Learn how to use Azure RBAC to connect to Cosmos DB and increase the security of your application by using Azure Managed Identities. Afew months ago, the Azure Cosmos DB team released a new feature that enables developers to use Azure principals (AAD users, service principals etc.) and Azure RBAC to connect to the database… READ MORE
Introduction As development teams implement more and more Infrastructure as Code (IaC) leveraging Azure DevOps(ADO) there is a need for to ADO tasks that integrate easily and help improve the software development process. This post will specifically focus on the Azure DevOps Terraform Task The Problem With growth in popularity on Azure DevOps Microsoft Hosted Agents we need… READ MORE
Use YAML to define the releases of your environments When setting up continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) you always need to manage different environments for your project. Depending on your needs you will have at least 3 environments to drive your project correctly,for instance: Development Staging Production The development (Dev) environment will be… READ MORE
If you´re using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) (which of course is a pre-requisite to run Microsoft 365 at all, this blog post is for you! Here I´ll list my “Top 8” when it comes to security related issues you need to keep under close guard! Worst case scenario is of course that a Threat… READ MORE
When it comes to Azure, Azure Active Directory (AAD) is usually one of the easiest services to spin up quickly. Overall, integration into the IAM world of Azure is usually a fast path if a customer adopts Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). Even before I became full-time Azure, I spent quite a bit of time… READ MORE
In this post, let’s have a look at how to send user Notifications using Azure Functions SignalR Service output binding. I already have an Azure SignalR Service and Azure Function setup. My client app is an Angular application. In my Azure Function, I have the Negotiate function as follows. public static class NegotiateFunction { [FunctionName(FunctionNames.Negotiate)] public static SignalRConnectionInfo Run( [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, “get”, “post”, Route = null)] HttpRequest request, [SignalRConnectionInfo( HubName = “%SignalR_HubName%”, UserId = “{headers.x-application-user-id}”, ConnectionStringSetting = “SignalR_ConnectionString”)] SignalRConnectionInfo connectionInfo)… READ MORE
In this webinar Mihai Tataran from Avaelgo in Romania explores the methodologies (based on Well Architected Framework and Cloud Native) and technologies (PaaS, Microservices, AKS, etc.) used nowadays to migrate Enterprise Applications to Azure. The focus will be on WHY to move to Azure and what to gain from this move and based on those… READ MORE
A couple of weeks ago a new case exploded around Azure virtual machines (Azure VM), and on-premises as well, and specifically those Linux with Open Management Infrastructures on board. In deep there are three Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-38645, CVE-2021-38649, CVE-2021-38648) and one unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-38647). Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) is an open-source Web-Based Enterprise… READ MORE
In this blog post I will give a short overview how to downgrade the Microsoft Teams module in your Azure Automation account. Why you should do this? Assume you have developed a solution for some Microsoft Teams automations. You are using the Teams PowerShell module in some of your scripts. After a few months running… READ MORE
Orginal blog post by Gérald Barré can be found here Infinite scrolling is a way to automatically loads data when you reach the end of the page. It allows you to continue scrolling indefinitely. The method is often used in social media feeds or blogs. In this post, we’ll create a Blazor component that you… READ MORE
