When working with ARM Templates, chances are you have set a value that was a storage account connection string. For example, as the value of an appsetting, or as a secret in Key Vault, which I did as an example in a previous article.

However, this does not result in the most maintainable and readable piece of JSON. Even worse if you have multiple connection strings in the same template.

In this article I will show that adding a user-defined function to our template can improve on this.

This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure.

Even though I expected to get some criticism for dropping the Microsoft name at such an event, I felt very welcome. I experienced the event as a large group of very warm people from all over the world that are coming together to help each other out. And like Microsoft nowadays, they set a high standard with their code of conduct (in English).

When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker Desktop for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, there weren’t any solutions. But luckily some suggestions put me on the right track.

In this post I describe the solutions I found. Hopefully preventing you wasting time on the same issues.

Today I presented a session, in Dutch, titled “Gebruik Azure Key Vault in je applicaties en zorg dat niemand achter je geheimen komt” during the TechDays 2017 event.

The session was about using Azure Key Vault to improve security of your solutions.

This will be my second post about Bing for business, “the new intelligent search experience for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which uses AI and the Microsoft Graph to deliver more relevant search results based on your organizational context”.

We covered branding in the first article. In this article, I will be focusing on People Search.