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I blog very frequently and sometimes the posts contain code snippets. The site template sometimes...
Date: 06/13/2017
Azure App Service: Understanding TLS Mutual Authentication with Web App
I have published 2 posts in the past on Client Certificate authentication. Client Certificate...
Date: 06/12/2017
Client Certificate Authentication (Part 2)
This is a continuation of my earlier post on Client Certificate Authentication (Part 1) aka TLS...
Date: 06/09/2017
Azure App Service: Using Easy Auth to query Facebook information via Graph API
On 8th August 2016, Facebook ended support FQL (Facebook Query Language). Here is a screenshot of...
Date: 06/08/2017
Azure App Service: Generating memory dumps on first chance exception using Procdump
In one of my older posts, I have explained on how we can generate memory dumps on first chance...
Date: 05/08/2017
Azure App Service: Manually collect memory dumps
While troubleshooting web application performance issues we are sometimes required to gather memory...
Date: 05/04/2017
Azure App Service: How to read & parse connection strings via PHP
On Azure App Service, developers have the ability to configure the connection strings as key-value...
Date: 05/04/2017
Azure App Service: Using cURL for deployment
cURL is a command line tool that can be used to send or receive files. cURL.exe supports numerous...
Date: 01/24/2017
Azure App Service: How to connect to the Kudu site of a specific instance
Every Azure Web App has an associated 'scm' service site, which runs Kudu and other Site Extensions....
Date: 11/21/2016
Azure Web Apps: How to retrieve user email in the claim when using Microsoft Account as a provider in Easy Auth
App Service Authentication/Authorization also known as Easy Auth is one of the widely used feature...
Date: 04/01/2016
AZURE REST API & PowerShell: Retrieve Cloud Service Configuration
Recently I was working on an issue where we had to retrieve PaaS instance configuration details like...
Date: 06/02/2015
Client Certificate Authentication (Part 1)
SSL/TLS certificates are commonly used for both encryption and identification of the parties. In...
Date: 05/27/2015
WinDBG - Modifying icons to identify 32/64 bit debuggers
This article is not very technical in nature. Its purpose is to simplify an administrative task....
Date: 05/06/2015
POODLE Vulnerability: Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption
INTRODUCTIONPOODLE abbreviates to Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. This vulnerability...
Date: 10/22/2014
Azure Web App: Connect to your site via FTP and upload/download files
In this post I will describe on how to connect to an Azure Web App via FTP using FileZilla as a FTP...
Date: 08/01/2014
Microsoft Azure: Services availability by region
Various Services are added to Azure very often. At the same time Azure is also expanding its...
Date: 06/06/2014
WEBINAR: Developer Live Series
Developer Live is an initiative started by the "Developer Tools" Support team in Microsoft Support...
Date: 05/16/2014
Microsoft Azure Web Sites: Deploying wordpress to a virtual directory within the azure web site
Microsoft Azure Web Sites allows you to have a virtual directory created within the site. There are...
Date: 04/19/2014
SSL Diagnostics for IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003)
SSL Diagnostics tool for Windows Server 2003 is no longer available for download on TechNet. I had...
Date: 02/22/2014
Windows Azure Web Sites: File upload limit for PHP sites hosted on WAWS
In my previous post I discussed about .user.ini file and how it is useful in WAWS. In today’s post I...
Date: 01/01/2014
Windows Azure Web Sites: PHP, .user.ini and WAWS
Happy New Year 2014 to all the readers!! Its been quite some time I wrote a blog post. I am back and...
Date: 01/01/2014
Azure App Service: How to configure a custom domain
[Updated on 2nd May 2016] Azure App Service provides a default hostname on site creation. It is of...
Date: 07/05/2013
Windows Azure Web Sites : Cannot upload a Self-Signed Certificate created with PowerShell
As SSL functionality was added to Windows Azure Web Sites, I started playing around with it. I was...
Date: 06/28/2013
Working with Wild Card Certificates
Yesterday one of my colleagues came up to me with a simple problem regarding wild card certificates....
