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Variable Snapshotting in Azure DevOps When Using Azure Key Vault Paid Members Public
In the previous post, we saw how to Enable History for Azure DevOps Variable Groups Using Azure Key Vault. However, there is one issue with using this approach. Whenever a deployment is triggered, it fetches the latest Secret value from the Key Vault. This behaviour might be desirable or not

Enable History for Azure DevOps Variable Groups Using Azure Key Vault Paid Members Public
Using Key Vault via Variable Group does not snapshot configuration values from the vault. When a deployment is triggered the latest value from the Key Vault is used. A couple of weeks back, I accidentally deleted an Azure DevOps Variable Group at work, and it sucked out half of my

Azure AD: Restrict Application Access To Users Belonging To A Group Paid Members Public
For one of the web application I was working on, access was to be restricted based on user belonging to a particular Azure AD Group. The application as such did not have any Role Based Functionality. It feels an overhead to set up the Role Based Access when all we

How to Authenticate and Authorize Azure Function with Azure Web App Using Managed Service Identity (MSI) Paid Members Public
Azure Functions are getting popular, and I start seeing them more at clients. One typical scenario I come across is to authenticate an Azure Function with an Azure Web API. Every time something like this comes up, it means more Azure AD applications, which in turn means more secrets/certificates

Custom Authorization Policy Providers in .Net Core For Checking Multiple Azure AD Security Groups Paid Members Public
Extending Azure AD Groups Role based access to support combinations of multiple groups to grant access.

Building Windows Service Installer on Azure Devops Paid Members Public
Continuosly building a windows installer on Azure DevOps using VdProj or WIX

.Net Core Web App and Azure AD Security Groups Role Based Access Paid Members Public
Use Azure AD groups to enable/disable functionality for your users based on their Roles.

Azure AD Custom Attributes and Optional Claims from an ASP.Net Application Paid Members Public
Adding and retrieving custom attributes from an Azure AD