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How to create a Self-Signed SAN Certificate in Windows 8
One of the cool features of Windows 8 is the improved set of PowerShell commandlets that have been shipped with it. There are several of them which could have made the task a lot easier for the server...
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Working with Wild Card Certificates
Yesterday one of my colleagues came up to me with a simple problem regarding wild card certificates. I gave him the solution immediately, but it had to take a lot of convincing to do. This shows that...
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Azure 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...
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Azure 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...
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Azure 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...
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Azure App Service: How to read & parse connection strings via PHP
On Azure App Service, developers have the ability to configure the connection strings as key-value pair under App Settings section. Here is a sample screenshot: At runtime, Azure App Service retrieves...
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Azure 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....
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Azure 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...
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Azure 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...
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Client 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...
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Azure 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...
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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,...
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