Implementing the Process Manager Pattern with Logic Apps Standard
Overview The Process Manager is an Enterprise Integration Pattern to maintain the state of sequence and determine the next processing step based on intermedi...
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2024
Tracing Calls to APIM from 2024
Overview Previously, my first step on a journey to troubleshoot Azure API Management would be to enable tracing on the target APIM subscription and setting t...
The Dreaded “Error in determining project root”
Overview Logic app standard workflows can be developed either within the Azure Portal or from an extension to Visual Studio Code. For me, the VS Code extensi...
Hosting Business Rules Engine (BRE) in Logic Apps Standard
Overview Microsoft recently announced the ability to execute BizTalk’s business rules in Logic Apps Standard applications. At the time of writing, this featu...
Publish message to service bus using PowerShell
Overview The Azure Portal include a service bus explorer tool. This can be used to publish a message to a queue or a topic. However, this is a little limited...
Log APIM Request to Blob
Overview When interacting with 3rd party APIs, it’s common to hit an issue in which being able to check the payload of the posted message is critical.
2023
No-Code Reference Data Service with Cosmos and APIM
Overview For many integration solutions, it’s often necessary to maintain a list of reference data. This could be a list of countries, currencies, or even a ...
Migrating from Table Storage to Cosmos DB Table Api
Migrating from Table Storage to Cosmos DB Table Api I recently worked on an Azure Function App that was using Table Storage to persist data. Table storage is...
Azure Function WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE
Azure Function WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE Over the years there have been multiple ways to host Azure Functions. My current preference is to host on a linux app...
Automating Creation of Az Sql Contained Users
Automating Creation of Az Sql Contained Users I have an Azure Function app called sms-router that uses an Azure Sql Database. This means it needs permission ...
Hosting Azure DevOps Agents on a VMSS
Hosting Azure DevOps Agents on a VMSS The only time I’d previously had to veer from using Microsoft’s hosted build agent was for building “unusual” things li...
Missing Host Keys in Azure Function App
Missing Host Keys in Azure Function App I ran into a problem with deployment of a function app a couple of weeks ago. I thought I’d share the solution here i...
Tuning Azure Functions App Settings
Tuning Azure Function App Settings I would admit to being guilty of accepting some default function app settings without really considering what they’re for....
APIM IP Address
Figuring Out the IP Address of Your Azure Function and API Management Policy Background I recently created an Azure Function app that’s triggered by an Http ...
Dotnet-Isolated Azure Function Custom Health Check
Adding Custom Health Check to Dotnet-Isolated Azure Functions Azure function apps give the options to enable health checks. An overview and description of be...
Publishing Multiple Messages to Service Bus with Managed Identity
Publishing Multiple Messages to Service Bus with Managed Identity I ran into a problem with the service bus binding for Azure functions this week.
Updating Resources Outside Target Resource Group
Updating Resources Outside Target Resource Group The way this is achieved is a little strange and although I’ve implemented several times, I always forget!
APIM Deployment
Automating Deployment of Azure API Management Requiring App Registrations
Logic Apps in ASEv3
Using the Built-In File Connector for On-Prem Files Previously, we’d been accessing on-prem files from logic apps via the on-prem data gateway, as illustrate...
2022
AzureWebJobsAzureWebJobStorage Does Not Exist
‘AzureWebJobsAzureWebJobsStorage’ does not exist
Auto Publishing Azure Functions into Apim
Automatically Publishing Azure Functions into APIM
2021
Azure Service Endpoint - Status Disabled
Azure Service Endpoint - Status Disabled I had a vnet that looked like this:
EF Migrations with DevOps
EF Migrations with DevOps Intro Entity Framework migrations have been around for a long time, so I won’t go into detail on what they’re for, other than to sa...
Azure Service Endpoints
Azure Service Endpoints
Logs Missing from local Az Functions
Logs Missing from Local Az Functions I created a new Durable Functions project recently and noticed my logs weren’t appearing in the console window when runn...
