Azure Key Vault is a pretty handy way of centrally managing access to secrets and logging what process has requested access to them. The best way to use it is for Azure hosted resources such as Web Applications or VMs for which you can assign a managed identity to the Read more…
Previously I’ve used Azure AD to authenticate web application users as well as to retrieve authentication tokens for accessing Azure resources but I hadn’t tried retrieving tokens during the initial login before. It turns out that this was much trickier than I’d expected, partially because of how abstracted away the Read more…
I’ve been getting to grips with Azure AD authentication an part of that has involved retrieving access codes for Power BI at initial login to an authenticated web application. When I finally managed to get this working I then started getting the following error. Bad Request – Request Too Long Read more…
Empty Sessions in Azure Web Applications As part of a recent project I needed to embed a Power BI Dashboard in a webpage, in order to authenticate access to this dashboard Azure AD authentication was used, this directs the user to the standard Microsoft login and they are then redirected Read more…
Exporting an Azure SQL Databases Using .NET It’s possible to export an Azure SQL database to a BACPAC file using the Azure portal and PowerShell among other methods but the documentation makes no mention of doing this directly in .NET, though happily this is also possible. The process detailed below Read more…
Azure Active Directory Authentication in Web Applications I’ve previously used “Individual User Accounts” authentication for authenticating users in web applications but as the management of users in the underlying SQL databases isn’t that simple it seemed that using Azure Active Directory to manage users might be a better option. The Read more…
How to get access tokens from Azure Active Directory I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects Read more…