Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) are an awesome solution available on Azure, providing autoscale capabilities and elasticity for your application. I was recently working with a customer who… Read More
When executing Powershell script, there could be slowness or hang issue. In order to solve this kind of problems, what can we do? Ideally, we can just add more log and run the script again t… Read More
PowerShell is a powerful task automation tool from Microsoft. With Azure PowerShell cmdlets, you can write PowerShell scripts to automate various Azure-related tasks. It would be quite nice… Read More
In the previous two posts, Automation Part 1 and Part 2, we talked about how to easily bring PowerShell into NAV.
Based on the applicability and interest shown so far we wanted to continue o… Read More
From my experience one of the situation that most scares anyone administering a WFM Farm is changing/update the certificates.
In fact, there is no reason for that fear because the process is… Read More
Available this week there is a new simplified and optimized storage option for your Azure virtual machine called managed disks.
There are several advantages of managed disks vs… Read More
A few weeks ago, I decided that now was the time to convert my BingMaps extension into a “real” extension.
A Dynamics 365 for Financials App, which I could add to AppSource.
In o… Read More
With each version of Microsoft Windows Server comes a new version of Internet Information Services (IIS). With the recent release of Windows Server 2016 comes IIS version 10. Bef… Read More
Heute gibt es den ersten deutschsprachigen Blogartikel zum Thema Microsoft Dynamics NAV Upgrade Tipps & Tricks.
Die vorherigen beiden Blogartikel zum Thema Upgrade Tipps & Tricks 1 u… Read More
There are abundant sample for executing Text Analytics Cognitive Services API from C# and other languages like node.js. While searching, I did not find any examples of consuming Text Analyti… Read More
Hello, my name is Stefano Altamura and I’m an Italian PFE dedicated to SQL Server and Data Insights.
In my first post I want to talk about an approach that I often use to better unders… Read More
Although I really prefer GUIs over scripts, I still find myself needing to help others resolve scripting issues. I recently needed to help find the way to scale an Azure App Service We… Read More
If you have not already reviewed my other articles on using IIS on Nano, then you might want to take a look at them. Just so you know the perspective I am coming from and the context i… Read More
If you have not already reviewed my other articles on using IIS on Nano, then you might want to take a look at them. Just so you know the perspective I am coming from and the context i… Read More
Co-Written by John R. Spinella & Daniel Setlock
We had a requirement at a customer to provide unified Global Navigation across their SharePoint 2013 farm, ideally that was fed through th… Read More
Many of us already know the story with the 5,000 item limit with lists/libraries and some strategies to work around this limitation.
A lot of administrators when faced with the familiar &ldq… Read More
The June update for Developer Preview is now live! We’ve had a month with new features and a lot of time spent on improving quality, especially trying to iron out the bugs you have sub… Read More
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 CU 20 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 CU 7, the PowerShell cmdlet New-NavCrmTable has been enhanced with 3 changed or added parameters:
AuthenticationType
Ve… Read More
As the author of a few packages on nuget.org I often find myself needing to know if/when any of the dependencies of my packages are updated. Since nuget doesn't (readily) have an RSS feed … Read More
Symptom:
If you lost your admin account password, or you need to change the password for any reason follow this article to reset your admin account password.
Resolution:
Option 1: Using Azur… Read More
#Azure #AzurePowerShell #AppService #PowerShell
I wrote an article here about what an App Service Plan is. In simple terms it is the Virtual Machine that is running your web sites.&nbs… Read More
Recently, when I was working with one of our customers, I wanted to ask him to enable Verbose logging for certain SharePoint log categories. Normally, this is easy using the UI (Central… Read More
#Azure #AzurePowerShell #AppService #PowerShell
If you have multiple Azure Subscriptons, when you login you get a default subscription set, so if you try and take any actions on a feature in… Read More
One of the ways to find and restore a database from a Long Term Retention backup is to use the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
If Azure PowerShell is news to you, you can get started at https… Read More
Working across various tenants programmatically in Azure AD could be relatively complex. Before even writing a script to do such operations, one must be very clear about a few concepts about… Read More
Working with PowerShell I often find myself doing demos which require me to have some form of credentials or other sensitive data. In the past I've used really generic passwords which… Read More
Analysis Services has been progressing day-by-day with new exciting features and there is an ask from the users to automate the Azure Analysis Services Processing. There are few ways which… Read More
I wrote an article here which talk about how to make an app setting or connection string sticky to the slot. You can make the settings stick using Azure PowerShell.
