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To test a certain use case in the context of the integration of an application with AAD B2C I wanted to change the User Principal Name (UPN) of a user. The UPN corresponds to the username and email address of a user. First, I tried changing the UPN directly through the Azure Portal by switching... Continue Reading →
As already stated in the title, this blog post shows a simple way to move Terraform state between Azure Blob Storage containers. Terraform version: Terraform v1.3.7Azure Storage Account kind: StorageV2 (general purpose v2) To perform the move, proceed as follows: Execute terraform init with the actual terraform backend configuration Execute terraform apply with the actual... Continue Reading →
Last week I upgraded the dependencies of a ReactJS project by using yarn upgrade-interactive (yarn version: 3.2.1).After the upgrade I faced the following error in multiple files: Cannot find module ... Since the error message did not directly indicate the cause of the error, I had to do some research, which led me to the... Continue Reading →
Towards the end of last year, I supported a teammate with troubleshooting. It was about searching pages in SharePoint via Microsoft Graph API using GraphServiceClient. The following code returned an empty list. using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.Graph; using SharepointList = Microsoft.Graph.List; namespace Backend.Infrastructure.Microsoft.Graph.Sharepoint { internal class SiteLogic { private readonly GraphServiceClient graphClient;... Continue Reading →
Lately I faced the following challenge. I wanted to analyze the requests sent by a .NET Web API application to the underlying Cosmos DB to get insights about the RU consumption (RU = request units, for more details see here) of the different Cosmos DB operations. Whenever you call Cosmos DB via HTTP API -... Continue Reading →
Today I was confronted with an unexpected behavior of Azure DevOps Services. An external user got invited to a private Azure DevOps project by following the steps below. Open a private Azure DevOps project Click the Invite button in the upper right corner Enter email address of external user Select the team the user should... Continue Reading →
Usually an Azure DevOps Services organization contains multiple projects. Often for some of these projects YAML pipelines are set up, which are triggered on every pull request and commit to the develop and main branches. Let's assume that in one or more of these Azure DevOps projects a whole bunch of YAML pipelines is set... Continue Reading →
This blog post is a personal assessment of GitHub Copilot based on a 60-days free trial usage and information I gathered from different sources. Let's start with a short introduction. What IT IS GitHub Copilot got announced as Your AI pair programmer. It's an artificial intelligence (AI) based service that supports developers in writing code... Continue Reading →
In case you have an Azure Active Directory B2C (AAD B2C) with a user flow of type Sign up and sign in (Preview v2 legacy), self-service password reset experience can not be enabled on the user flow. Regardless of this, the Forgot your password? option is shown to the users by the login screen: But... Continue Reading →
After my technology switch from Java to C#/.NET about seven years ago, I still tried to stay in touch with Java and spring - at least a little bit. Back in 2015 I therefore started implementing a small spring boot based web application in Java that consumes the REST API of the swiss floorball association... Continue Reading →
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