123 posts

• Aug 25, 2025 How to populate Azure Storage Accounts with demo data
• Oct 20, 2023 Frameworks to strategically improve your cybersecurity
• Aug 24, 2023 Celebrating 200 episodes of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast
• Dec 16, 2022 Reading e-mails with Microsoft Graph using .NET
• Dec 13, 2022 A short recap of ESPC 2022
• Dec 1, 2022 Build sustainable solutions on Azure and save money
• Oct 27, 2022 Favorite security-focused open-source workbooks for Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel
• May 13, 2022 Recommended books about Azure security!
• May 11, 2022 Use the Resource Explorer from the Azure Portal
• Apr 27, 2022 Top 3 favorite capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Apr 21, 2022 Estimating the real cost of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Feb 22, 2022 Generate Bicep templates from existing Azure resources with VS Code
• Feb 18, 2022 Understanding Azure Log Analytics query auditing
• Feb 9, 2022 Track your Secure Score over time in Azure
• Feb 1, 2022 Using the Azure Load Testing service
• Jan 24, 2022 Get the Container Instances usage in an Azure subscription
• Dec 22, 2021 Create Azure Monitor Alert Rules with Azure Bicep
• Nov 1, 2021 Quickly discover any expiring certificates for Azure App Services
• Sep 1, 2021 Deep-linking Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights queries
• Aug 5, 2021 Enforce authentication when sending Application Insights telemetry
• May 26, 2021 Visualize Log Analytics data ingestion using Microsoft Sentinel
• May 21, 2021 Create Azure DevOps or GitHub bugs from Azure Monitor logs
• May 18, 2021 Discover sensitive Key Vault operations with Microsoft Sentinel
• Apr 10, 2021 Solution: Unable to find .deps.json when running .NET 5 tests in Azure DevOps
• Mar 23, 2021 Getting started with Azure Bicep
• Mar 18, 2021 Backing up all Azure Key Vault Secrets, Keys, and Certificates
• Mar 8, 2021 Excluding failing dependencies from Application Insights logging
• Feb 12, 2021 Securing Microsoft Teams
• Jan 26, 2021 Querying data from multiple Application Insights instances
• Jan 22, 2021 Upgrade Application Insights to Workspace-based Resource Mode from Classic
• Dec 11, 2020 Azure App Service tips: Increase reliability with the Auto-Healing features
• Dec 10, 2020 Azure App Service tips: Enable the Health-Check capabilities
• Dec 10, 2020 Introducing the LogAnalytics.Client NuGet for .NET Core
• Nov 5, 2020 Purging container images from Azure Container Registry
• Oct 9, 2020 Passing AZ-500: Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Sep 22, 2020 Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions for Azure
• Sep 17, 2020 Discover issues with Azure Functions and App Service using Application Insights
• Aug 24, 2020 Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid
• Jul 20, 2020 Use Application Insights for Worker Service applications in .NET Core console apps, containers, and any non-HTTP apps
• Jul 13, 2020 Create a custom Azure Security Center recommendation with Azure Policy
• Jul 8, 2020 Programmatically create Azure Container Instances and connect a Managed Identity
• Jul 6, 2020 Programmatically create Azure Container Instances in an existing Virtual Network
• Jul 3, 2020 Use Azure App Service Diagnostics - Improve performance, best practices, security and more.
• Jun 30, 2020 Solving ASP.NET Core running on Azure App Service causing 500.30 ANCM In-Process Start Failure
• Jun 25, 2020 I am giving away consulting advice for Azure
• Jun 24, 2020 Understanding Azure Policies with Visual Studio Code
• Jun 12, 2020 Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services
• May 29, 2020 Configuring Publisher Verification in Azure Active Directory
• May 28, 2020 Using Azure Application Change Analysis to discover configuration changes in Azure services
• May 20, 2020 ASP.NET Core Blazor with SignalR breaks when used with Cloudflare's HTML minification
• May 11, 2020 Using the Azure Resource Graph to improve your Azure Governance game
• May 5, 2020 Code analysis tools for Azure developers coding in .NET Core
• Apr 28, 2020 Thoughts on Bring Your Own Key, or BYOK, to Azure Container Registry
• Apr 22, 2020 How Tokens and Scope Maps for Azure Container Registry introduces great repository-level access restrictions
• Apr 9, 2020 How we planned and launched a Podcast - the technical story
• Apr 6, 2020 A few tips for securing your remote workforce in a Microsoft cloud landscape
• Apr 3, 2020 Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions
• Feb 12, 2020 Re-use service instances by Implementing Dependency Injection in Azure Functions
• Feb 7, 2020 Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry
• Jan 2, 2020 Embrace a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for Azure
• Dec 18, 2019 Issues with "Cannot bind parameter 'log' to type ILogger." after upgrading Azure Functions to v3
• Dec 17, 2019 Use the new Azure SDKs with Managed Identities
• Dec 14, 2019 Fixing: Unable to locate the .NET Core SDK. Check that it is installed and that the version specified in global.json (if any) matches the installed version.
