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Azure App Service Slot Swap is Hanging or Taking Forever
If your App Service Slot Swap is failing or taking forever, it might be a problem with the slot warmup checks. Here’s how to fix it.
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ASP.NET Core & Azure Easy Auth with Multiple Authentication Providers (Including Development Mode)
I’ve been neck deep in Azure App Authentication (aka. Easy Auth) lately trying to get it to work with ASP.NET Core applications. I wrote a bunch of labs/walk-throughs last week to demonstrate how to make it work. Here are the posts in the Azure Easy Auth series: Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3, Lab 4, […]
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Walkthrough: Part 5, ASP.NET Core Claims-based Security using Azure App Authentication & the /.auth/me Service Endpoint
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fifth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create […]
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Walkthrough: Part 4, Azure App Service Authentication with a Mix of Public and Protected ASP.NET Core MVC Pages
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the fourth post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create […]
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Walkthrough: Part 3, Publish ASP.NET MVC Core Application to Azure Web App
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the third post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create […]
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Walkthrough: Part 2, Configure App Service Authentication for Your Azure Web App
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the second post in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create […]
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Walkthrough: Part 1, Create an Azure Web App Definition in Azure
I’ve been working doing a lot more with Azure Web Apps lately and found that there are some basic things that it’s hard to find information on. So I decided to write some labs. This is the first one in a series. The overall goal of these labs is to teach you how to create […]
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Deploy to Azure from TFS using an Azure Resource Manager Service Endpoint
[TL;DR — You need an Azure Resource Manager Service Endpoint and some values from Azure. There’s a link to a PowerShell script at the bottom of this post that’ll help. You’ll probably still need to read this blog post though. Sorry. I know. Reading is hard.] Deploying from Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure […]
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How to fix “msdeploy.exe failed with return code: 2148734720”
I’m trying to deploy to an Azure AppService using an on-premise build/release agent and Team Foundation Server 2018. This usually isn’t a problem but this time was difficult. Part of the problem is that I’m trying to run a TFS Release from an agent that’s installed on Windows Server Core Build 1709. When I ran […]
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Azure App Service Security with Microsoft Accounts, WebAPIs, and client apps (UWP)
TL;DR: Azure App Services simplifies your life by taking care of security for you. This works great when your app is a web browser app but if you need to access it from a client API app (for example, a Universal Windows Platform app), life can get frustrating and confusing in an instant. In this […]