Build is over, now it is time to play with all the new features that was announced. Microsoft teams was one of the product that got a new handful of useful features. The list of customizations options for teams are now even longer, check them out here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/ The one […]
As a true Christmas tradition I have to post a blog article during the Christmas days. This year, I will show how you can remote control the headless browser PhantomJS using the open standard protocol WebDriver (also used by the Selenium project). The PhantomJS browser will run inside a Docker […]
Microsoft just released the ability to schedule shutdown of Azure Resource Manager VMs. The feature has previously only been available in dev test labs, but is now also usable for stand alone VMs. Unfortunately the feature is pretty limited, it can trigger a shutdown at a specific time, and 15 […]
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 […]
I got a request on email, whether or not it is possible to create Event Hub with Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM). And yes of course it is – but yet again Microsofts documentation is lacking, so instead of just replying to the email I decided to post the answer […]
This weeks ARM challenge was to provision an Azure Notification hub, with client credentials for Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) as part of a larger ARM template. Unfortunately how to do so is not documented, but we are not completely out of luck because the schema for the notification hub is […]
I love Azure resource manager and especially ARM templates for deploying a full resource group. Unfortunately the documentation on how to author the templates still have a long way to come. Recently I have been doing some IoT work, where we are using Service Bus and Event Hub. How to […]
Azure Site Extensions is a way to add extra functionality to an azure web app. Currently the number of extensions are rather limited, but yet there are a few interesting ones, e.g. the Visual Studio Online extensions that lets you edit your code directly in the Azure Web Site. If […]
Just a quick reminder to myself. In order to set the “always on” property on a Azure Web App when provisioned from an ARM template, the resource should look like this [javascript] { "apiVersion": "2015-06-01", "name": "[parameters(‘siteName’)]", "type": "Microsoft.Web/Sites", "location": "[parameters(‘siteLocation’)]", "dependsOn": [ "[concat(‘Microsoft.Web/serverFarms/’, parameters(‘hostingPlanName’))]" ], "tags": { "[concat(‘hidden-related:’, resourceGroup().id, […]
I have been slow at picking up the Azure Resource Manager templates, mostly because I don’t deploy that many identical solutions to Azure, but also because I for a long time didn’t find the json template language very intuitive. Attending Build 2015 and seeing it in use during several sessions […]