Category Archives: Azure

Will be a little dusty with all the deprecations coming up!

ADAL has sunset so I cannot trust it in Azure SBM. MSAL looks great but they have it hard coded to not issue a token credential on mobile!?!?!? Seems in many ways mobile can be hardened better than a PC and can be truly remote wiped based on many conditions. Microsoft seems really out of touch with mobile and the corporate world.

But I think I might have found a REST alternative for Storage management client authentication. I’ll be trying it out this afternoon to see what happens!

John

Azure complications with their ninja updates to services behind the scene

Picture uploads were working in November just fine as I had tested them to make sure the changes to the Function script were ok. But when I checked in mid-January it wasn’t working at all. I troubleshot for days to see if it was a configuration error or not but did not find anything out of the ordinary.

After opening a ticket they checked and said the Function server kept rebooting for some reason. Hmm, I said about that as I did not change anything in January when it stopped working. I asked them to check if there was an update to the container OS running the function and get back to me on it.

Well after about 2 weeks they said that my Python module ProtoBuf by google was out of date. So I updated all the required modules in requirements.txt and pushed it to GitHub and after it deployed the Function again and compiled it was running like a champ.

So they had updated the Python version on the image and updated their Function requirements as far as modules as well.

So next time I’m just going to open a ticket and let them tell me what had changed LOL.

John