• Dec 13, 2019 Azure Functions and secure Configuration with built-in integration to Azure Key Vault
• Nov 15, 2019 Automate Azure DevOps code security analysis with the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extensions
• Nov 7, 2019 Use Azure Monitor to get Network Insights and Storage Insights
• Oct 29, 2019 Diagnosing and troubleshooting configuration and application errors in Azure App Services
• Oct 23, 2019 We just launched an Azure Podcast
• Oct 4, 2019 Deleting Microsoft Sentinel but keep the ingested data
• Oct 2, 2019 Using Azure Key Vault Secrets from your DevOps pipelines
• Sep 30, 2019 Log custom application security events in Azure Log Analytics which are ingested and used in Microsoft Sentinel
• Sep 24, 2019 Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel
• Sep 24, 2019 Visualize your templates with the Azure ARM Template Viewer extension for VS Code
• Sep 23, 2019 Who accessed my Azure Key Vault?
• Sep 20, 2019 Send health pings from your Azure Function applications to ensure Scheduled triggers work as expected
• Sep 18, 2019 Run Azure DevOps Unit Tests with the Azure Storage Emulator on Hosted build agents
• Aug 30, 2019 Use the Azure Portal Desktop App
• Aug 28, 2019 Building scalable cloud systems with great performance using Azure Cache for Redis
• Jul 11, 2019 Retrieve logs from Application Insights programmatically with .NET Core (C#)
• May 7, 2019 Introduction to Azure App Configuration for Developers with C# .NET Core
• Apr 10, 2019 Azure DevOps (VSTS) - The current operating system is not capable of running this task, with "Azure File Copy"
• Mar 27, 2019 Developing using Azure Dev Spaces with Azure Kubernetes Services
• Mar 22, 2019 Protecting your Azure Container Registry by denying all requests except from allowed IP addresses
• Mar 18, 2019 Building a .NET Core API, host it in Azure Container Instances from a private Container Registry and enable HTTPS using Application Gateway
• Mar 6, 2019 AKS: Quickly switching context between multiple clusters in Azure Kubernetes Services with cmder aliases
• Feb 26, 2019 Azure Container Instances - Using Managed Identity to access Key Vault secrets with C#
• Feb 20, 2019 Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Creating secret volumes and consume secrets using C# .NET Core
• Feb 19, 2019 Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Secrets - Using Secure Environment Variables
• Feb 18, 2019 Azure Container Instances - C# .NET Core apps running as containers in your private Azure Container Registry
• Feb 17, 2019 How to: Mount an Azure Storage File Share to containers in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
• Feb 17, 2019 Processing data from SQLite hosted in an Azure File share, running in Azure Kubernetes Services
• Nov 2, 2018 Enable Azure Monitor for you Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster
• Oct 30, 2018 Building custom Data Collectors for Azure Log Analytics in C#
• Oct 16, 2018 Getting Started with BYOK in Azure Storage - Encrypt data at rest with your own encryption keys
• Oct 8, 2018 Secure your data in Azure Storage Accounts using RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
• Oct 7, 2018 Secure your Azure Storage Accounts with restrictions based on public IP addresses
• Oct 2, 2018 Fixing issue related to Package is not compatible with netcoreapp2.1, supports netstandard2.0, when using Azure DevOps (VSTS)
• Mar 16, 2018 Azure Tip: Installing and using the Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code
• Mar 13, 2018 Azure Tip: Running the Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu, in Windows 10
• Mar 12, 2018 Azure Tip: List of supported VM Sizes in Azure Container Services (AKS)
• Mar 5, 2018 Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster running on Azure Container Service (AKS) using Log Analytics
• Feb 20, 2018 Azure Container Services (AKS) - Getting Started with AKS and a private Azure Container Registry
• Feb 20, 2018 Azure Container Services (AKS) - Upgrading your Kubernetes cluster
• Nov 17, 2017 A practical guide to building a Bot using Microsoft Bot Framework using C# and host it in Azure, and use it with Microsoft Teams, Skype and more
• Nov 14, 2017 Building and running a .NET Core application in a Docker Swarm in Azure, via Docker Cloud
• Dec 1, 2016 Getting the instance id of a running Azure Function with ExecutionContext.InvocationId
• Dec 1, 2016 Reuse your C# Script (csx) code in multiple Azure Functions
• Nov 1, 2016 Azure Storage REST API: Authenticate with C#
• Sep 26, 2016 Microsoft Ignite 2016 - Summary of key announcements for Office 365, SharePoint and Azure from Day 1
• Aug 28, 2016 Azure Resource Manager Template Visualisation with ARMVIZ
• May 13, 2016 Azure Resource Manager - Part 8 - Export Template for Resources in a Resource Group with the REST API
• May 12, 2016 Azure Resource Manager - Part 7 - Download an Azure Publishing Profile (xml) programmatically using REST
• May 11, 2016 Azure Resource Manager - Part 6 - Move Azure Resources from one Resource Group to another
• Apr 11, 2016 Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 5 - Tip: Get all available api-version alternatives for the ARM endpoints
• Apr 1, 2016 Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 4 - Tip: Azure Resource Explorer
• Feb 21, 2016 Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 3 - Build an application using C# which is using the Azure Resource Manager API's
• Feb 20, 2016 Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Part 1 - Creating a Service Principal for your AAD using PowerShell
• May 4, 2015 Highlights from the recent announcements at BUILD 2015
• Jan 9, 2015 Getting Started with building Azure WebJobs ("Timer Jobs") for your Office 365 sites
• Nov 13, 2014 Getting Started with Application Insights with Visual Studio 2015 for your ASP.NET Web Applications
• Oct 30, 2014 Extending Windows Azure Mobile Services queries to include relational data and optional metadata
• May 26, 2014 Getting started with Office 365 development - Part 4 - From development to production: Publish your app to Windows Azure Web Sites
• Jun 14, 2011 SP 2010: Developing for SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure - Part 1