Creating Certificate Bundles for Application Gateway
There are certain clients that still require a full certificate chain as they may return certificate errors. Certain web servers like IIS can build the chain while others may not serve the full certificate chain in the Server Certificate exchange. Here’s a step-by-step process going through how to detect if this is an issue and…
Application Initialization with Azure Functions
TL/DR You can warm up a function app using an applicationhost.config transform with an appliationhost.xdt. This ONLY works with Windows as application initialization is a concept built into IIS. I’m not aware of the same feature set available in Linux. Skip to the config section for the transformation setup. Background A couple months ago I…
Troubleshooting App Initialization (IIS Warmup) on Azure Web Apps
Troubleshooting App Init (IIS Warmup) Lately our team has been getting a higher load of issues related to customers trying to utilize the Application Initialization Module. This module is handy feature that allows you to warm your app prior to the application receiving requests to help avoid the dreaded cold-start or slow initial load times…
Automate the Creation of an Azure Function with an Event Grid Subscription in PowerShell
****This blog is out of date due to the new Eventgrid and functions integrations****** My colleague, Sangita Bhor, was recently working on a case where we needed to automate the deployment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…
Webjobs disappear from the Azure Web Apps
The first thing to check if you are using Visual Studios to deploy your web app is to check the Publish Settings for your web app. Expand the File Publish Options and make sure the setting “Remove additional files at destination”. If this setting is enabled, all the application files including webjobs will be deleted…
