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” »
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 »
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 »
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 »
CSL for Pace University–IEEE based using custom author sort
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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 {& »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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/ »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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. »
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, »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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. »
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\ »
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 »
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/ »
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\ »