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  2022-04-19 8:33 p.m.

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  koskila

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  itjobssharepoint

  Joining the Omnia team!

  Exciting news right after the Easter break (and a bit of a change from the usual flow of technical stuff) - I've joined the Omnia team at Precio Fishbone. Over the last 12 months, I have been working mostly on Azure IoT projects and was already debating renaming the blog. The title #SharePointProblems matches the content poorly when most of my new posts are about Docker, Azure DevOps, or Entity Framework .

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  2022-04-12 3:30 a.m.

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  koskila

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  dockerwsl

  Upgrade from WSL 1 to WSL 2 in Windows 10 to fix Docker

  Okay - another one of the topics that I'm explaining probably more to myself than whoever's reading this later. But that's why I write this blog, so please bear with me. 🙂 Anyway, onto the actual issue at hand! I was configuring Docker on WSL on my Windows laptop for development purposes.

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  2022-04-05 2:56 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azuredevopsyaml

  Azure DevOps incoming webhook just won't fire? Easy (stupid) fix!

  This article documents a simple but annoying fix to an issue with Azure DevOps. In this particular case, an incoming webhook (configured as a service connection) would fail to fire, no matter what. It turns out that it's a bug in Azure DevOps - who would have thought :) Luckily, there's a fairly simple workaround available! Problem A colleague was configuring a new pipeline in Azure DevOps.

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  2022-03-29 3:04 p.m.

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  koskila

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  graph-apigraphexplorer

  How to fix Graph API returning null properties for Users?

  This article explains a quick fix to a small but annoying issue: Microsoft Graph API SDK persistently returning null values for most properties of your Microsoft.Graph.User objects. The issue might happen when using either the Graph API SDK or just calling the REST API directly. Both options are entirely acceptable, and in both cases, you're not getting the properties you wanted. Well, I wasn't, anyway.

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  2022-03-22 4:27 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azureiotazureiotedge

  How to get your Azure IoT Edge runtime to use port 443 instead of using 5671 and 8883?

  Are you struggling with your Azure IoT Edge modules not receiving your Direct Method calls? Is EdgeHub reporting transient network issues? Are you seeing "Could not connect to your IoT hub: could not complete TLS handshake" errors? Are your modules experiencing constant 104 errors (connection reset by peer)? Fear not! This article explains how to fix them. Kind of. Problem We were experiencing some major issues with our customer's Edge devices.

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  2022-03-15 5:03 a.m.

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  koskila

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  dotnetmsbuild

  How to copy dependent assemblies to the bin folder on build?

  This is something that comes up pretty often - when you're building an application, or maybe a library you're sharing as a NuGet package to your friends: You'll need to share a dependency or two with your particular package, and you don't want your end users having to reference those libraries, too. Sounds easy, right?

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  2022-03-15 4:00 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azureiotedgeazureiothub

  "Unable to retrieve IoT Edge informationIoT Edge configuration uses an unsupported schema and cannot be displayed." after deploying from VS Code. What do?

  This article explains a couple of steps you might need to take when executing a Single-Device deployment from Visual Studio Code to an Azure IoT Edge device. Through a bit of trial and error, I learned quite a few things that might go wrong when VSCode is building your deployment manifest (the one that'll be hosted under "config" folder and used for the deployment - that is). Background So a while ago, I was updating the base deployment of an Azure IoT Edge device.

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  2022-03-01 4:31 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azurefunctionscors

  Azure Functions suddenly throwing CORS errors when ran locally? Easy fix(es)!

  In this article, I'm listing the quick fixes to your Azure Functions suddenly throwing seemingly random and very unexpected CORS errors. I have run into this so many times that I had to list these (admittedly simple) fixes in order of importance purely for myself - but perhaps some of these will help you as well! 😁 CORS issues can be frustrating but the issue is usually, simple to fix - as long as you know what you are doing. But first, let's take a step back - what was the issue, again?

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  2022-02-27 3:08 p.m.

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  koskila

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  iiswindows

  How to install IIS (Internet Information Services) on Windows 10?

