Tag: Azure

This tag contains all of my blog posts that directly concern Microsoft Azure.

But what is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft themselves describe it like this:

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/overview/what-is-azure)

Marketing talk aside, Azure offers developers a way to get going fast, and concentrate on the functionality and added value instead of worrying about the infrastructure. Well, worrying about most of it anyway.

For IT Pros, it offers a new can of worms, a huge set of tools to squash those worms, and opportunities to offer a lot of value to their organizations.

For business people, Azure offers big potential savings. And the blockchain. And machine learning. And IoT, of course. It’s the hybrid cloud solution for your modern, blockchain-backed, machine learning -powered workloads running on the intelligent edge.

Does that sound good to you? No? Well, scratch the last paragraph – it’s true, but not as bad as it sounds!

Fixing an “AADSTS70005” issue by enabling the implicit authentication flow for your Azure AD app

This article explains the most typical reasons why you might get an error with an “AADSTS70005” code, and how to fix it. Spoiler alert – it usually just requires enabling Azure AD implicit grant flow for authentication! And let me show you – step by step – how to do…Continue reading Fixing an “AADSTS70005” issue by enabling the implicit authentication flow for your Azure AD app

"Publishing Failed" for an Azure Function

Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

This post describes how to fix the error, where when publishing Azure Functions or Azure App Services you get an error like this: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.” This is luckily another straightforward fix! Problem Azure Function Publish fails…Continue reading Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

AADSTS50011: The reply address ... does not match the reply addresses configured for the application.

How to fix “AADSTS50011: Reply address did not match because of case sensitivity.”

So, you got an AADSTS50011 error code? It’s just Azure AD’s authentication acting up because of an invalid reply address! Here are a bunch of different reasons that could have led to this error. This post describes the variant where the URL’s case sensitivity differs from what’s configured. For me,…Continue reading How to fix “AADSTS50011: Reply address did not match because of case sensitivity.”

"The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable." leads to a 404 error in jQuery.

How to fix an Azure Function failing with error “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

This post describes one way to resolve a problem, where you receive an error like “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” when calling your Azure Functions. Problem Another day, another simple, yet kind of weird issue to solve! I…Continue reading How to fix an Azure Function failing with error “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

Obama congratulates you on your broken apps

Fixing an unhandled exception about StructureMap configuration failing (messed up assembly bindings)

So, you’re running a console program, but while you try running it, you get an error like this: “StructureMap.Exceptions.StructureMapConfigurationException“, with a message like this: “Unable to find the exported Type’s in assembly” (the typo done by Microsoft, not me). There are a number of reasons for this error, but for…Continue reading Fixing an unhandled exception about StructureMap configuration failing (messed up assembly bindings)

Solving Azure Web Application’s first load performance issues

Is your Azure Web Application suffering from absolutely horrible load times every time someone accesses it for the first time every 15 minutes or so? Mine was. It was pitiful. I was developing a web-based service using EF6 and ASP.NET MVC 5, where all the assets were hosted in Azure.…Continue reading Solving Azure Web Application’s first load performance issues

Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness

I won a hackathon! They had fun topics, it was a cool challenge, a well-organized event, and had cool prizes. Since this is the first hackathon I ever took part in, I thought I’d post something about my experience and the solution(s) I figured out. Description I recently took part…Continue reading Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness

AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user. (header thumbnail)

Solving error “AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user”

I stumbled upon a customer that complained about some pages in their intranet throwing weird errors with authentication. Those pages seemed to have one thing in common – there was a Yammer embed (or a SharePoint script webpart with Yammer embed script in it, to be precise) there. The error…Continue reading Solving error “AADSTS90013: Invalid input received from the user”

Microsoft Flow that's used in this demo - it uses an Azure Function to extract text from a doc, which is then sent to Text Analysis, and finally written back to SharePoint. In the end, it sends notifications of the status of the run.

How to Resolve Managed Metadata Madness in SharePoint?

Using Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Text API to enrich a Flow that fills Metadata for new items in a Modern SharePoint Team Site. That’s, in a nutshell, the solution I submitted to a recent online hackathon. Quite a mouthful, isn’t it? The whole solution (and a public vote, if…Continue reading How to Resolve Managed Metadata Madness in SharePoint?

Call to sites Graph API requires “owner” permissions for site collection regardless of app permissions

Okay – yet another weird issue, and a hacky workaround. I was developing an app that was calling a SharePoint site through Graph API, using jQuery $.ajax call (developed in TypeScript), and ran into surprising 401 errors. I did find a workaround but am also working on an actual fix.…Continue reading Call to sites Graph API requires “owner” permissions for site collection regardless of app permissions

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