Unable to install com.microsoft.azure:azure-eventhubs-spark_2.12:2.3.21 on Azure Databricks I was trying to install the `com.microsoft.azure:azure-eventhubs-spark_2.12:2.3.21` library from Maven on an Azure Databricks Cluster which was running `9.1 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.
Azure Unable to start/init Azure Storage Emulator after fresh installation Azure Storage Emulator is an important piece of my developer toolkit and I recently got a new laptop from work and while I was getting it setup, I installed the Azure Storage Emulator
Windows Fix Random (Seemingly) Port Blocks on Localhost Loopback Interface It has been a really, really long time since I have written a blog post. This blog post talks about a recent problem which I encountered, forgot to write about on how I
az-400 Preparing for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) In this post, I have posted the material which I used to prepare for AZ-400 (Microsoft Azure Devops Solutions) exam.
Fixing Visual Studio 2017 unable to connect to Web Server 'IIS Express' There are so many days in our lives as developers that something is working exactly fine one day and the next day you login and start your project and it just refuses to
Resolving Issue with Logging Formatter & Unicode in Python 2.7 This would be a really short post for reference. In Python 2.7 on Windows, I was using a RotatingFileHandler with a Formatter to add contextual information to the logs. For some reason,
Splunk KV Store process terminated abnormally (exit code 100, status exited with code 100) Howdy! I was doing Splunk development (On Windows) for External Lookups when I encountered this issue. I like to turn off the Splunkd service so that it doesn't keep on consuming my precious
Install Latest Version of GNU GPG on Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04 comes with a pretty old version of GNU GPG. I was trying to setup GPG key for my Github account. On checking the version, I saw the following - blueelvis@
Some Gotcha's for PowerShell! I have been working with PowerShell for some time now and I love it! But, every language has its pros and cons. I am using PowerShell v5.1 on Windows 10 Enterprise. What
How to move projects in a Visual Studio Solution to different folders? I was given a simple task of moving the project folders inside a Visual Studio Solution to a different folder because even though we were using Solution Folders feature of Visual Studio, on
Azure Solving Azure Functions - "cannot find function:" with Event Grid Trigger Well well well... 2 posts in 1 day! (Pats myself on back...) I have been trying to automate the provisioning and deployments of Azure Functions using ARM Templates & PowerShell scripts for quite
Azure OpenSSL Hanging Up When Trying to Convert Certificates on Windows This post is more about me needing this again in the future because I keep on forgetting this from time to time. I was recently trying to convert certificates from PEM format to
Convert a PSObject to a Hashtable in PowerShell This is just for myself when I forget in the future... An object returned by the ConvertFrom-JSON usually returns a PSObject but I need a hash table to properly manipulate and easily pass
Azure Running commands inside actual Web Container in Azure Web App for Containers A blog post on how to run commands inside the actual Web container in Azure Web App for Containers
red hat How to check if Write Barriers have been enabled/disabled while mounting a disk in Linux Some time back, I had to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 and as per Microsoft's documents on optimization for Linux Virtual Machines, I had to ensure that Write Barriers on
Azure How To Export Environment Variables in Azure Web App for Containers Azure Web App for Containers is a nice offering from Microsoft Azure where you could have a custom Docker image running your Web App. This is particularly beneficial when you need to run
Azure Making HTTP Requests on Azure REST API using Azure PowerShell All of the operations which you perform on Microsoft Azure are backed by a robust set of APIs. Be it accessing resources via the Portal or invoking commandlets from Azure Powershell modules, all
Azure Installing New Relic PHP Agent in Azure Web App for Containers In this post, I would install and then configure New Relic's PHP agent to work with Azure Web App for Containers. The custom container image is based on Debian but you should get
Web App for Containers Setting up Logrotate, Rsyslog, Cron & Anacron in Stateful Azure Web App for Containers I had been trying to set up Cron & Anacron in Azure Web App for Containers (Stateful) for some time. I call them these Web App for Containers as stateful when the WEBSITES_
Enabling CORS in Azure CDN Premium Verizon instance I always wanted to work on Azure CDN. It is a Content Delivery Network backed by Azure's infrastructure and is pretty much flawless. In this post, we would be dealing with a Premium
How to add users to a trial instance of Dynamics 365 I have been testing Dynamics 365 in my personal Azure Active Directory where I have a couple of users. In order to test out the solution in hand, I had to add users
How To Deploy Blackfire in Azure Web App for Containers In this post, I will show you how to deploy Blackfire in Azure Web App for Containers. For those who don't know, Blackfire is a tool used to profile PHP applications. This is
Uninstalling Pi-Hole on Ubuntu 16.04 with OpenVPN You might be aware of Pi-Hole to be a advertisement blocking software which works at the DNS level. The way it works is that, it runs its own DNS server and blocking services.
[Process Monitor] -- Dynamics CRM Package Deployer Crashing This would be a pretty short post but I would like to attribute this win to Process Monitor. In my case, I was working with Dynamics CRM Package Deployer. As per the procedure,
Outputting Objects in Write-Debug When you are writing PowerShell scripts for the enterprise environment (I will urge to follow the guideline even when writing personal scripts), you need to have proper logging to ensure that the script
