Jeff Sanders Technical Blog

I am a Microsoft employee that has worked on all aspects of the Web Stack for a long time. I hope these blogs are useful to you! Use this information at your own risk.


Earlier Posts

When you try to access or create Easy tables or Easy APIs in Azure App Services or Azure Mobile Apps you may get this error message in the portal: Unsupported service.


Just a quick blog on this…


You can upload and use Certificates securely in your Azure App Service (Azure Web App, Azure Mobile App etc… ).  If you are having trouble, here are some basic troubleshooting steps.


Just another quicky post:


I noticed that you cannot change the notification hub in the UI.  There is a simple workaround (it will be fixed by the way).


For various reasons you may have difficulty attaching your debugger to an Azure Web App.  This quick blog will show you a method that may work for you if you get into this situation.  I will NOT attempt to diagnose your issue in this blog so please don’t post a question asking why the normal methods don’t work for you (like right clicking your resource in Server Explorer of Visual Studio).


 


Knowing the server type and what it is running can be information that an attacker may leverage.  This article explains how you can remove the subject headers.
Azure Mobile Apps are really Azure Web Apps.  You can configure the headers by altering the Web.Config just like you would with a standard ASP.Net application!


If you get an error similar to this:
Changed service health to ‘Critical’ (Service is unhealthy. Please check the service logs to determine the issue and how to correct it.)



Just a quicky post…


I needed to attach an existing Azure SQL database to my .NET Backend.  This will allow me to expose existing data using the Azure Mobile Service I have defined.  This will walk you through the steps I took and get you on your way!