How to fix 403 errors when managing Azure SQL Database from Visual Studio
I was recently trying to manage Azure SQL Databases via Visual Studio in a new Azure subscription and was unable to open the SQL Databases node at all and received the following error message. The text...
View ArticleDeploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 1
As public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure mature it is becoming easier to build deployment architectures that are substantially resilient to faults in cloud platforms that are increasingly...
View ArticleDeploy an Ultra High Availability MVC Web App on Microsoft Azure – Part 2
In the first post in this series we setup our scenario and looked at how we can build out an ultra highly available Azure SQL Database layer for our applications. In this second post we’ll go through...
View ArticleSetting up Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server in Azure
Almost all organisations rely on data, be it in the form of files or databases (SQL, Oracle…). The most challenging aspect of managing data for any organisation is high-availability and disaster...
View ArticleUPDATED: Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using...
Earlier this week I posted this blog post that showed a working example of using a custom Pwned Password FIM/MIM Management Agent to flag a boolean attribute in the MIM Service to indicate whether a...
View ArticleAuto-redirect ADFS 4.0 home realm discovery based on client IP
As I mentioned in my previous post here that I will explain how to auto-redirect the home realm discovery page to an ADFS namespace (claims provider trust) based on client’s IP so here I am. Let’s say...
View ArticleQuerying against an Azure SQL Database using Azure Automation Part 1
What if you wanted to leverage Azure automation to analyse database entries and send some statistics or even reports on a daily or weekly basis? Well why would you want to do that? On demand compute:...
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