How to create your first Teams bot and deploy it to Azure

How to create your first Teams bot and deploy it to Azure

Creating a Teams bot is not a complex process, but figuring out all the different things that are required for the first time can seem like a challenging feat to accomplish.

Stopping and starting Azure Application Gateway on-demand and on a schedule

Stopping and starting Azure Application Gateway on-demand and on a schedule

There’s no button in Azure Portal that allows us to stop and start the application gateway on-demand. Luckily, we can do it with PowerShell!

Forcing an Azure Function to process Queue Storage messages one at a time

Forcing an Azure Function to process Queue Storage messages one at a time

By default, Azure Functions process queue messages in parallel. Usually, parallelism is great but there are some occasions that might require you to process the messages one by one.

Authenticate to Entra ID Protected APIs with Managed Identity—No Key Vault Required

Authenticate to Entra ID Protected APIs with Managed Identity—No Key Vault Required

Did you know there is a way for us to securely authenticate to Entra ID protected APIs while simultaneously avoiding storing any credentials?

How to authenticate to Entra ID protected APIs with a certificate—step-by-step

How to authenticate to Entra ID protected APIs with a certificate—step-by-step

This blog post is meant to be the one place to get all of the information you need for setting up certificate authentication. This scenario is important when you, for example, want to use the SharePoint Online REST API with application permissions.

How to Securely Call a Logic App from an Azure Function + Benefits

How to Securely Call a Logic App from an Azure Function + Benefits

Probably the most predominant reason to choose to implement something with Azure Logic Apps or Microsoft Flow is how fast and easy it is to automate processes with them, and how that can lead to reduced implementation costs. However, there is one thing that can really rack up the costs, and that is polling.