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Desired State Configuration | Project DSC

Problem Space I have often found myself with a peeked interest into any method that will simplify both the on-boarding and return to a given project. Why the interest you may ask… Well, in most cases when working on a given project (Greenfield or Brownfield), one member of the team will scout …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Monday, October 23, 2023

BizTalk | Replacing Strong Name Keys

Background Strong Names provide .NET Framework assemblies with unique identities. When the .NET Framework loads a strong-named assembly for a referring assembly, it verifies the strong name signature. If the strong name signature of the assembly cannot be verified, the .NET Framework will not load …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, June 28, 2023

BizTalk | Deploying and Reading Secure SSO Settings

Background One of the fundamental parts to BizTalk for both configuration and integration applications is Enterprise Single Sign On, or as we will continue to reference as SSO from now on. SSO outside the bounds of BizTalk is an available service that is used to store and transmit encrypted user …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Bicep | Deployment Scope Hopping

Background An Azure Tenant is hierarchically structured with the following make up: Tenant One or more Management Groups One or more Subscriptions One or more Resource groups One or more Resources Deployment Scopes {Tenant, Management Group, Subscription, Resource Group} allow us to deploy …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Bicep | Conditional Iterative Deployment

Background I have recently been looking at creating multiple of the same resource using Bicep. There is however a condition where I would wish for the set of resources not to be deployed. The following stages show my work through of this particular problem (using a storage account resource as an …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Bicep Tips and Tricks (9 posts)