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Background Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) provides fine grained control over access to Azure resources. Azure RBAC is founded on top of the Azure Resource Manager which allows us to provide access authorisation at differing scope levels ranging from the Management Group through to …

Problem Space There is a potential unintentional side effect when you add a APIM subscription key as a header to an inbound request. The header is not stripped from the request prior to being sent to the configured backend service. Rather it is retained. If you manage the backing service and are not …

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 …

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 …

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 …