Azure Managed Disk–Overview

Microsoft released Azure Managed disk 2 weeks ago.  Let’s look at it!

What did we have until then?  The virtual hard disk (.vhd file) was stored as a page blob in an Azure Storage account.

That worked quite fine and Azure Disks are a little more than that.  A...

Extended Outage @ Instapaper - Resiliency example

I use Instapaper extensively to store the continuous flow of internet articles I want to read.  I created a bunch of tools integrating with it (e.g. monitoring atom feeds and sending new articles to Instapaper)

Last week my tools didn’t work for a while so I finally logged...

Automating Azure AD

In the previous article, we explored how to interact (read / write) to an Azure AD tenant using Microsoft Graph API.

In the article before that, we looked at how to authenticate a user without using Azure AD web flow.

Those were motivated by a...

Using Microsoft Graph API to interact with Azure AD

In my last article, I showed how to authenticate on Azure AD using a user name / password without using the native web flow.

The underlying scenario was to migrate an application using an LDAP server by leveraging an Azure AD tenant.

The logical continuation of that scenario is...

Authenticating to Azure AD non-interactively

I want to use Azure AD as a user directory but I do not want to use its native web authentication mechanism which requires users to go via an Active Directory page to login (which can be branded and customized to look like my own).

I just...