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Recently I’ve been looking at using traffic manager to front up websites hosted in Azure Websites. I needed to setup a custom domain name instead of using mydomain.trafficmanager.net. In order to use Traffic Manager with an Azure website the website needs to be setup using a Standard Hosting Plan. Each website you want …

I’ve been setting up one of our services as the backend service for Azure API management. Part of this process we have mapped DNS to point to the service. As the service is hosted in Azure Websites there are now two urls that exist which can be used to access the service. I wanted to stop a user from accessing the site …

Yesterday Scott Guthrie announced a number of enhancements to Microsoft Azure. One of the enhancements is the General Availability of Azure Media Services Live Media Streaming. This gives us the ability to stream live events on a service that has already been used to deliver big events such as the 2014 Sochi Winter …

One of the conundrums we have with deploying sites to test means that there is often a lot of configuration that is needed on a test site that is different to a live site. There is also the time and risk of deploying a new instance into the production sites once testing has completed. Azure websites has introduced …

When an Azure Website is created and is in production it will most likely be running in a Standard or Basic configuration. These are both sets of Virtual Machines and can be shared across your websites. In the old portal you could only scale the group of websites together but the new Azure Management portal now allows …

1. Use public on the main program class.In order for web jobs to initialise correctly the main class that contains the web jobs needs to be made public. Once this has been added the individual jobs can then be read and should be visible in the output when running locally.
2. In order to store and view the invocation …

I’m investigating the Azure Service Bus Event Hub using the getting started tutorial and I didn’t seem to be able to receive any data. It turns out that our firewall was blocking an outbound port. After some investigation I found a post which hinted at a port for the on premise service bus. Our IT guys kindly enabled …

Internet of Things seems to bring together two of my favourite topics: Gadgeteer and Service Bus. Whilst researching IoT I came across an article in MSDN magazine written by Clemens Vasters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj190807.aspx). This article is from July 2012 and things have moved on a little since …

With the announcement of an upgrade to the webjobs service in Microsoft Azure service bus triggers to Topics and Queues were added. This got me thinking about how they could be used and there are a lot of scenarios where events need to trigger simple actions as well as running things off of a timer. Utilising Service …