Many teams opt for a self hosted agent majorly due to performance and the ability to manage the infrastructure themselves. An agent is computing infrastructure with installed agent software that runs one job at a time. …

Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online In September 2021, Microsoft announced that effective October 1, 2022 they will begin disabling Basic authentication for Outlook, EWS, RPS, POP, IMAP, and EAS protocols in Exchange Online. SMTP Auth will also be disabled if it is not being used. We’re removing the…

Overview Azure Pipelines helps you set up a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline to infrastructure or platform resources in Azure. In this lab, I will configure Azure Pipelines for a static HTML file to deploy on to an Azure Web App. Objectives Upon completion, you will be able to: …

Customer wants to front load an API Management service with a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Application Gateway WAF SKU provides a Web Application Firewall which protects them against top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities. The APIM sits behind Application Gateway and only accessible via the Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a Reverse-Proxy…

Occasionally, your architecture may require that you find a way to disable port 80 in API Management service so that it does NOT respond at all to HTTP requests but only HTTPS requests. Currently you cannot disable that Http.Sys port 80 listener on the APIM VMs, however this guide will…

The developer portal supports programmatic access to content. It allows you to extract the data from or upload it to your API Management service through the content management REST API To simplify automation of this process, a script has been prepared for that purpose which is available here scripts.v2/migrate.js. It…

When you create an Azure API Management service instance, Azure assigns it a sub domain of *.azure-api.net (for example, <apim-service-name>.azure-api.net). However, you can expose your API Management endpoints using your own custom domain name, such as theoots.com. This tutorial shows you how to map an existing custom DNS name to…