I keep losing the details for the metadata service, so I’m posting them here so I have a reference! The link for the documentation is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/instance-metadata-service . The Azure Metadata Service…
Authoring Azure ARM Templates
I found myself recently working on ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates using Visual Studio 2019 and it was slow going looking up samples, cross referencing properties, etc. This was taking a lot…
Recover Azure Queue Messages From the Poison Queue (unpoison messages!)
I recently deployed some new code to a production Azure Function– feature complete, good to go! This particular function is triggered by an Azure Queue and when I went to check on…
Creating and Deleting VSTS Team Projects with Powershell
I was searching and searching and couldn’t find any good documentation on how to create & delete VSTS Projects with PowerShell – so I figured I would write some myself! There’s some…
How to easily switch versions of Azure PowerShell
UPDATED 2.1.2019 to handle the new Az Azure Powershell module! Recently I’ve been creating some scripts using Azure PowerShell (like this one for DevTest Labs documented here), Azure PowerShell support moves forward…
Improving Logs in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) with special ‘tags’
I’ve been doing a lot with Azure Functions, Storage and DevTest Labs recently and leverage VSTS Build and Release to act as an ‘orchestration engine’ to automate Azure. It’s easy to have…
How to enable Rich Text in Dynamics CRM using CKEditor
(note: this was reposted to fix issues in the code from here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/peterhauge/2015/10/01/how-to-enable-rich-text-in-dynamics-crm-using-ckeditor/ , so all the comments related to this post are located at the URL above). I recently found myself…
Visual Studio 2015 install failures (Android SDK Setup) behind a Proxy
I was recently working with a customer trying to install Visual Studio 2015 in their corporate network which happened to be behind a firewall. Access to the internet was restricted and provided…
How to Create a Monster Build Agent in Azure for Cheap!
I recently created a VSTS Build and Release steps for my project but ran into an issue using the Hosted Build Agents… During Release I was doing several Azure operations in a…
How to Check Database Integrity with App Insights on ASP.Net Website
In this year’s //oneweek Hackathon at Microsoft, I built a quick ASP.Net front end for our project. During the hackathon we need to be innovative AND fast! In our case we had…