  It's the roaring twenties again, cloud is the hot stuff, and nobody needs a server anymore. Right? Nope! I've been involved in more on-prem or hybrid projects in the last 12 months than in the last 3-4 years combined. There are plenty of industries and valid uses for still setting up on-prem servers. And quite often, that includes setting up IIS (Internet Information Services) on said machines. And of course, there's the classic use case - local development.

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  2022-02-22 11:27 a.m.

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  koskila

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  dockerhomeassistant

  How to move the Home Assistant SQLite database in Docker on Windows?

  This article explains how you can move your Home Assistant's SQLite database files to another location by mapping them to another volume in Docker. Using Docker on Windows. Which might not be a smart move, but it's one I went with anyway. The article will explain how to do this with docker-compose, but the steps pretty much apply to vanilla docker as well. With that said - let's move on!

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  2022-02-15 3:29 a.m.

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  koskila

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  authorizationblazor

  Groups-based authorization in Blazor WebAssembly

  This article will take a look at a neat authorization option for Blazor WebAssembly - utilizing group memberships when defining policies. This isn't a tutorial or an overview of Blazor - rather, we start from you already having your Blazor WebAssembly project set up, and we'll be taking a look into modifying it to use group membership claims with policy-based authorization. This is a bit trickier than using roles, which Blazor WebAssembly already supports quite well. But before that - Blazor?

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  2022-02-08 6:32 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azuredevopsazureiotedgejmespath

  Azure IoT Edge gotchas - and how to overcome them!

  This article describes the gotchas and weird one-offs that I've encountered with Azure IoT Edge so far. Consider them not-too-thoroughly tested quick fixes that aren't significant enough to warrant an actual blog post themselves :) Okay - let's get to them gotchas, then! Random learnings from Azure IoT Edge projects

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  2022-02-01 4:25 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azureiotedgevscode

  How to fix "Cannot start service edgeHubDev: Ports are not available: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:8883"

  Here is another fun one for the books! In this article, I will explain how to fix a problem with the Azure IoT Edge dev simulator, when it fails to start due to an underlying problem with Docker not having access to your defined ports. This will probably happen to one of the ports used by the Edge Hub system module by default - 5671, 8883, or 443.

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  2022-01-27 4:26 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azureiotedgedockervscode

  How to fix "exec user process caused: no such file or directory" in Docker on Windows?

  Another one in the series of "random things that break when you try to run Docker on Windows"! I was just minding my own business, trying to run an Azure IoT Edge custom module - a Docker container, really - locally, when suddenly everything broke and one of my Docker containers wouldn't run anymore, which broke the rest of my stuff pretty badly. Instead, it failed with a cryptic and surprising error "exec user process caused: no such file or directory" .

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  2022-01-25 5:29 a.m.

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  koskila

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  ef-coreentityframeworkcore

  How to run EF Core commands when your entities are in a different project from your dbcontext?

  This article explains how to achieve that nice configuration where you can reuse your .NET EF Core (Entity Framework Core) entities in different projects - even being separate from the project holding your DbContexts! You might want to do this if you have a common data model between a number of very different projects - but you will still need to have a way to add new migrations, apply the current ones to a database or possibly remove deprecated migrations.

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  2022-01-18 7:04 a.m.

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  koskila

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  dockerpostgresqltimescaledb

  How to run SQL commands in a Postgre SQL Docker container?

  This article will explain how to run your arbitrary SQL commands against a Postgre SQL database running in a Docker container in Windows. That should be super simple, but since I never remember anything like this by heart, I had to google it - and turns out, either I didn't know how to google this properly or people haven't bothered to document this. So, let's fix that. But first, why did I need to do this, again?

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  2022-01-11 3:12 a.m.

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  koskila

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  corshtaccesswordpress

  How to modify CORS settings using a .htaccess file

  Recently, I needed to host a web-based thingamajiggy in WordPress and needed to include a couple of custom libraries. For the sake of quick iteration, I decided to use a public FTP folder that I already had on the same server in order to host this. So I had configured a subdomain to host the files, and wanted to reference them from my WordPress site. Not quite a CDN, but something a little bit like that. Well, of course, I ran into an issue again.

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  2022-01-04 3:43 a.m.

