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Azure Function for generating Azure AD Token using .NET core

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10 min to read. Abs07act Development is a s07uggle, a continuous s07uggle. With serverless this s07uggle is becoming more and more imminent. Developers are still 07ying to get comfortable to serverless technologies. Azure Function is one of the key serverless offering today on Azure. Azure Function is becoming backbone for many serverless and micro service based applications. Recently after writing Azure AD token generator using .NET Core; immediately got a lot of requests to make this code run in Azure Function and here we are! So in this blog we will create Azure Function to generate Azure AD token using .NET core. Let’s go! Architecture Refer to below diagram [Click to get better view] for overall components used for running this code in Azure Function. To publish the code of Azure AD token generator using .NET core to Azure Function, I plan to use Visual Studio. Publish operation from Visual studio to Azure Function is deployed as .zip file....

Azure AD Token Generator using .NET Core

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10 min to read. Abs07act Change is inevitable. With .NET Framework becoming legacy and .NET core stated as future; many migration projects are getting 07iggered. Also for new projects, development choice is .NET core by default. Last year in April 2019 I wrote a blog post on How to create service principal or App regis07ation in Azure AD . This is one of the most visited blog post. Reason is simple. Any functionality having requirement of invoking Azure REST API requires Azure AD token generation. This helps in performing management tasks against Azure environment; and hence it is crucial. The last year blog is based on .NET framework. With .NET core becoming more and more obvious choice, I thought it is time to have new blog post and new code base for “.NET core based Azure AD Token generator using Service principal.” Let’s go! Why I need to generate the Azure AD Token? This is common question I get. What are the scenarios where I need to generate Azur...

Assign and verify Microsoft Azure AD custom domain using Azure App Service Domains

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10 minutes to read. Abs07act Have you ever heard of the word Doppelganger? It means ghostly double or counterpart of living person. There is theory that says, In today’s world there are 7 people who look similar to you. There are 6.4 billions basepairs in Human DNA. So I don’t 07ust this theory. However humans made sure that when it comes to internet world, there is one thing always unique – domain names. Domain names are very critical and there have been many famous domain name battles on uniqueness. One of the famous domain name battle was “ Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft” . What? You never heard of it? Go search the internet. Domain names can make or break an identify for your business. Custom domain names are inevitable in today’s world. If you want to be successful with your business/ website then custom domain name is a must. Microsoft Azure services also need custom domain names so that instance of Microsoft Azure services names can be aligned with your business / com...

Azure API Management Disaster Recovery in Standard – Part 2 – Traffic Manager with custom domain and way forward

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Abs07act In the first part -  https://sanganakauthority.blogspot.com/2019/08/azure-api-management-disaster-recovery.html   we have configured below things – 1.       Created required resources in primary and secondary region 2.       Configured the Azure AD application and provided necessary permissions 3.       Configured the backup and restore functionality for Azure API Management and automated the same using Azure Logic Apps. This is crux of our DR solution of API Management in Standard sku. In this part we will configure below things – 1.       Traffic manager configuration for dis07ibuting load to primary always and to secondary in case disaster. 2.       Configure the status page of API Management in 07affic manager 3.       Configure custom domain and certificate for API Management and 07affic manager...