2019

2019-11-15

Introducing the New Azure SDKs

As of 11/4/2019, a few of the New Azure SDKs have hit General Availability! Read more here: Azure SDK Releases Azure has had a tremendous amount of growth in a very short amount of time. With that

2019-07-16

TechTips

Solution to Azure CLI won't upgrade to latest version or it still works after uninstall

On Windows using the Windows Installer and Azure CLI wouldn’t update to the latest version - it was stuck on 2.0.44, but the latest is 2.0.66. I uninstalled the Azure CLI via Apps, but it was still av

2019-04-06

TechTips

How to Call the Azure REST APIs with Postman In No Time Flat

This post will show you the fastest way to call the Azure REST APIs using Postman. We’ll use: Postman Azure Cloud Shell - https://shell.azure.com Create Postman Collection Let’s create a Postman Col

2018

2018-09-28

TechTutorial

How to Remove Yourself from an Azure Subscription or Azure Active Directory Tenant

Remove Yourself from an Azure Subscription It is not possible to remove yourself from a Subscription. You have to contact the Subscription owner to remove you. IMO a user should be able to remove th

2018-02-26

TechTips

Azure CLI: How to Supress Command Output

Update As of Azure CLI version 2.0.55 that was released on 01/15/2019, the --output param now supports none. So you can just use: az [command] --output none to suppress CLI output. You can review the

2018-01-10

TechAzure

Azure IoT Edge on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

If you try to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime or the Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), then you will run into the following errors: ERROR: Could not login to Container Regis

2018-01-06

TechTips

Azure Functions v2 Now Uses ASP.NET Core Configuration and No Longer Supports ConfigurationManager

You may have noticed that ConfigurationManager is not available in Azure Functions v2 .NET Standard projects. It’s no longer supported. AF v2 now uses ASPNET Core Configuration. If you add the Syste

2017

2017-12-19

TechAzure

Workaround: Azure IoT Python SDK Error: curl_easy_perform() failed: Out of memory

A bunch of people have reported the following issue with the Azure IoT Python SDK: azure-iot-sdk-python/c/c-utility/adapters/httpapi_curl.c Func:HTTPAPI_ExecuteRequest Line:552 curl_easy_perform() fai

2017-11-29

TechAzure

Azure REST APIs with Postman in 2 Minutes

The Azure REST APIs require a Bearer Token Authorization header. The docs do a great job explaining every authentication requirement, but do not tell you how to quickly get started. This post will ho

2017-11-28

TechAzure

Azure IoT Edge: How to Set Force No Passwords in Config

When setting up Azure IoT Edge, you will most likely want to use an external config file. If you run iotedgectl setup with the --config-file option and don’t want to force passwords with the --auto-ce

2017-11-21

TechAzure

Azure IoT Edge with Azure Container Registry

You will likely want to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime from your own Azure Container Registry (ACR). While this will be officially supported eventually, right now it is not, but there is a workaround.

2017-11-16

TechAzure

Azure IoT Edge on Raspberry Pi

Azure IoT Edge Public Preview was just announced at Microsoft Connect. Here’s how to get it running on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch or Stretch Lite. Raspbian Jessie should work as well, but I h

2017-05-17

TechAzure

Solution to Unreachable Azure IoT Hub Endpoint

Azure IoT allows you to define “Endpoints” and send messages to them via “Routes”. Learn more about Endpoints and Routes here. I setup a Service Bus Queue Endpoint, but it was showing as “Unreachable”

2017-05-03

TechAzure

How to use Apache Avro Compression with Azure IoT, Azure Stream Analytics, and Node.js

I was recently working with a customer that uses Apache Avro compression and discovered that there isn’t a great example out there that shows you how to send Avro compressed messages through the IoT p

2017-04-26

TechTutorials

How to Execute Postman Collections in your Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and newman

I’ve been doing a lot with Postman lately and have been blogging everything I’ve uncovered along the way. Postman is more than just an ad-hoc REST tester - I believe that the future of REST API docume

2017-04-05

TechAzure

How to Host Jenkins on Azure

6/29/17 Update: There’s a new Azure Solution Template for Jenkins here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-solution-template-for-jenkins-on-azure/ Here’s how to get Jenkins on Azu

2017-03-19

TechAzure

How to Use and Execute the Azure IoT Resource Provider REST APIs with Postman

I was recently working with a partner that was having some difficulty integrating with the Azure IoT REST APIs. You can read about that experience here: How to Use the Azure IoT Hub Device Twins REST

2017-03-12

TechAzure

How to Generate Azure Storage Shared Access Signature (SAS) Tokens in Postman's Pre-request Script Sandbox

I’m working on a project that should make it much easier for developers to consume REST APIs that use SAS Tokens with Swagger and Postman. If you don’t already know, Postman is an app that allows you

2017-03-10

TechAzure

How to Use Azure Active Directory (AAD) Access Tokens in Postman

Update: 12/5/2017: I blogged a much faster way to do this here: Azure REST APIs with Postman in 2 Minutes Here’s how to get all setup with AAD access tokens in Postman. Step-by-Step Walkthrough Vide

2017-03-09

TechTips

Solution to Azure Function Message: Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in function.json

If you see the following while trying to edit an Azure Function via browser… “Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in