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I am currently working on an next-gen widget dispenser solution that is gradually being rolled out to trial sites across Australia...

Yesterday afternoon while doing some work I ran into an issue in Azure.

In this post I am going to try and review the Azure Platform-as-a-Service offerings that have Container capabilities and cover what the services can be used for.

Let's take a look at a simple reason why you might have a 200 OK response but not see any backend traffic!

Learn how to deploy an ASP.NET web API by packaging it in a container and using Azure DevOps for the deployment.

I'm excited to have the opportunity to share Azure's powerful Open Source support with more developers in November.

I'm really happy to share that we are bringing the Open Source Roadshows to Auckland and Wellington in November 2017!

I'm really excited about this opportunity to share the power of Azure with the developer and IT Pro community in France.

When you provision a VMSS and you set the "overprovision" flag to "true" the provisioning engine will build more Instances than required...

To truly move to a VMSS approach using a VM image is to remove any local static configuration data we might bake into our solution.

Learn how to start building virtual machine images that can be deployed to VM Scale Sets.

In early August I'll be running a couple of free training days covering how developers who work in the Open Source space can bring their solutions to Microsoft's Azure public cloud.

If you want to move away from those legacy hosting businesses and want a simple method to deploy static or dynamic websites, then this is worth a look.

Here's our challenge today - setup a MySQL environment, including a web-based management UI, with zero local installation on your machine and minimal mouse clicks.

If you're interested to learn more about Microsoft Graph API and how you can leverage it to build compelling solutions in the form of Bots in Microsoft Teams...

Let's take a look back on the journey I've been on with Functions for the past 12 months

If you are attending my session and would like to undertake the exercise here's what you'll need to install locally, along with instructions on working with the code.

In this post I am going to take a quick look at two technologies that are related to high availability of solutions...

One of the neat features of Azure Pipelines Release capability is the ability to deploy to Virtual Machine hosted in Azure...

This blog post is a reference for me (and I guess you too) to understand the invite process and document the experience the invited user has.

In this post I'm going to look at how we can deploy a Web Deploy (or MS Deploy) packaged Web Application to an Azure Web Application and define different deployment environments with varying configurations.

In this blog I am continuing with my series covering useful scenarios for using Azure Functions - this time looking at payments processing.

Prior to Azure Functions announcing their General Availability (GA) I had previously used SendGrid as an output binding in order to send email messages.

Azure Functions is one of those services in Azure that is seeing a massive amount of uptake...

See how to build and deploy a .NET Windows Service from Visual Studio Team Services to a Windows Virtual Machine running in Azure.

I recently spoke at the Innovation Days 2016 event held in Sydney on Azure AD B2C...

Microsoft provides a bunch of useful information on how to deploy from Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to different targets...

The good news is that if you’re already operating in a cloud environment then you have likely had to deal with many of the fundamental differences between traditional application hosting and architecture and that of cloud platforms.

Like many things in Azure, Azure App Service has a multitude of consumption options available that can sometimes make it hard to determine what option suits your use.

I'll be speaking at the upcoming community-run Global Azure Bootcamp in Sydney.

If you've ever worked in any form of systems administrator role then you will be familiar with process automation...

The introduction of the Azure Resource Manager platform in Azure continues to expose new possibilities for managing your deployed resources.

I've been doing a lot of PowerShell DSC on Azure VMs recently, so I thought I'd share my experience in debugging custom DSC Modules...

A big part of where Microsoft Azure is going is being driven by template-defined environments that leverage the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for deployment orchestration.

Read how you can improve your security posture for Azure SQL Database.

Read how you can move from the traditional Administrator / Co-Adminstrator setup to leveraging RBAC.

Here's a TL;DR summary on containers and the Windows announcement this week.

Since October 2014 it has been possible to add a public IP address to a virtual machine in Azure...

I'm going to start by saying that I totally missed that the setting of distribution mode on Azure’s Internal Load Balancer (ILB) service is possible.

If like me you've been a keen user of Visual Studio Online since it first came into existence way

Great to be a part of this team, and what a great recognition for everyone's efforts!

Ignite was huge - 22,000+ attendees, 4.5 days and a session catalogue that ran into easily 100+ sessions.

If your business is migrating workloads to Azure the chances are at some point you will probably want to create a form of private interconnect with Azure.

Ever since Microsoft announced their G Series Virtual Machines for Azure I’ve been looking for a good reason to fire one up and kick the tyres.

Traditionally for Google-based identities, ACS utilised OpenID which Google is retiring in favour of an OAuth 2.0 implementation ("OpenID Connect").

In this post we walk through how to use row level security with an existing SQL database.

I enjoyed writing my last post on Azure SQL Database that I thought I'd take a look at another recently added feature - Auditing.

In this post we walk through how to set up dynamic data masking for an existing database.

It's been hard to miss the increasing presence of Docker, particularly if you work in cloud technology.