Call the Azure REST API using Microsoft Identity Web

The Microsoft Identity Platform provides developers with the opportunity to make use of v2.0 endpoints to develop their applications. In .NET Core this is the Microsoft.Identity.Web package. This library is specifically written for applications fulfilling either of the two scenarios below: Web applications which sign in users and call web APIs Protected web APIs which call downstream web APIs A simple way of explaining this would be saying that you have a web application which is responsible for connecting to the Microsoft Graph API to authenticate and authorise users and make subsequent calls to the Graph API....

12 April 2021 · 3 min · Martyn

Roundup of GA Announcements from Ignite

More than 36 general availability (GA) announcements were made at Microsoft Ignite in the past week. 21 of them coming from Azure and some closely related services. Azure Azure Sentinel gets more than 30 new connectors overing a raft of new services including Dynamics, Salesforce, and Cisco Umbrella. Improvements in data ingestion, analytics, and playbooks are also announced. Azure Machine Learning gets new role based access controls. Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available and supports dedicated clusters in single-tenant....

5 March 2021 · 2 min · Martyn

Deploying to App Services with GitHub Actions

I initially migrated the blog over from Wordpress over to Jekyll and a Static Web App in Azure. I was very happy with how quick it was to do and how easy it is to setup. You even get a free SSL certificate included with the Static Web App. However you cannot use naked domains (without the www or anything), and while I can easily point everything to include this, I generally find it cleaner on URLs without it....

19 October 2020 · 5 min · Martyn