Troubleshooting SMTP issues/Sending emails from Azure Web Apps
In the past year I’ve come across a number of issues related to sending emails from web apps that work locally but when a customer is developing or deploying to an Azure Web App, the connection fails. Here are some straightforward step by step troubleshooting steps to isolate platform vs your code. 1. Are you…
Using MSI with PowerShell in an Azure Function for AzureRM Commands
Here’s a quick tutorial for using MSI with PowerShell in an Azure function to call Login-AzureRMAccount. Note that Functions using PowerShell are in experimental so its not recommended for production use as the same SLA for Generally Available resources doesn’t reflect to preview/experimental resources. This allows you to not have to worry about creating a…
Automate the Creation of an Azure Function with an Event Grid Subscription in PowerShell
My colleague, Sangita Bhor, was recently working on a case where we needed to automate the deployment of an Azure Function and Event Grid Subscription. The difficulty here is that there isn’t an API from functions to get the web hook needed on the Event Grid Subscription side. The script below shows you how to…
Using Azure Alert with a Function App and Azure SDK
Update: Added the code and folder structure to GitHub: https://github.com/jcbrooks92/AzureSDKFunctionAppVMCreationAlert I was helping a customer out the other day who wanted to configure a Azure Function App to pull the private IP of a newly created Azure VM to use for their backend tasks on premises. They had setup an Azure Alert which can be…
