Pete – A Software Engineer's Logbook

Using the Azure Metadata Service for Virtual Machines

Posted on November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 by Pete

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

Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019 by Pete

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!)

Posted on September 17, 2018November 17, 2022 by Pete

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

Posted on September 9, 2018September 17, 2018 by Pete

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

Posted on July 15, 2018February 1, 2019 by Pete

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’

Posted on June 22, 2018July 3, 2018 by Pete

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

Posted on June 8, 2017June 22, 2018 by Pete

(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…

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