Posts from April 2024

Posts from April 2024 (5)

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  Published on

  2024-04-30 12:51 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azureazureappservice

  How to solve "Error occurred during a cryptographic operation." in Azure App Service

  This article explains a couple of ways to fix an issue where after deployment, your Azure App Service suddenly starts throwing an error along the lines of "Error occurred during a cryptographic operation. at System.Web.Security.Cryptography.HomogenizingCryptoServiceWrapper.HomogenizeErrors". The error or the StackTrace doesn't point to anything helpful (understandably, it'll point to a StartUp.

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  Published on

  2024-04-23 8:19 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  windowswindows11

  "Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working"

  Well this one was a doozy. My Start Menu stopped working. And that wasn't nice as I kind of need that. Anyway. Found a couple of ways to try and fix this. One even worked. Wrote them down for your reference (and mine, to be honest). Find them below. (I asked Bing Chat to create me a picture of BSOD on Windows 11, but the article illustration is what it came up with - it's not what I asked for, but it IS topical) Problem The problem was simple, yet annoying. Let me explain.

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  Published on

  2024-04-16 7:24 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  certificates

  How to export a CSR you've created on Windows?

  Another thing that I run into every now and then is creating CSRs for different customer environments. Since the requests often end up being a bit complex with a lot of SANs (Subject Alternative Names), crafting them with OpenSSL (or other console tools) is a bit laborious for my liking, and I usually just end up generating the CSR in DigiCertUtil or some other UI tool. And boom - you get a CSR you can copy-paste and send out to the customer/partner/provider. But what if you need the file later?

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  Published on

  2024-04-09 7:51 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevopspowershell

  How to output all Environment Variables in Azure DevOps with PowerShell?

  This article explains how to list all "Environment Variables" (that's pipeline variables, job / stage variables, predefined variables and even local script variables that are mounted on to the agent as Environment Variables) using PowerShell in Azure DevOps.

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  Published on

  2024-04-02 12:53 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  aadentraidpnppowershellsharepoint

  CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.

  This article explains one possibly reason why some C# code, powered by CSOM, suddenly stops working and can't access a SharePoint list anymore that it could before, throwing annoying and misleading exceptions like "The list is not DocumentLibrary, VersionPolicies is not supported" instead. Oh - and of course, there's a fix as well. Well, possibly a workaround? But at least it'll get you going.

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