This article is a guide to set up Dashboards to monitor Azure App services, Function apps, Databases etc. effectively. Let me start by being dramatic “Application monitoring is too underrated!” Sometime ago, one of my responsibilities were to support, monitor and maintain an ITSM Application. This threw up some serious…

Scenario — You want to connect from Azure to an On-prem resource, like an SQL DB. Least disruptive/ easiest Solution — Using Azure Hybrid Connection Azure Hybrid Connections is a feature in Azure Relay based on HTTPS and Web Sockets protocol. It allows you to send requests and receive responses over web sockets or HTTP(S). This feature is compatible with the…

Problem: The CRM app that we have, is not connecting to Click dimensions (third party plugin used to configure Surveys within CRM). First thing done: try restarting corresponding services (I know the message asks to check the Account details. Still, restarting app is easiest to do before trying anything else.)…

A while ago, FaceApp was viral. I bet most of us reading this have had their social media feeds flooded with memes and stuff with content created outta FaceApp. It’s real fun to find out how you might age, see your image used to create an image of the opposite…

I just set up Server Side Synchronization in a Microsoft Dynamics On-prem CRM app. For anybody starting out, I hope this would be helpful. Scenario There is a Customer support Mailbox that receives emails and these are to be converted into Email message Activities in CRM. There would be a Team…

We are talking about an on-prem CRM application. Precisely, this is the version it’s on - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Update 2.3, 8.2.3.0008. I had to setup Server side synchronization on this UAT env. First thing, none of the following works without enabling Data Encryption on the CRM app. Server side…

PROBLEM When you try to access an Azure SQL database from your Management Studio, you see the following error. WHY? To protect the Databases hosted within Azure, there are firewalls that prevents ALL access from outside Azure. These firewalls need you to specify list of CLIENTS that have permissions to…

Have you heard about Neuralink? Elon Musk’s pet company he has invested a $100 million in? Apparently, they have already developed an implant that can record neuron activity in a person and its thinner than a human hair! …

There are instances where we would need to backup blobs. As Azure does not offer automated backups of Blob storage’s, we need to think this out. …