Date: 06/12/2013
Windows Azure Web Sites: SSL Support and configuration
Finally in the first week of June 2013, it has been announced that Windows Azure Web Sites will...
Date: 06/04/2013
Windows Azure Web Sites: Reset your deployment credentials v/s Reset your Publish Profile Credentials.
You might have seen this links on the DASHBOARD management page of the website hosted on WAWS, under...
Date: 05/29/2013
Windows Azure Web Sites: Quick Start Management Page
The QUICK START management page is seen right after the user selects one of the websites in the...
Date: 05/28/2013
Difference in IIS 6, IIS 7.x and IIS 8 with regards to SSL
There were lot of differences with regards to SSL moving from IIS 6 to IIS 7.x and then to IIS 8....
Date: 05/26/2013
HTTP to HTTPS redirects on IIS 7.x and higher
Updated post on 8th May 2017 This is the most common requirement on most of the Exchange...
Date: 05/22/2013
Publishing from Dropbox to Windows Azure Web Sites
Recently Dropbox was added to Windows Azure as yet another source control which could be used for...
Date: 04/19/2013
Retrieving MySQL connection string from Windows Azure Web Sites aka ANTARES
In my previous post, click here, I mentioned and described few of the features of WAWS, cloud...
Date: 03/08/2013
Introduction to WINDOWS AZURE WEB SITES aka ANTARES
With the dawn of CLOUD COMPUTING, every one is betting big time on cloud. I might be little late to...
Date: 03/06/2013
Self-Signed, Root CA and Intermediate CA Certificates
In this article I will be discussing about the following: Self-Signed Certificate Root CA...
Date: 01/09/2013
Disable Client Certificate Revocation (CRL) Check on IIS
I have been asked this question on several occasions on how to disable revocation check in IIS 7....
Date: 10/15/2012
Central Certificate Store (CCS) with IIS 8 (Windows Server 2012)
In my previous posts on IIS 8, I discussed how scalability was achieved in IIS 8 via SNI....
Date: 10/11/2012
Error HRESULT: 0x80070520 when adding SSL binding in IIS
Today I will be discussing the very infamous error that is seen while adding a SSL binding in IIS 7...
Date: 10/07/2012
SSL/TLS Alert Protocol & the Alert Codes
There have been many occasions where a event corresponding to SChannel is logged in the System event...
Date: 10/05/2012
Do we need to install/move IIS related folders to a non-System drive?
It is not possible to install IIS on a non-system drive. Well “not possible” may be too restrictive,...
Date: 09/19/2012
ISAPI Filter to reject HTTP/1.0 requests
There is a known problem on IIS where the IP Address is leaked in the content-location header of the...
Date: 09/13/2012
Troubleshooting SSL related issues on IIS
One of my article has been published on IIS.NET on how to troubleshoot SSL related issues. Here is...
Date: 09/11/2012
Server Name Indication (SNI) with IIS 8 (Windows Server 2012)
In my previous article I discussed on how scalability was achieved in IIS 8. Here is the...
Date: 09/04/2012
SSL Scalability with IIS 8 (Windows 8 Server)
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Date: 08/08/2012
Installing WIRESHARK/WinPCap on Windows 8 RTM
Windows 8 was RTM’d last week and as a curious soul I...
Date: 08/07/2012
I don’t see Content-Encoding header in IE HTTP debugger (F12 Developer Tools)
Recently one of my colleagues came across with an...
Date: 07/23/2012
How to create a Self-Signed SAN Certificate in Windows 8
One of the cool features of Windows 8 is the improved set of PowerShell commandlets that have been...
Date: 07/20/2012
Using DebugDiag to capture a dump on First Chance Exception
Capturing memory dumps is a most common ask while troubleshooting performance related issues with...
Date: 05/09/2012
Unable to browse a CGI application scripted in PERL: 500-Internal Server Error
Recently I had to troubleshoot a issue where the users were reporting the following error while...
Date: 02/19/2012
Client Certificates V/s Server Certificates
In the past I have blogged about various certificate file extensions along with their usage. Here is...
Date: 02/17/2012