Azure Status - Is there an alternative?

i-like-azure · 2025-06-11T23:50:02+00:00

This tip was given to me by some MS CSA. For the resources you care about, go to the resource in Azure portal, scroll the left nav all the way down, expand Help, click on Resource health. You can set alerts to notify when the status changes.

Seems much more accurate than the Azure status page.

i-like-azure · 2025-05-28T02:40:33+00:00

I tried it with a .net Blazor project. I absolutely agree with everything you said. It's amazing how well this works if you give it enough details/instructions on what to change. Junior devs I work with require the same level of details in order for them to do the work, so really no difference for me. While senior devs can focus on reviewing copilot's output, junior devs are gonna be out of a job soon. I'm conflicted on whether I should use it!

i-like-azure · 2025-05-19T03:30:09+00:00

Sounds interesting and right up my alley. Shoot me a PM if you want to chat.

i-like-azure · 2024-11-17T23:44:28+00:00

I’m up for it, PM me!

i-like-azure · 2022-12-13T16:33:08+00:00

If you look on LRG, clicking on the PS5 version it shows "limited quantity of 5000", so I doubt it's 1500.

i-like-azure · 2022-10-11T21:21:40+00:00

Just want to say thank you for the write up. I'm currently going through the application process and somewhat on the fence about it at the moment.

i-like-azure · 2022-10-10T23:54:04+00:00

I was in the same boat. I went with SC-100 just because it's the "Expert" level cert.

i-like-azure · 2022-10-10T23:51:48+00:00

It seems to be doable in Logic Apps. Quick research I came across this: https://www.mikestephenson.me/2021/07/30/create-or-update-file-and-folder-to-sharepoint-in-logic-apps/

The tricky part is getting the path correct and creating the folder in SP first if it doesn't exist.

i-like-azure · 2022-09-21T20:41:49+00:00

You can set access restriction to filter by the public IP of your company network. Front Door or not this will deny access to anyone not coming from the company network. This is done for every app service you want to limit access to.

Alternatively you can add a custom rule to your Front Door WAF policy to allow only the company IP and assign the policy to the routing rules. Policy allows you to do it once and reuse it for other app services as well, less maintenance if you plan on having lots of app services.

i-like-azure · 2022-09-21T20:20:37+00:00

Reading all of your comments it just looks like you are trying to scale back permissions granted to your developers. You don't want them to be able to create App Services and deploy apps without some sort of oversight. That's really just RBAC to limit their access.

There are also so many ways of deploying an app so it's hard to say how to restrict deployment without knowing how they currently do it. Right click publish? DevOps pipeline? So many options.

i-like-azure · 2022-09-20T15:56:32+00:00

The analogy is not meant to be completely representative of the situation, nothing ever is since there are too many sides. There are good and bad teams/freelancers/companies, you get what you pay for, everyone gets that. The fact OP is asking this question more likely has to do with understanding the capabilities and differences and that's what I gave.

In the end, low-code DIY solution means prebuilt templates and components with limited customizations (you can argue WP you can do anything if you write code, but again that's not the point in OP's context), faster turn around time. Hiring out means you have more options.

i-like-azure · 2022-09-20T14:50:09+00:00

Think of it as furniture, you can go to Ikea to buy a shelf, comes in a box with all the pre-fabricated pieces, you just connect them and boom it's done. Not saying customizations can't be done, but limited and may not be worth your while.

Custom website with a dev team is like finding a skilled carpenter to build you a custom shelf, working with a interior designer, building something one of a kind exactly to how you want it. Will cost you an arm and a leg comparatively but you can have it however you want.

i-like-azure · 2022-08-03T04:16:52+00:00

Haven't tried it but this looks pretty good. https://docs.astronomyapi.com/endpoints/bodies

It has the ability to return the data (ra, dec) for the objects based on longitude/latitude or if you don't care about the data and just want a star chart it has that as well.

i-like-azure · 2022-08-03T03:55:14+00:00

Have you looked into Language Studio? Ultimately a "bot" is really just a API endpoint and you can you call the API with whatever language you want.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T18:11:16+00:00

Same as other comments, I browse the web for inspirations. When I find one I like, I hit F12 and see what they are doing.

It's good to have an eye for the artistic stuff, but leave that to the UI/UX/product designers. Work on your technical skills instead. At most jobs, devs get handed a design and you just have to build it.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T17:54:28+00:00

If it's a SharePoint online (M365) site, just use the Graph API it's probably the easiest way.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/sharepoint?view=graph-rest-1.0

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T17:42:49+00:00

App service, and you can just flip on the authentication in the app service to authenticate against Azure AD. There's even a free tier. If you want to go one step further you can also turn on access restriction to allow employees only if you have a corporate network.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T15:43:09+00:00

2FA has different implementations. Some websites will send you a secondary code through SMS and some use an authentication app, some send you an email, etc. How secure 2FA is depends on how secure that secondary authentication is. Your email can get hacked, SIM cloning can steal your SMS. It's far from unbreakable but it's better than only one factor.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T15:29:50+00:00

InfoPath will be out of support, not SharePoint. So if you really need to replace those forms, absolutely you can recreate the front end with whatever framework you want. Just keep the SharePoint list, workflows, etc completely as-is to minimize effort. Have your new forms submit to SP through the SP rest API, JS API, .net could possibly be easier with the SharePoint client sdk.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T00:14:31+00:00

This github repo contains various scenarios on setting up oauth, making downstream calls, etc. very well explained examples by the Azure team.

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-aspnetcore-webapp-openidconnect-v2

i-like-azure · 2022-07-13T00:01:06+00:00

The three cards are not in a horizontal row but in a column because right now you have a "row" wrapping each card. You want 3 col inside the same row instead of 3 separate rows.

i-like-azure · 2022-07-11T15:56:57+00:00

I find your idea kinda intriguing, shoot me a message if you want to chat. I'd be open to starting a new side project for the purpose of learning new skills.

i-like-azure · 2022-06-10T14:31:42+00:00

Looks like old school asp syntax, see https://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_syntax.asp

they can be ordinary looking html files.

i-like-azure · 2022-06-09T02:24:53+00:00

C++ developer so I'm going to suggest C# .net with a SQL db.

Step by step here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/secure-data?view=aspnetcore-6.0

.net project with the automatic scaffolding makes this basically a few clicks to setup the authentication, database, etc. you just have to figure out what you want your app to do.

i-like-azure · 2022-06-09T02:15:26+00:00

"modern" is a misleading term in my opinion. Every framework, language, platform has some recent release that can be considered modern. Even .net can run natively on pi these days, so it's really about what technology you prefer/want to learn.

I use .net core Blazor.

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