain. And machine learning. And IoT, of course. It’s the hybrid cloud solution for your modern, blockchain-backed, machine learning -powered workloads running on the intelligent edge.
Does that sound good to you? No? Well, scratch the last paragraph – it’s true, but not as bad as it sounds!
This article explains a couple of ways to fix an issue where after deployment, your Azure App Service suddenly starts throwing an error along the lines of “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.at System.Web.Security.Cryptography.HomogenizingCryptoServiceWrapper.HomogenizeErrors”. The error or the StackTrace doesn’t point to anything helpful (understandably, it’ll point to a StartUp.cs…Continue reading How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service
In this article, I’ll share a simple script for a simple use case: removing blobs from a virtual directory structure in a container in an Azure blob storage account. This should be useful for a case like ours; removing certain directories and subdirectories but not the whole container. But let’s…Continue reading How to selectively remove items from an Azure blob storage container?
Every now and then there comes a time when you need to fiddle with DNS. It’s not that you want to do it, but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. This article explains a convenient way of using PowerShell to apply a change for all A records (these are essentially…Continue reading How to update the TTL for all A records in a zone at once in Azure?
This article explains how to “reactivate” all of your accounts stored in your az account by refreshing your sessions. You might need this if you suddenly run into a script that needs to iterate all of your subscriptions without you being there to sign in to each one of them.…Continue reading How to refresh all Az CLI subscriptions?
This article describes a solution to an age-old question of mine: how can I add an Azure Active Directory object – like a security group – to multiple resource groups at once? I’ve had to do this multiple times, and manual work takes quite a while. And who likes multiple…Continue reading How to add an user or group to multiple Azure resources at once?
This article explains a quick and dirty fix when you get an error somewhat like “ApiNotFound” when you’re deploying an Azure Logic App from a template. This seems to be a very typical hurdle to run into when you’re trying to deploy a PowerAutomate Flow you’ve exported. I guess despite…Continue reading How to fix a Logic App deployment that failed with the error “ApiNotFound”?
This article explains one possible fix to “LinkedAuthorizationFailed” when you’re deploying a Logic App from an Azure Automation template. Maybe it’ll apply to other cases, too – but in my case, it helped me fix a broken template I had exported from Power Automate and was bringing into Logic Apps.…Continue reading How to fix “LinkedAuthorizationFailed” when deploying an Azure Logic App?
