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…
Checking the Status of an Azure Web App Swap using PowerShell
This past week I was working with a customer who wanted to check the status of a swap with an Azure Web App using TFS. One option would be to use the Swap deployment task and the other would be to query the status using PowerShell. In order to do so we query the Activity…