Here are the Azure… Read More
There are numerous place to find this same example, but while I am ramping up my Azure PowerShell #Azure #AzurePowerShell #PowerShell skills, I though I’d go ahead and document it up s… Read More
I wrote an article here about TLS 1.2 which listed out the cipher suite used to negotiate security settings (encryption) between a client and server via a Network Monitor trace. You ca… Read More
Ever wondered how the Microsoft guys code their powershell CMDLets? Ever wanted to take a peek at the implementation of a Powershell command? "Then take the red pill, stay in wonderland and… Read More
Even though it's not a recommend configuration for our customers (in terms of spam filtering), some customers of Office 365 route their email through a competing spam filtering service in t… Read More
This article has most to do with #AzureGermany #GermanCloud however the approach can be used in all Azure platforms.
The point here is that there are numerous steps one must take in order to… Read More
What does upgrading databases have in common with creating new databases in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018? They do not contain symbols. More precisely, when upgrading a database from an older… Read More
Use these Azure PowerShell cmdlets:
New-AzureRmWebAppBackup
Restore-AzureRmWebAppBackup
Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey
New-AzureStorageContainerSASToken
Don’t forget that this is open so… Read More
As part of the Azure Database Migration Service (Azure DMS) Public Preview, we have released a PowerShell library to automate bulk database migrations from SQL Server to SQL Azure Database… Read More
You can use the Get-UserPhoto cmdlet to view information about the user photos feature that allows users to associate a picture with their account. User photos appear in on-premises and clou… Read More
The Azure Database Migration Service is a fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure Data platforms with minimal downtime. For Azure… Read More
A bit of history
When you talk about Cloud Computing, you cannot avoid talking about networking, it is the glue that maintain everything together, and permit users to access their resources… Read More
2018.03.23: (This is a reboot of a previous post. I revised the title, script, and photos a bit.)
I was working on a support case recently when it was brought to my attention that this cmdle… Read More
A common scenario in web application development is a frontend web application accessing some backend API. The backend API may provide an interface to some shared business system or database… Read More
It could be considered quite a typical request to integrate a custom supplemental table (Dynamics 365 for Sales Lookup table) in Dynamics NAV when dealing with integration projects. The scop… Read More
There may be a case when you might want to use Get-CECostAndUsage Cmdlet, however I thought it might be helpful to document some examples. The AWS documentation doesn't display any example… Read More
Three years ago, I started working with a big Microsoft partner on moving infrastructure and services into Azure. At that time, it was not possible to implement all the required functionalit… Read More
Previously Service Bus namespaces could contain Queues/Topics, Event Hubs, Relays, or Notification Hubs. You may still be affected by the ACS deprecation if you are using an older namespace… Read More
In continuation of the previous blog on needing to provide the server name in your username when connecting, there are other scenarios and new features where this will need to be taken into… Read More
In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server database and ends with a Power BI dashboard. The pipeline can be fully automated so that u… Read More
Here is a quick way to terminate w3wp.exe process in Azure App Service Website without stopping the whole website.
Note : Azure AppService website can run on multiple instances and there i… Read More
Hi,
As you will have seen from Alex Simon's announcement yet another great Azure AD public preview has landed!
"Azure AD Password Protection and Smart Lockout" will provide further protectio… Read More
How to scale out Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises
In this post I’m going to explain how to scale out Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises by adding n… Read More
I wrote a few articles that discuss how and or why you would need to know the apiVerion api-version when calling Azure REST APIs or making a deployment with an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) t… Read More
This article is the sequel to Swooping into SharePoint Site Designs, in which I related my experience working behind the scenes on the world's first SharePoint reality show! This time I… Read More
Now we are able to use the sequencer using PowerShell cmdlets, we can take this a step further and automate more of the process
I was visiting a company a while ago, and the person responsib… Read More
(installation instructions at bottom)
There are a number of cool scripts that I’ve collected, borrowed, and written in my travels as a SCOM field engineer and PowerShell enthusiast. I… Read More
The scenarios in which you can and cannot move an Azure App Service are nicely documented here “App Service limitations”. I also wrote an article about this as well here &l… Read More
Introduction
This post is to help users be able to assign administrative roles to Enterprise Applications/Service Principals so that they can perform duties that would otherwise require a us… Read More
Connecting to the Auto Sequencer VM can be done using the Connect-AppVSequencerVM cmdlet
If you want to use a remote desktop connection to the machine, or just open it up from hyper-V, you'… Read More
Introduction
This post is meant to go over the issue when the Azure Active Directory Application Registration delete button is grayed out. This issue could occur for a few reasons, and this… Read More
Azure Security Kit aka AzSK is a framework that is used internally by Microsoft to control & govern their Azure Subscriptions. While some features are overlapping with Azure Securi… Read More