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Job scheduling in Windows Azure
A few days ago Scott Guthrie announced yet another update to Windows Azure. The great thing about this update is that it adds job scheduler support to Mobile Services. This means you can now create...
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Build your own SQL Server Agent for Windows Azure SQL Database with the...
If you worked with the Windows Azure SQL Database in the past you’ll know that there is no support for SQL Server Agent jobs. According to the official guidelines you should use a SQL Server Agent...
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Mounting your Azure File Shares on-premises through WebDAV
In last week's post we looked at how we could use Azure Files to run a high-available, distributed FTP Server in Azure. This opens up a few interesting integration opportunities between processes...
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My talk at AzureConf 2014: Meet Azure Files, your new Swiss Army Knife
On October 21st, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf, another free event for the Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions...
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Managing your Azure resources in Visual Studio with your Microsoft Account
The Azure SDK is what makes it possible to manage resources in one or more Azure subscriptions from within Visual Studio. You'll find it in the Server Explorer next to the Data Connections, SharePoint...
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Backend-less applications with Auth0 and Azure Table Storage
There are plenty of scenarios where mobile applications don't need a backend, but where an online, centralized data store is still required. To save a user profile, pictures, documents, settings,...
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Using Auth0 and the Belgian eID card to secure your Web/Cloud/AngularJS...
The Belgian eID is a smartcard which contains the name, date of birth, address, picture of a Belgian citizen and almost everyone in Belgium has one. Now because of the nation wide availability of this...
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Updated RedDog Search and the RedDog Search Portal to Azure Search...
For today's session on Azure Search here at Mobile Dev Day we updated both RedDog.Search and the RedDog Search Portal to match the latest version of the REST API, 2014-10-20-Preview. These changes...
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Awarded Microsoft Azure MVP and joining Auth0
Microsoft Azure MVP I've worked with the Microsoft Azure platform for quite some time now and the last few years it's been more than a full-time job. Besides my job I've been doing a lot of other...
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Transferring your Auth0 audit logs to Application Insights using a scheduled...
If you're using the Microsoft Azure platform might be doing some monitoring of your applications with Application Insights. So wouldn't it be nice if you could take logs from third party services...
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Using ADAL and the Azure Resource Manager REST API from within a Webtask
In my previous blog posts I already covered a few interesting use cases for the Webtask platform. The goal for this post is to lay a foundation that we can use in a next series of posts to do some cool...
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Connecting Auth0 to Power BI with Stream Analytics and a Webtask
My previous blog post briefly covered a few use cases for Webtask and showed how to use a Webtask to transfer Auth0 logs to Application Insights. In this post we'll take it a step further and show how...
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Create advanced webhooks for Azure Automation with a Webtask
Azure Automation already supports webhooks but these are currently scoped to a single runbook. This post explains how you can use a Webtask to send secret settings (encrypted), internal settings (which...
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ChatOps! Deploy and manage complete environments on Azure using ... Slack!
At Auth0 we host things on different cloud providers. Our test environments we use for the appliance run on AWS and Azure. Now when we want to do some manual testing we might want to restore a specific...
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Introducing node-armclient, the lightweight Node.js client for Azure Resource...
Azure Resource Manager is a great way to manage an deploy your Azure resources in a consistent way. There are quite a few SDKs available for Azure Resource Manager (including Node.js). While the...
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Azure Functions - Rotate the secret of your HttpTrigger functions
When you create an HttpTrigger function in Azure Functions the URL for this function will look like this:...
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Using Auth0 for authentication in your Azure Functions (HttpTrigger)
Azure Functions supports different types of bindings (going from Queue messages to Timers). When end users / applications need to talk directly to a function this happens over the Http Trigger. By...
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