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In this article, I'll share the least fun error I've recently had to deal with while building / deploying bots - I mean, agents - with Bot Framework, I mean, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK on macOS. And of course how to get around the issues.

A working service can stop answering overnight when the IP beneath your AKS ingress changes — and when DNS records or firewall rules depend on that address, the fallout can be immediate and painful!

Ever thought Azure CLI was your reliable sidekick on Windows? Ha! You'd think so, until "Decryption failed: Key not valid for use in specified state" hits you out of nowhere.

This article explains a fix to a - frankly possibly a little bit dumb - problem, where all kubectl commands suddenly throw an error along the lines of "couldn't get current server API group list: Get \"http://localhost:8080/api?

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.

In this article, I'll share a simple script for a simple use case: removing blobs from a virtual directory structure in a container in an Azure blob storage account.

Anyone still remember Log4Shell? The incredibly easy-to-exploit, zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, that made arbitrary code execution extremely simple and straightforward.

This article explains how to get around a weird quirk in Azure Static Web Apps local development story. Well - one of the quirks anyway. A real showstopper issue I ran into.

Every now and then there comes a time when you need to fiddle with DNS. It's not that you want to do it, but sometimes you just can't avoid it.

This article explains how to "reactivate" all of your accounts stored in your az account by refreshing your sessions.

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.

This article describes a solution to an age-old question of mine: how can I add an Azure Active Directory object - like a security group - to multiple resource groups at once? I've had to do this multiple times, and manual work takes quite a while.

This article explains a quick and dirty fix when you get an error somewhat like " ApiNotFound " when you're deploying an Azure Logic App from a template.

This article explains one possible fix to "LinkedAuthorizationFailed" when you're deploying a Logic App from an Azure Automation template.

Sometimes, you need to change the hosting model (or tier) for your resources on Azure.

Ah, one more on the related topics of different configurations for your Azure Function apps. In this article, I will describe how you can configure the Entity Framework Core database context to be injected into your Azure Functions App.

This article explains one easy way for you to improve the performance and uptime of your Azure App Service.

This article describes a solution to an error "Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program." I was debugging an Azure Function locally and ran into it - it stopped my Azure Function from starting at all.

This article describes a curious fix I found to an issue where Application Insights (seemingly) crashes your Azure App Service, leaving behind interesting, yet non-descriptive errors in the Application Event Logs.

Yikes - ever ran into this error after deploying your ASP.NET Core web application to an Azure App Service? Yeah, me too. And when it's a production deployment, and the error didn't happen in test/QA environment, that's even more fun.

This article will briefly explain the different NuGet package versioning schemes - both automatic and manual - available.

So, another interesting issue I ran into when developing Azure Functions locally. What an endless bag of funsies!

I don't know about you, but it's happened to me a few times: fire up your Azure functions project, hit F5 to start debugging project builds without errors, Azure Functions host starts... And shuts down right away.

This blog post describes a very specific fix to a very specific issue.

We were working on getting our Robot Framework tests running during our builds on Azure DevOps.