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I blog very frequently and sometimes the posts contain code snippets. The site template sometimes limits the available real-estate and this can cause certain issues. If there is long text in one line,...
View ArticleAzure App Service: Understanding TLS Mutual Authentication with Web App
I have published 2 posts in the past on Client Certificate authentication. Client Certificate Authentication (Part 1) Client Certificate Authentication (Part 2) In order to enable Client Certificate...
View ArticleClient Certificate Authentication (Part 2)
This is a continuation of my earlier post on Client Certificate Authentication (Part 1) aka TLS Mutual Authentication. Earlier, I had discussed on what Client Certificates are and how they work in...
View ArticleAzure App Service: Using Easy Auth to query Facebook information via Graph API
On 8th August 2016, Facebook ended support FQL (Facebook Query Language). Here is a screenshot of the messaging from their site Facebook Query Language (FQL) Reference So they are encouraging the...
View ArticleAzure App Service: Generating memory dumps on first chance exception using...
In one of my older posts, I have explained on how we can generate memory dumps on first chance exceptions using Debug Diag. In certain scenarios where the users do not have permissions to install...
View ArticleAzure App Service: Manually collect memory dumps
While troubleshooting web application performance issues we are sometimes required to gather memory dumps during the time of the issue. In Azure App Service, we do not have RDP access to the machines....
View ArticleAzure App Service: How to read & parse connection strings via PHP
On Azure App Service, developers have the ability configure the connection strings as key-value pair under App Settings section as shown below: At runtime, Azure App Service retrieves this key-value...
View ArticleAzure App Service: Using cURL for deployment
cURL is a command line tool that can be used to send or receive files. cURL.exe supports numerous protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, LDAP, TELNET, SMTP, POP3 etc. For more information please...
View ArticleAzure App Service: How to connect to the Kudu site of a specific instance
Every Azure Web App has an associated ‘scm’ service site, which runs Kudu and other Site Extensions. OVERVIEW: Kudu site can be accessed using either of these credentials Single Sign-on User-level...
View ArticleAzure Web Apps: How to retrieve user email in the claim when using Microsoft...
App Service Authentication/Authorization also known as Easy Auth is one of the widely used feature in Azure App Service. It reduces the burden on the developers and provides a way for the application...
View ArticleAZURE REST API & PowerShell: Retrieve Cloud Service Configuration
Recently I was working on an issue where we had to retrieve PaaS instance configuration details like the RDP, OS Family, Reserved IP etc. Typically this is present in the .cscfg file of a Cloud...
View ArticleClient Certificate Authentication
SSL/TLS certificates are commonly used for both encryption and identification of the parties. In this blog post, I'll be describing Client Certificate Authentication in brief. Client Certificate...
View ArticleWinDBG - Modifying icons to identify 32/64 bit debuggers
This article is not very technical in nature. Its purpose is to simplify an administrative task. Sharing this in case someone finds it useful.I use WinDBG for debugging memory dumps on a daily basis....
View ArticlePOODLE Vulnerability: Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption
INTRODUCTIONPOODLE abbreviates to Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. This vulnerability was discovered by Bodo Möller, Thai Duong& Krzysztof Kotowicz from the GOOGLE security team and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Web Site: Connect to your site via FTP and upload/download files
In this post I will describe on how to connect to the Azure Web Sites via FTP using FileZilla as the client. The readers are free to choose their FTP client Download publishsettings file from Azure...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: Services availability by region
While Microsoft Azure continues to enhance the services it provides it is also expanding its footprint in various geographical regions. Currently Azure provides its services in 4 continents (11...
View ArticleWEBINAR: Developer Live Series
Developer Live is an initiative started by the "Developer Tools" Support team in Microsoft Support where we present sessions on various developer technologies like Visual Studio 2013, BizTalk Server,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Web Sites: Deploying wordpress to a virtual directory within...
Microsoft Azure Web Sites allows you to have a virtual directory created within the site. There are many advantages to this. Consider a scenario where you your org's site is deployed to root...
View ArticleSSL Diagnostics for IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003)
SSL Diagnostics tool for Windows Server 2003 is no longer available for download on TechNet. I had to ping my peers to who had a copy of the tool which they had downloaded earlier.Main stream support...
View ArticleWindows Azure Web Sites: File upload limit for PHP sites hosted on WAWS
In my previous post I discussed about .user.ini file and how it is useful in WAWS. In today’s post I will address the issue of increasing the limit of the file size to a PHP site hosted on WAWS using...
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