Getting started with your preparation for Azure Certifications

Since last week when I completed my Azure certifications at Microsoft Ignite, many people have reached out to me to provide guidance on preparing for Microsoft certifications for Azure. In this multi-blog series, I am going to cover what different Azure certifications are available and what are the different resources to prepare for them. I’ll … Read more

Switching modes in Cloud Shell running in Windows Terminal

I have been using Cloud shell for most of my day-to-day work for managing Azure resources – I have been using cloud shell through Azure portal until recently when I have installed Windows Terminal which is in Preview mode and supports multiple tabbed consoles. I have setup Windows Terminal to support Cloud Shell as well, … Read more

“InvalidTemplateDeployment” error while deploying ARM Template

I was working on a PowerShell script today to deploy a service fabric cluster using ARM template and came across a weird error – The template deployment ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’. See inner errors for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deploy for usage details.   It was … Read more

What is: Azure Storage Blob?

Microsoft Azure Storage provides an unstructured storage service for binary and text data known as Blob. It can be used to store any form of data including audio, video, images, documents and other media files. It can be accessed over the internet via HTTP or HTTPS, though the access can be controlled. The data stored in … Read more

How to: Remotely debug an Azure Web APP?

This post is in continuation of the post where I have explained how to host an Azure web app. In this post, I am going to show how to debug an Azure web app remotely. For the demo purpose, I have created a new web project and published the website on Azure following the steps in … Read more