Day 2 – Microsoft Ignite 2019

Hello friends, The second day at Ignite started with a bang for me. I got my front row seat reserved in Scott Hanselman’s keynote session. It was an awesome keynote with some really cool demos. After Scott’s session, I headed to wrap up a couple of Azure certifications – AZ-400 and AZ-500. I am glad … Read more

Day 1 – Microsoft Ignite 2019

This is my first Microsoft Ignite and I am just loving it. It was an amazing first day with 30000+ attendees present in Orange County Convention center in Orlando, Fl. Here is a summary of my experience so far – It all started Saturday when I landed here in Orlando. I’ve picked up my badge … 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