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Creating a VHD from ISO using WIM2VHD Convert-WindowsImage …

  This script here helps in creating VHD’s on the fly. Recently I needed to quickly create some VHDX from an ISO that are “arm-able” »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 07 December 2015

Simple Azure Blob Storage Performance (upload) testing

Azure Blob Storage Perf Testing Tool This is a simple testing tool using Mocha that provides upload speed testing when modifying the parallelOperationThreadCount setting that is »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Testing 17 September 2015

Using Multiple Devices for 2-step verification to save time !

2-step verification is becoming more prevalent. This is the process where when you logon to a web site, or application, you might provide something you know »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Active Directory, Azure, Security 10 September 2015

Federation Metadata generation tool on Github

I get from various folks some requests for updates, information, etc. about this tool, so, I’ve put it up on Github so others can just »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, ADFS, ASP.NET, Azure, Security 05 September 2015

CSL for Pace University–IEEE based using custom author sort

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only"> »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 12 July 2015

Cleaning up IIS Express sites v2

This one deals with a single site… Again, I’m a tidy person. $appCmd = "C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" $result = Invoke-Command -Command {& »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 01 July 2015

Cheap and easy IP blocking in Azure Web Apps

Sometimes you just need to resort to something simple. I don’t recommend this in anyway for a real security plan / hardening. You should be using »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 01 July 2015

AngularJS intellisense NuGet package added

Using the work of John Bledsoe, a NuGet package has been added that takes a dependency on AngularJS.Core – and provides the angular.intellisense.js file »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, ASP.NET, Development 27 February 2015

Troubleshooting tool–Azure WebJob TCP Ping

I’ve dropped a quick Visual Studio solution that has a simple Azure WebJob intended to run Continuously that does a Socket open (TCPPing) for a »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Troubleshooting 15 February 2015

Azure Resource Manager–Creating an IaaS VM within a VNET

NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available for update and registered »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Cloud, Infrastructure 12 February 2015

Azure Resource Manager – Creating Storage Accounts

NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Cloud, Infrastructure, REST 09 February 2015

Azure Resource Manager– Creating a Resource Group and a VNET

NOTE: Azure Resource manager is in Preview. Thus, anything posted here may change. However, the approach for identifying what resources are available updatable, and registered for »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Cloud, Infrastructure, REST, Windows Azure 09 February 2015

Azure Resource Manager – Adding and Assigning Certificates to a Website

Overview This post is going to cover working with Azure Resource Manager using the REST interfaces [1] and specifically the “Microsoft.Web/sites” and “Microsoft.Web/ »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Active Directory, Azure 31 January 2015

Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker

Ahmet has (@ahmetalpbalkan) posted an official walkthrough on getting ASP.NET 5 running under Docker in Linux.  This takes you from a Docker client running »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 14 January 2015

PDF Search Handler fix

Adobe keeps breaking my PDF search.  WHY WHY WHY…   reg ADD HKCR\.pdf\PersistentHandler /d {1AA9BF05-9A97-48c1-BA28-D9DCE795E93C} /f »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 11 December 2014

Running the AspNet vNext MVC sample direct from Docker

In the post Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container you had to step through downloading GO, building »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, ASP.NET, Docker, Linux 24 November 2014

Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container

Update: 2015-01-15 – Note that Ahmet has posted an official Docker walkthrough for ASP.NET 5 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/01/14/running-asp-net-5-applications-in-linux-containers-with-docker. »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, .NET, ASP.NET, Cloud, Docker, Linux 23 November 2014

Useful Machine Learning and HDInsight / Hadoop Links Posts and Information

Updates: Initial Post: 2014-11-17 As many ramp up on Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, I wanted to start keeping a succinct list of many of the articles, »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, Hadoop, HDInsight, Machine Learning 17 November 2014

SharePoint 2013 Fixing WCAG F38 Failure–Images without ALT tags–using a Control Adapter–Display Templates

The WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) provide a baseline for accessibility standards so various tools, such as screen readers, can provide a reasonable experience for those »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 06 November 2014

Why you should never say “Turn ON Intranet Settings” in Internet Explorer IE

I recently checked into a hotel – connected to their guest wireless – and I start noticing odd things with some websites. UPDATE: corrected title to conform to »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 26 October 2014

Getting Docker Running on Hyper-V 8.1/ 2012 R2

Running Docker locally on a Windows machine is generally not an issue; unless you've committed to using Hyper-V. Since the Docker install for Windows relies on »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure 09 October 2014

Issues with OneDrive for business and Document Cache–Don’t mix C2R and MSI installs

With the latest updates to Office, an issue that rears it’s ugly head if you’ve mixed both C2R and MSI installs of »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 24 September 2014

SharePoint 2013 Farm in Less than an Hour–New Azure Portal and Azure Templates

Soon, you’ll be able to author your own templates, but as of today, you can provision an 3 Machine SharePoint 2013 Farm – have it running »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, Azure, AzurePortal, SharePoint 14 July 2014

Disabling HyperV on Surface Pro 3 So Connected Standby will work or not work–depending on your mood

If you’re received your SP3 and you enabled HyperV you may have noticed that Connected Standby (new to x64) will then be disabled. You’ll »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized, HyperV, Surface 23 June 2014

Comparing Hash of downloaded Files with PowerShell

I can’t claim 99% of this – main credit to : http://www.tinyint.com/index.php/2011/09/14/get-an-md5-or-sha1-checksum-with-powershell/ Param ( [string]$File=$(throw("You must »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 18 April 2014

WOPI Host Sample has been updated…

The solution and project have been updated to MVC5, and Web API 2.  In addition, editing PowerPoint (PPTX), and Excel files has been added.  »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 31 January 2014

Fiddler and Direct Access

Fiddler puts some stuff in the registry that breaks Direct Access. The following will cleanup after Fiddler runs reg delete HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iphlpsvc\Parameters\ »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 16 December 2013

Updating email address for SharePoint online users if they’re a Live / Microsoft Account…

If you have a SharePoint online ()365) site, and you invite users that logon with a “Microsoft Account”, those users won’t be able to receive »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 20 November 2013

Why it doesn’t take an army to build a usable web site…

We should hopefully learn a lesson from how http://healthcare.gov was build vs. http://www.thehealthsherpa.com/ http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2013/11/12/ »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 17 November 2013

Running ASP.NET admin site from command line

Great tip from Dominic Baer.   http://leastprivilege.com/2012/06/28/managing-asp-net-membership-and-roles-without-visual-studio/       & ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer\ »

Shawn Cicoria Shawn Cicoria on Uncategorized 26 September 2013
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