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How to Pass: Azure AZ-900 Exam

Overview

The Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 exam is the first stepping stone on the Microsoft Azure cloud certification pathway.

Having recently passed the AZ-900 exam I wanted to share my thoughts and insights in this AZ-900 Exam Study Guide to help others pass the exam.

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How To: Set Azure App Service Time Zone

Background

We recently migrated a legacy .NET web service running on-premise to an Azure App Service. During testing we identified an issue with DateTime translations. Our application had a reference to DateTime.Now.

Previously, our app was running on-premise and therefore using Western Australia Standard Time (+8). However, following the migration to Azure, it was using UTC time by default, so we therefore needed to change the default time zone configuration.

In this post I’ll explain how you can update the time zone of your Azure App Service.

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Azure VM “The Server Encountered An Internal Error”

And so it begins …

The day had only just begun … I got into the office … I grabbed a coffee … sat down at my desk.

I tried connecting to one of my Azure dev VM’s but for some reason I couldn’t RDP to it. I waited a bit of time and then tried again, but still no luck.

My Azure AutomationAccount was configured to automatically start and shutdown my VM’s each working day.

I checked the logs for my AutomationAccount and found the message

“The Server encountered an internal error. Please retry the request.”.

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How to Create a Q&A Chat bot using Azure Q&A Maker

Previously, when it came to creating your own Microsoft bots, it required a certain degree of knowledge and custom development to make things actually happen.

This has all changed with the Microsoft’s Cognitive Services portfolio. You can now have a bot up and running in 10 minutes – literally!

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Azure WebJob status aborted? How to solve it

Overview

Have you published a long running web job in Azure and noticed that it has terminated with an  ‘Aborted’ status. Chances are that the job has timed out.

In this post I’ll explain what’s happening here and how you can fix this.

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Set Azure Static IP – Classic VM

Azure offers the ability to set static IP addresses for hosted virtual machines. I recently had to configure this for some of our existing “classic” Azure virtual machines. The process is as follows. Continue reading

Azure App Service – How to Enable SSL

Overview

Traditionally when setting up SSL for an IIS website, you could generate a CSR using IIS to provide to your relevant certificate authority.

If setting up a website using the Azure App Service, the approach is slightly different. There’s a myriad of ways of can do this, however this is the easiest approach I’ve found.

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Azure – Scheduled VM Stop/Start

Overview

One of the most common Azure administration tasks is scheduling an auto stop & start of your Azure VM’s to save you a few $$$.

Here’s a quick post showing how you can do this.

UPDATE: Azure now provides the ability to auto start and shutdown ARM based VM’s. If you are however still using a Classic VM, you can follow the below guide.

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