Winterdom

Recently, I wanted to write a PowerShell script that would check expiration on the certificates assigned for SSL/TLS on Azure Application Gateway resources. Obtaining the certificates is easy through the SslCertificates property of the Application Gateway instance. However, it took me a while to figure out how to actually extract...

This is part 3 of my series of articles on implementing a custom Logic Apps connector. Read part 1 and part 2. By this point, I’ve implemented and deployed the WebApi application that implements the custom connector, and configured the necessary applications and permissions in Azure Active Directory. It’s time...

In part 1 of this series of posts, I introduced the idea of implementing a custom Logic Apps connector as a way to get familiar with the challenges involved. The initial part revolved around the ASP.NET Core WebApi implementation. In this second part, I’d like to discuss a bit about...

On a previous article I discussed how to use a certificate stored in Key Vault to provide authentication to Azure Active Directory from a Web Application deployed in AppService so that we could authenticate to an Azure SQL database. With the introduction of Managed Service Identity, this becomes even easier,...

In a previous post, I presented a few ways to create Azure Event Grid resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Today, support for sending grid events to Azure Event Hubs rather than to an HTTP-based WebHook was announced. Obviously, I wanted to try this out as quick as possible!...

Azure Logic Apps now supports writing custom connectors, which are just custom REST APIs for which you can customize the experience so that they feel like the built-in Logic Apps connectors. I wanted to give try my hand at writing one, so decided on a simple use case: Writing a...

In a previous post I was lamenting not having a way to obtained the managed service identity generated for an Azure resource, such as a Azure SQL logical server or a Web App from the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template itself. The issue was that the reference() function in an...

A couple of days ago I was testing with a customer using Azure Active Directory integrated authentication to Azure SQL Database through the SQL Server ODBC drivers. On one test machine, we kept getting an error similar to this: Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server : SQL Server Network...

Documenting this here in case I run into this again. While working with a customer that is taking advantage of App Service Environment to host internal applications on Azure with connectivity to their Express Route connection, we ran into an issue when trying to setup permissions so that selected users...

A few days ago, the preview of Managed Service Identity for Azure was released, opening up some interesting possibilies to access other Azure resources from your application in a secure manner. App Service is one of the services adding support for managed service identity, including a nice library to make...