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Adding tags to resources in Azure is generally a good idea. This helps administrators manage billing, knowing what things are and when they can be safely decommissioned etc..
I have includes here some guidance and useful scripts for adding tags and managing tags on resources and resource groups.
Continue reading “Resource Tag management in Microsoft Azure”
If you’re a developer on Windows or a.Net developer getting to grips with Angular the steps outlined will create the various certificates and get local Angular 4 running under SSL.
The main steps are as follows and you will need to have installed makecert.exe and openSSL. For us Windows users the easiest way to get OpenSSL is to use one of the binaries installer listed here https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries Continue reading “Creating developer certificates and starting Angular 4 for SSL on Windows”
Here’s what to do if you get the “Xcode license must be accepted in order to be connected and working against a Mac”.
Continue reading “Xamarin – Mac Agent can’t connect fix – ‘xcode license must be accepted…’”
By default a ‘Registered Application’ account is not a member of any Directory Roles and/or group memberships and there is no easy way to make these changes using the portal. You may have an API or back-end application that will be required to perform actions on your AD that requires elevated permissions (e.g. Reset passwords or delete accounts etc..)
Normally for advanced configuration, you will need to start editing the manifest file. Luckily this has been made easy using the Portal. You can now edit the file directly, or download, make changes and then upload.
However, to make a ‘Registered Application’ a member of a ‘Directory Administrative Role’ you need to use PowerShell to add the role member to the ‘Service Principal’ (as I couldn’t find a way to do this in the manifest!).
Thanks to Simon J.K. Pedersen (https://github.com/sjkp) there is now a reasonably easy way to get auto-updating “Let’s Encrypt” SSL certificates in you Azure App Services using the “Azure Let’s Encrypt” Extension (https://github.com/sjkp/letsencrypt-siteextension).
There are some very comprehensive install and setup steps here https://github.com/sjkp/letsencrypt-siteextension/wiki/How-to-install
Continue reading “Let’s Encrypt Extension for Azure App Services”
You may have discovered that deleting an Azure Active Directory is a particularly frustrating experience that ultimately ends in failure. The new portal have improved things a bit, by running through a series of check before the delete button is enabled.
You may need to go back to the Classic portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) to see some of the objects/resources to delete.
However, although this will help you remove ‘most’ of what you need to, unfortunately NOT all!
In this case I got a “Unable to delete directory”
Continue reading “How to delete an Azure Active Directory (ADD) Tenant”