The Problem

Recently an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a .NET 6 based Azure Functions started to fail on some of our self-hosted build agents with the error

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Around a year ago I posted on 'Social Media Posts after Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Static Pages'. Recently I have found that the Twitter functionality in my Logic App was failing.

Turns out this was due to the changes in the Twitter Free API, with them moving from V1 to V2 which requires OAuth authentication as …

Updated: 19 Jul 2023 - Revised the post to use Az CLI Task as opposed to a PowerShell Task

Updated: 29 Aug 2024 - Revised the PowerShell as original version was not working. Also see follow up post on using Workload Identity federation

Background

Azure DevOps Pipelines have a built in mechanism to run maintenance …

Background

Strong Names provide .NET Framework assemblies with unique identities. When the .NET Framework loads a strong-named assembly for a referring assembly, it verifies the strong name signature. If the strong name signature of the assembly cannot be verified, the .NET Framework will not load the assembly.

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Integrate 2023

I recently had the pleasure of going to Integrate 2023, a 3-day event with lot’s of great speakers in the Microsoft Integration space. I learnt a lot about Azure Integration Services that will help me with my long-term development. But I …

In a modern hybrid cloud world we have to accept constant change as the norm. You can't just build something and forget about it. You have to keep it up to date as newer tools/libraries appear. This is to at least address security issues, even if you don't want to adopt the new features.

So I am expecting a degree of …

Background

One of the fundamental parts to BizTalk for both configuration and integration applications is Enterprise Single Sign On, or as we will continue to reference as SSO from now on.

SSO outside the bounds of BizTalk is an available service that is used to store and transmit encrypted user credentials. However, …

Background

An Azure Tenant is hierarchically structured with the following make up:

• Tenant
• One or more Management Groups
• One or more Subscriptions
• One or more Resource groups
• One or more Resources

Deployment Scopes {Tenant, Management Group, Subscription, Resource Group} allow us to deploy respective types of …

I posted a while ago about how I had automated the generation of social media posts for my static Hugo based website using Azure Logic Apps.

The other place I auto-generate social media posts is from releases via my project's Azure DevOps Pipeline builds. These use a YAML Pipeline Template that calls a Marketplace task …