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  koskila

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  dockerwsl

  How to solve Vmmem consuming ungodly amounts of RAM when running WSL?

  This was another (luckily pretty shallow) rabbit hole down some corporate IT and weird default configurations by our favorite tech-daddy Microsoft. In this article, I will describe one possible reason for a process called Vmmem.exe consuming enough RAM to crash pretty much everything else running on your machine. But let's take a step back first - what happened?

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  2021-12-31 11:50 a.m.

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  koskila

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  yearreview

  2021 - Year Review!

  Well, it's been a year. It certainly does not feel like it has been a whole 12 months since I last wrote one of these, you know? I failed every single one of the goals I set for 2021, but I'm not going to lie, family takes (and deserves) so much time that it is no wonder that our hobbies suffer a bit. But still - writing these year reviews has become a tradition, so without further ado - let's get to it! 😁 Website stats

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  2021-12-20 10:30 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azurefunctionsazureiothub

  How to fix "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage: Server encountered an internal error. Please try again after some time." when using IoTHub trigger for Azure Functions?

  One more article before Christmas! 😁 This time, I'll be fixing a function that's triggering based on new messages received through my IoT Hub in my Azure Functions project. Technically speaking, this is super simple to implement - your function needs to define an IoTHubTrigger , with an Event Hub name and usually a Connection String (I don't know why I'm Sentence Casing that, too, but I'll stick to it!

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  2021-12-15 6:05 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azuredevopsnpm

  How to authenticate against npm registries in Azure DevOps?

  Another one in the series of "this should've been easy, but alas, you're the edge case". "You" being "me", and the "edge case" being our internal npm feed (registry), for whatever reason. Ah, well - life would be extremely boring if everything always went according to documentation, right? So, instead of the built-in ways to access npm feeds, this solution includes some PowerShell. Ah - that's when you know it's going to be good, right?

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  2021-12-10 3:57 a.m.

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  koskila

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  signalrwebsockets

  How to test SignalR-connection in the browser?

  So a while back I posted about testing your "vanilla" WebSockets connection directly in the browser - and while that's nice and easy, sometimes you need to class up a bit. In my case that meant upgrading to SignalR (for some corporate and enterprisey reasons as usual). It makes sense to leave behind the easy, simple, lightweight and somewhat transparent WebSockets to "upgrade" to the enterprise-ready (and arguably quite a lot less transparent) SignalR?

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  2021-12-07 4:20 a.m.

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  koskila

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  aspnetcoresignalrwebsockets

  How to access claims of a SignalR user in ASP.NET Core?

  I tend to post a lot of articles about different gotchas and configuration tweaks, but this one goes back to the roots a bit - just me and a couple of other devs hacking some code together and being blocked by a bit of an obstacle, that's then fixed by - you guessed it - writing niftier code. Or actually, I suppose it was more about removing some and adding some of the right stuff... But isn't that what most programming is about? Anyway - let's take a look at configuring SignalR for an ASP.

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  2021-12-01 4:52 a.m.

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  koskila

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  azurefunctions

  Azure Function build fails with "Mono.Cecil.AssemblyResolutionException: Failed to resolve assembly: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core"

  Another fun one with Azure Functions! At least it's a simple one: this time, I ran into a weird issue while doing some code reusing - well, copy-pasting - between a couple of different projects. I was lovingly hand-crafting some Azure Functions, while suddenly the Azure Functions host would throw this in ugly red letters: Mono.Cecil.AssemblyResolutionException: Failed to resolve assembly: 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=adb9793829ddae60' at Mono.

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  Published on

  2021-11-23 7:41 p.m.

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  koskila

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  authenticationazureazurekeyvault

  How to update from deprecated Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication to new and shiny Azure.Security.KeyVaults.Secrets?

  So, a while ago I posted about a fairly simple way to write your code for fetching secrets (and other confidential stuff) from Azure Key Vault in such a way, that it would work the same way both in Azure and on your local dev box. I find this pretty important, as it reduces the need for weird workarounds and fallbacks in your code, and at the same time enables you to harness the Azure Key Vault for that sweet spot of "good enough security without breaking your back or the bank".

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