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Backup and restore your SQL Azure database using PowerShell
Today there are a few good options to backup from SQL Azure, restore to SQL Azure or even migrate to SQL Azure: Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (with client) Enzo Backup...
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Passive FTP and dynamic ports in IIS8 and Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Today Windows Azure supports up to 150 endpoints which is great for those applications that rely on persistent connections, like an FTP Server. You can run an FTP Server in 2 modes: Active mode: The...
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Adding multiple endpoints to your Windows Azure Virtual Machines by using a...
In order to manage endpoints of a Virtual Machine you have 2 options: use the portal or use Powershell. If you use the portal it’s not so easy to add a list or a range or ports, you would need to add...
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Using Remote Powershell with Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Update:Â I created a script which makes this a lot easier, you can find it in my next blog post (Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure Virtual Machines on your...
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Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure...
In my last post I explained how to leverage the support for Remote PowerShell in your Windows Azure Virtual Machines. While this is fairly easy to setup, it can get a little boring if you need to...
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Using PowerShell Web Access to manage your Windows Azure Virtual Machines and...
PowerShell Web Access is a new feature of Windows Server 2012 which provides you a web-based PowerShell console. This diagram from the Deploy Windows PowerShell Web Access article on TechNet gives you...
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Using your Belgian eID or any other smartcard to securely deploy Windows...
Just like most people I love how easy it is to work with the Windows Azure platform. You download a publish settings file, import it in Visual Studio and now you have access to the complete...
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Manually installing the VM Agent on your older Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Yesterday I covered the new CustomScript extension for the VM Agent and in today’s post we’ll continue on the VM Agent topic. The VM Agent was introduced a few weeks ago with support to install it when...
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Mounting your Azure File Shares on-premises through WebDAV
In last week's post we looked at how we could use Azure Files to run a high-available, distributed FTP Server in Azure. This opens up a few interesting integration opportunities between processes...
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My talk at AzureConf 2014: Meet Azure Files, your new Swiss Army Knife
On October 21st, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf, another free event for the Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions...
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Managing your Azure resources in Visual Studio with your Microsoft Account
The Azure SDK is what makes it possible to manage resources in one or more Azure subscriptions from within Visual Studio. You'll find it in the Server Explorer next to the Data Connections, SharePoint...
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Backend-less applications with Auth0 and Azure Table Storage
There are plenty of scenarios where mobile applications don't need a backend, but where an online, centralized data store is still required. To save a user profile, pictures, documents, settings,...
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Using Auth0 and the Belgian eID card to secure your Web/Cloud/AngularJS...
The Belgian eID is a smartcard which contains the name, date of birth, address, picture of a Belgian citizen and almost everyone in Belgium has one. Now because of the nation wide availability of this...
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Updated RedDog Search and the RedDog Search Portal to Azure Search...
For today's session on Azure Search here at Mobile Dev Day we updated both RedDog.Search and the RedDog Search Portal to match the latest version of the REST API, 2014-10-20-Preview. These changes...
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Awarded Microsoft Azure MVP and joining Auth0
Microsoft Azure MVP I've worked with the Microsoft Azure platform for quite some time now and the last few years it's been more than a full-time job. Besides my job I've been doing a lot of other...
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Transferring your Auth0 audit logs to Application Insights using a scheduled...
If you're using the Microsoft Azure platform might be doing some monitoring of your applications with Application Insights. So wouldn't it be nice if you could take logs from third party services...
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Connecting Auth0 to Power BI with Stream Analytics and a Webtask
My previous blog post briefly covered a few use cases for Webtask and showed how to use a Webtask to transfer Auth0 logs to Application Insights. In this post we'll take it a step further and show how...
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Using ADAL and the Azure Resource Manager REST API from within a Webtask
In my previous blog posts I already covered a few interesting use cases for the Webtask platform. The goal for this post is to lay a foundation that we can use in a next series of posts to do some cool...
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Create advanced webhooks for Azure Automation with a Webtask
Azure Automation already supports webhooks but these are currently scoped to a single runbook. This post explains how you can use a Webtask to send secret settings (encrypted), internal settings (which...
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ChatOps! Deploy and manage complete environments on Azure using ... Slack!
At Auth0 we host things on different cloud providers. Our test environments we use for the appliance run on AWS and Azure. Now when we want to do some manual testing we might want to restore a specific...
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