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Create a Staging Slot for Migrated Azure Mobile Service
When you Migrate your Existing Azure Mobile Service to an App Service you may want to take advantage of the slots available to you and create a Staging (and other) slot to test you code in. This...
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Manually Attach a Debugger to Azure Web Apps
For various reasons you may have difficulty attaching your debugger to an Azure Web App. This quick blog will show you a method that may work for you if you get into this situation. I will NOT...
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Azure Mobile Apps–How to remove the notification hub and get the wizard back
I noticed that you cannot change the notification hub in the UI. There is a simple workaround (it will be fixed by the way). Here is a picture of what I mean: Run this powershell script from the Azure...
View ArticleHow to Add Custom Domains to Azure Web Apps Using Powershell
Just another quicky post: If you need to add a custom domain to an Azure Web App you can use Powershell. Powershell does the same verification that the UI does and is just another way to accomplish...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Retrieving Certificates in Azure App Services
You can upload and use Certificates securely in your Azure App Service (Azure Web App, Azure Mobile App etc… ). If you are having trouble, here are some basic troubleshooting steps. Example error:...
View ArticleAzure Mobile Service Creation fails "this name is already in use"
Just a quick blog on this… Problem You cannot create an Azure Mobile Service. You enter a unique name when creating the Mobile Service but get an error: “this name is already in use” and a red...
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Easy tables, Easy APIs error message ‘Unsupported Service’
Overview When you try to access or create Easy tables or Easy APIs in Azure App Services or Azure Mobile Apps you may get this error message in the portal: Unsupported service. Cause Easy tables and...
View ArticleHow to deny HTTP methods (or verbs) in Azure Web Apps
If you want to deny HTTP methods or verbs in Azure Web Apps you can do this be changing your web.config file. Add the following or create the following sections if they do not exist in your...
View ArticleExecute Transactions from Azure Mobile App API (node.js)
Using the Azure Mobile App API interface (like: https://mymobileapp.azurewebsites.net/api/doTransActionStuff ) with a node.js backend, I found documentation around executing SQL Transactions a little...
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Automating EasyTables for Azure Mobile Apps
You could use the Azure CLI to create Azure Mobile Service tables for the node.js backend. You can no longer do this but there is a much easier solution. You can simply drop a .json file in the...
View ArticleRun an async task in a console app and return a result
I had someone ask how to run an async task in Main of a console app. Yes there are different ways to do it and this is just one! using System; using System.Net.Http; using System.Threading.Tasks;...
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How to use Fiddler to Debug Azure App Service issues (with authentication)
Sometimes it is difficult to isolate Azure App Service issues to determine is the problem is the client or server. You can remove the client easily using a tool like Fiddler or Postman however is you...
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How to use Fiddler to Debug Azure App Service issues (with authentication)
Sometimes it is difficult to isolate Azure App Service issues to determine is the problem is the client or server. You can remove the client easily using a tool like Fiddler or Postman however is you...
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How to get a full memory dump in Azure App Services
There are a ton of blogs on getting full memory dumps but some get complicated. Note then when you create a full memory dump it will have the effect of pausing your web app so use this judiciously!...
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Azure Traffic Manager probe degraded due to 401 from Azure Web App
Symptom Your Azure Web App (or any Azure App Service) has authentication enabled but you want to use Traffic Manager. Since the probe returns the HTTP status code 401, the endpoint is considered...
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Cannot read property ‘listRegistrationsByTag’ of undefined’ (Azure App Services)
Situation: You are creating a Mobile App or Azure App Services and setting up the push notifications for the first time Problem: Calling Register or RegisterAsync in the client code can result in a 400...
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Accessing Azure App Services using Azure AD Bearer token
Overview Here are some simplified instructions on how to setup and use Azure Active Directory authentication for Azure App Services and code that will allow an application to use a Bearer Token to...
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Accessing Azure App Services using Azure AD Bearer token
Overview Here are some simplified instructions on how to setup and use Azure Active Directory authentication for a client Azure App Services application and code that will allow a client application to...
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Problem adding Push Notification Hub to Azure App Service Slot
Overview You can add Push Notification Hubs to your Azure Web App, Azure Api App etc… (all Azure App Services). If you try to use the portal to add Push (a Notification Hub) to a Slot however this...
View ArticleAzure Active Directory “Can’t access the account” Account Recovery–Where does...
Overview If you are not using the Self-Serve option of Azure Active Directory premium, an email is sent to unblock the user account. Where does that email come from? I could not find it documented...
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