Azure Resource Manager – Creating Storage Accounts
NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »
Azure Resource Manager– Creating a Resource Group and a VNET
NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »
Azure Resource Manager – Adding and Assigning Certificates to a Website
Overview This post is going to cover working with Azure Resource Manager using the REST interfaces [1] and specifically the “Microsoft.Web/sites” and “Microsoft.Web/ »
Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker
Ahmet has (@ahmetalpbalkan) posted an official walkthrough on getting ASP.NET 5 running under Docker in Linux. This takes you from a Docker client running »
PDF Search Handler fix
Adobe keeps breaking my PDF search. WHY WHY WHY… reg ADD HKCR\.pdf\PersistentHandler /d {1AA9BF05-9A97-48c1-BA28-D9DCE795E93C} /f »
Running the AspNet vNext MVC sample direct from Docker
In the post Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container you had to step through downloading GO, building »
Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container
Update: 2015-01-15 – Note that Ahmet has posted an official Docker walkthrough for ASP.NET 5 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/01/14/running-asp-net-5-applications-in-linux-containers-with-docker. »
Useful Machine Learning and HDInsight / Hadoop Links Posts and Information
Updates: Initial Post: 2014-11-17 As many ramp up on Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, I wanted to start keeping a succinct list of many of the articles, »
SharePoint 2013 Fixing WCAG F38 Failure–Images without ALT tags–using a Control Adapter–Display Templates
The WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) provide a baseline for accessibility standards so various tools, such as screen readers, can provide a reasonable experience for those »
Why you should never say “Turn ON Intranet Settings” in Internet Explorer IE
I recently checked into a hotel – connected to their guest wireless – and I start noticing odd things with some websites. UPDATE: corrected title to conform to »
Getting Docker Running on Hyper-V 8.1/ 2012 R2
Running Docker locally on a Windows machine is generally not an issue; unless you've committed to using Hyper-V. Since the Docker install for Windows relies on »
Issues with OneDrive for business and Document Cache–Don’t mix C2R and MSI installs
With the latest updates to Office, an issue that rears it’s ugly head if you’ve mixed both C2R and MSI installs of »
SharePoint 2013 Farm in Less than an Hour–New Azure Portal and Azure Templates
Soon, you’ll be able to author your own templates, but as of today, you can provision an 3 Machine SharePoint 2013 Farm – have it running »
Disabling HyperV on Surface Pro 3 So Connected Standby will work or not work–depending on your mood
If you’re received your SP3 and you enabled HyperV you may have noticed that Connected Standby (new to x64) will then be disabled. You’ll »
Comparing Hash of downloaded Files with PowerShell
I can’t claim 99% of this – main credit to : http://www.tinyint.com/index.php/2011/09/14/get-an-md5-or-sha1-checksum-with-powershell/ Param ( [string]$File=$(throw("You must »
WOPI Host Sample has been updated…
The solution and project have been updated to MVC5, and Web API 2. In addition, editing PowerPoint (PPTX), and Excel files has been added. »
Fiddler and Direct Access
Fiddler puts some stuff in the registry that breaks Direct Access. The following will cleanup after Fiddler runs reg delete HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iphlpsvc\Parameters\ »
Updating email address for SharePoint online users if they’re a Live / Microsoft Account…
If you have a SharePoint online ()365) site, and you invite users that logon with a “Microsoft Account”, those users won’t be able to receive »
Why it doesn’t take an army to build a usable web site…
We should hopefully learn a lesson from how http://healthcare.gov was build vs. http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/ http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2013/11/12/ »
Running ASP.NET admin site from command line
Great tip from Dominic Baer. http://leastprivilege.com/2012/06/28/managing-asp-net-membership-and-roles-without-visual-studio/ & ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer\ »
Host named site collections and Web Application Extensions
The question came up about whether the mix of an SharePoint 2013 extended web application that may have different authentication providers, could also support Host Named »
Building an Office Web Apps (OWA) WOPI Host
UPDATE: January 31, 2014 The solution and project have been updated to MVC5, and Web API 2. In addition, editing PowerPoint (PPTX), and Excel files »
Getting a user’s SID via PowerShell…
For future ref… $user = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("contoso", "user") $sid = $user.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) $sid.Value »
Planning Poker Win8 App.
Check out an in process App for Win 8 that makes use of TFS OData for planning poker http://www.teamplanningpoker.com/HowTo/Win8/CreateYourFirstPlanningPokerSession About: »
Office Web Apps–WOPI Host and url paths
If you’re following along with the post on creating a WOPI host, it’s never fully apparent that you MUST adhere to the path shown »
Note to self–SQL Alias on x64–you need to set both 32/64 cliconfg.exe
1. Start “C:\windows\system32\cliconfg.exe” 2. Start “C:\windows\syswow64\cliconfg.exe” »
Office 365 SharePoint and PDF files…
Recently, O365 added some server side rendering of PDF files. Problem is if you have PDF files and an anonymous site, if a user clicks »
NuPattern - Home
More from the OuterCurve foundation: NuPattern is a set of tools and framework that make it easy to create your own branded custom tooling and automation »
Using S2S for On-Premises Access with Forms Based Access (FBA) in SharePoint 2013
The below diagram represents the flow and interaction when a user, from an external application, makes a OAuth protected call to a SharePoint site. This approach »
Spelunking with the SharePoint 2013 App AppContext Tokens and StandardTokens
When writing SharePoint 2013 Provider hosted (autohosted too), SharePoint 2013 Apps provide an App context token, along with other information as part of the initial transition »