Questions tagged [azure]

Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing platform. Use this tag for programming questions concerning Azure. General server help can be obtained at Super User or Server Fault.

If you need help setting up Azure resources, ask those questions on Server Fault or Super User.

Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build web applications or services that run and store data in Microsoft data centres. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high-level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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Authentication difference between using AAD app key and Service Principal Password

To run applications in Azure, I need to create an Application in Azure AD and a corresponding Service Principal. Then my application authenticates against this App/Principal pair. To authenticate, I can create an application key in the App…
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Azure Service Bus Topics Multiple subscribers

I am new to Azure Service Bus and would like to know if I can multiple subscribers to a queue or topic? In rabbit MQ I can have multiple subscribers to 1 publisher. What I am trying to do is, I am using CQRS and when certain commands come into the…
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Dynamically set schedule in Azure Function

I have following function.json for my Azure function whose schedule is set to run at 9.30 daily. What I want is to dynamically set the schedule attribute of this json. This scenario arises when a client who is using my application enters date, on…
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Registration in Notification Hub with PHP Backend

For user requeriments the backend must be PHP and the app client is in Ionic 2. Based…
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Get all the Partition Keys in Azure Cosmos DB collection

I have recently started using Azure Cosmos DB in our project. For the reporting purpose, we need to get all the Partition Keys in the collection. I could not find any suitable API to achieve it.
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How do I keep resource API versions up to date on existing ARM template?

I have an existing Azure template that provisions the following resources Microsoft.ClassicStorage/StorageAccounts (api version 2014-06-01) microsoft.insights/components (api version 2014-08-01) and some others ... Using the code in the article…
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Add Azure Active Directory User to Azure SQL Database

I have an Azure SQL Server and can SSMS into it. I also have an Azure Active Directory with a user named mytestuser@mytest.onmicrosoft.com. I want to add this user to have permissions to a database in my Azure SQL Server. The first step is trying to…
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How to configure Web role on Azure Compute Emulator to work like local IIS (static URL)

So, the question is how to configure Web role on Azure Compute Emulator to work like on local IIS? By this I mean, that, the web role have the fixed url (like you can in project properties set the "Use Local IIS Web server" and set the fixed…
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azure blob returns 403 forbidden with correct access key

My test site has after a deploy started to get 403 forbidden back when trying to access files from the azure blob storage. This is only a problem on our test environment, the new release works just fine in production. Both production and test is…
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azure cosmosdb very expensive

Can someone explain how I can configure Azure cosmosDB to not be so expensive? 30€ for 3 days?? It's a small test environment with very few users. In the backend, I only see that it will cost some cents ... Here is my Cost overview: I have around…
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How to persist state in Azure Function (the cheap way)?

How can I persist a small amount of data between Azure Function executions? Like in a global variable? The function runs on a Timer Trigger. I need to store the result of one Azure Function execution and use this as input of the next execution of…
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Using GraphServiceClient to get refresh tokens when authenticating using UserPasswordCredential in AuthenticationContext

Sincere apologies if I miss something from this post, as I'm at my wits end after reading around for hours. I'm attempting to write a back-end service (Windows) which will connect to the MS Graph API via Azure AD. I'm using C# to knock up a…
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Azure Functions notification on failure

I have timer-triggered Azure functions running in production, but now I want to be notified if the function fails. In my case, access to various connected services can cause crashes, and there are many to troubleshoot. The crash is the type of…
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How to create BAK file from azure sql db

I want to move my azure sql db to another host. However my new host allows to import sql db backup-files (.BAK) only; I found out how to generate .BACPAK files with SQL Server Management Studio but I could not find a way to create a BAK-file from…
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Create hive external table from partitioned parquet files in Azure HDInsights

I have data saved as parquet files in Azure blob storage. Data is partitioned by year, month, day and hour like: cont/data/year=2017/month=02/day=01/ I want to create external table in Hive using following create statement, which I wrote using this…
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