2020
RabbitMQ Inequivalent Arg Error
Rabbit MQ Inequivalent Arg Error I have an Azure function that’s making use of the new(ish) RabbitMQ binding to collect messages. This binding (https://githu...
2019
Biztalk 2016 sFTP
BizTalk 2016 sFTP I recently worked on a project that required BizTalk to collect files from a 3rd party’s server using the SFTP adapter. I’ve had to do this...
Fiddler and BizTalk with a Corp Proxy
Fiddler and BizTalk with a Corp Proxy I’ve been having fun integrating BizTalk with an external rest style api this week. When things don’t work as expected,...
2018
Calling BizTalk from Azure
Calling BizTalk from Azure Phone Home I’ve been working on a project that has a .Net Core MVC front end deployed as an Azure Web App. This needs to request d...
Calling a Stored Proc from BizTalk without an Orchestration
Calling a Stored Proc from BizTalk without Orchestration
Biztalk 2016 High Availability Config
BizTalk 2016 High Availability Config I was recently faced with creating a new on-prem production environment for BizTalk 2016. New to me for this install wa...
2017
BTDF IIS
BizTalk Deployment Framework and IIS Websites Tom Abraham recently published v5.7 of the BTDF to Codeplex and Github. The main win of this release is full su...
Orchestration Woes
Orchestration Woes I hit a problem with BTS2013r2 orchestration that I don’t remember coming across previously.
PowerShell for MP3
PowerShell for MP3
Sending to SharePoint List from BizTalk
Sending to SharePoint List from BizTalk I have a BizTalk 2013r2 solution from which I needed to send to a SharePoint 2010 list. It seems there are two option...
Publishing Website for BizTalk
Publishing Website for BizTalk
Biztalk Functoid not Found
Functoid not Found There Must be a Better Way I’m hoping I’ve overlooked something here but I’ve hit a problem, for which I can’t find a happy work-around.
Biztalk Orchestraion Delivery Notification
BizTalk Orchestration Delivery Notifcation I ran into an interesting problem last week. Sends to a third-party via the FTP adapter were failing. Nothing part...
2016
ESB Exception 256
ESB Exception Framework and Description 256 Length Problem Users of the ESB Exception Toolkit may be familiar with the exception: The property “Descriptio...
Biztalk and Tradeshift
BizTalk and Tradeshift Tradeshift is as cloud based service to enable companies to exchange business documents such as purchase orders and invoices more easi...
Biztalk Deployment Framework - Local Bindings
Biztalk Deployment Framework - Local Bindings For new BizTalk solutions I use the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF). In the early stages of development, I ...
BizTalk Naming Conventions
BizTalk Naming Conventions Naming of BizTalk stuff is no different than for any programming language. It’s helpful if multiple developers on the same project...
2015
BizTalk Smoke Testing
BizTalk Smoke Testing After building a new BizTalk environment it can be helpful to run a few simple tests to check all is good.
BizTalk CI/CD
BizTalk CI/CD Background In this post I’d like to describe a BizTalk build process I recently developed for a client and their BizTalk 2013(r1) applications....
BTDF Gotcha!
BTDF Gotcha! Everyone knows that the BizTalk Deployment Framework is the best thing since sliced bread but BizTalk deployment is a complex thing and I still ...
Zero to Cloud
Zero to Cloud I have dabbled with Azure over the past few years now but this has been mainly as a host to a simple websites with a sql db layer. I’ve been me...
BizTalk DateTime vs Oracle
BizTalk DateTime vs Oracle I have an orchestration that received a data file and inserted contents into an Oracle database as part of its processing.
Happy TPE
Why BAM? Why TPE? I’m a big believer in BizTalk’s Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functionality, in fact I can’t think of any “real” BizTalk application t...
Happy BizTalk!
Simple PowerShell BizTalk Status Report Have you ever felt the need to check all BizTalk ports and hosts instances are running before you leave work each day...