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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…

Figure out the Parameters! Calling Azure REST APIs via Powershell Commandlets

Posted on July 10, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

In this post we’ll walk through the process on determining the needed parameters for the Azure Powershell Commandlet wrappers for the Azure REST APIs.  It’s sometimes tricky!  This is especially helpful if…

Calling Azure Rest APIs from VSTS Build/Release Tasks

Posted on July 7, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

I recently learned that VSTS Build & Release tasks have a built-in way to leverage Azure Powershell – cool!  I needed to automate a bunch of steps in Azure and already have…

Using Fiddler to Simulate Whitelisting URLs through a Proxy

Posted on June 17, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

There’s a customer I was working with who had a restricted network and was trying to determine exactly why a piece of software was failing.  In their environment, they had a proxy…

Nifty and FAST ‘Tags’ in the browser using JQuery, HTML, CSS, and JS

Posted on April 28, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

On one of my recent ASP.Net projects, I needed to enable a user to pick an arbitrary set of things from a long list and wanted to do this WITHOUT any round…

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