Microsoft Teams offers some interesting ways to customize the product. Previously I blogged about how to use the custom connectors to get content from external sources posted to your chats. Today we are going to look at how to create a custom tab. Custom tabs are a way to grant […]
In this post I will demonstrate how to assign a custom domain name for your dynamic Azure function with an ARM template. I will also show a neat trick on how using a reverse proxy you can get your Azure Functions to look like they are part of an existing […]
Today Microsoft released their new collaboration tool, Microsoft Teams. Microsoft teams is a Slack copy, build on-top of Office 365. It has very good integration with the rest of the Office 365 services, and is looking to be a very promising alternative to Slack for all those companies that have […]
If you have been playing around with deploying Azure functions with ARM templates chances are that you have run into the error “The pricing tier ‘Dynamic’ is not allowed in this resource group”. Below you can seethe full error text from a powershell deployment of an Azure Function ARM template […]
Per default Azure Functions uses the name of the function (which is in fact the directory name that contains the function files) as the http route. E.g. a function named products hosted in azure functions with the name mycompany will end up at a URL: https://mycompany.azurewebsites.net/products. That might be fine […]
For a while it has been possible to create custom dashboards in the new azure portal (portal.azure.com). This feature is pretty useful if you want to get a quick overview from a single page. It can also be used to build big screen dashboards for IT operations. A simple example […]
Microsoft recently introduced a dynamic pricing model for the Azure App Service Plan. The app service plan is the infrastructure that hosts your Web App, Function Apps or Logic Apps. Currently the dynamic service plan is only available for function and logic apps. In fact going forward from the 1st […]
Build servers are a must, and so is fast build times, especially if you practice continues integration and maybe even continues delivery. So what do you do when npm install takes too long to complete? Buy more bandwidth or faster CPU. Well there is something you can do before that […]
Having a proxy in another country is useful for a lot of things. My specific reason to investigate it was to be able to watch american TV shows online (I had also planned to use it for US Netflix, little was I aware that Netflix since July 2016, have proxy […]
Every now and then I need to use openssl on windows, and I always struggle finding a good set of prebuilt binaries. For a long time I have been fine with a very old version of openssl built back in 2008 – but recently I needed to use some newer […]