There are several ways which are causing the an azure vm to be not accessible any more. This can be a blocking software (e.g. netlimiter) or a misconfigured firewall. To still access the vm we need to run command via powershell. This is how this can be achieved Option 1: Run a powershell command In […]
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We want to manage secrets from within a portal developed azure function in c#. In the following we develop a function, which is able to save / update a secret into a keyvault This post was inspired by https://richardswinbank.net/adf/access_google_analytics_with_azure_data_factory Prerequisits We first create a resource group (here keyvaulttest) and within this 3 resources– a keyvault
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The error message retrieved is this: Regular login did not help. Digging further this shows this error already in the Azure CLI So what required was a relogin, although az still seems to work as normal
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In most cases the service connections in Azure DevOps are created in the mode automatic (the Azure DevOps default). Strange enough there is (currently) no option in the UI to set a new credential once it’s expired. The only solution in the UI is to create a new one and delete the old one. The
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With a customer I have today seen the first time that there is a feature of custom message banners in Azure DevOps. This can not be set via the UI but is a command line only option. Documentation can be found here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/settings/manage-banners
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Since long it was complicated to get the last login timestamp of all users from azure. With the introduction of MS Graph for Powershell this has changed partly. For this to work it is expected that the Powershell 7.1 is installed and started with pwsh.exe
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Beside the normal project file based secrets Azure Function solution have another way of configuring user secrets.The project file contains the following property: The UserSecretsId can be found as directory name with a secrets.json file%appdata%\Microsoft\UserSecrets\e49ded1f-262d-428b-81bb-3fd6941e1261´\secrets.jsonThis contains the typical settings as else be found in local.settings.json: In addition there is also an option to open it
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Sometimes there is a situation where we need to add users to an Azure Tenant, which do not have an option to receive an email. This is typically the case when we use Admin-/Service Accounts. This can also happen if the mail domain and the login account does not match. When we send such users
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The quickest way how to deploy wordpress including an MySQL database for free is via a simple template https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/resources/templates/wordpress-app-service-mysql-inapp/
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