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MacOS Azure Storage Explorer using azcopy indicates 100% then continues trying failed PUT’s and never completes the copy
Slow Australian NBN can't handle the expectation azcopy has about your bandwidth I have been trying to copy a 1.7GB file to Azure blob storage container and it's been failing. I've changed from Azure account login to a SAS URL and have started to investigate what is...
Viewing Azure WebApp Failed Request Traces
If you enable logging and FTP access to your Web App you get access to a directory tree with different formats of logs. I couldn't view the Failed Request Traces because browsers are highly suspicious of XSL files because they can contain malicious processing...
DiskStorageAccountTypes
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/disks/list#diskstorageaccounttypes If you specify a Disk Type or Sku of Standard_LRS you get a Standard HDD
ListAccountSAS Error in Azure Activity Log
So getting an error after doing a heap of study with an Azure Free Trial Account and deleting all my resource groups every night But an error kept appearing every minute in the Activity Log You can see the JSON of the error below. (And if you are worried about...
New-AzDNSZone -ZoneType Private not showing registered hosts
Oh the joys of studying a platform that is in continuous rapid development Just discovered a difference between expected behaviour and actual with New-AzDNSZone I've just created a "Private" zone 'res.toggen.com.au' and registered both resolution and registration...
Check for valid SSL Cert on an SSL/TLS Email Server
Method 1 - openssl #!/bin/bash SERVERNAME=mail.example.com printf 'quit\n' | openssl s_client -connect $SERVERNAME:25 -starttls smtp | openssl x509 -enddate -noout Method 2 - Google Chrome Run Google Chrome and bypass the ERR_UNSAFE_PORT error by specifying the...
Azure VPN Gateway P2S For Windows and Mac
In the Virtual Network Gateway configuration enable "IKEv2 and SSTP" as the Point-to-site configuration Tunnel Type To use EasyRSA certs on Windows. Assuming you have already initialized your EasyRSA ca.crt then you need to create a client cert ./easy-rsa...
Mobile area code – sort of
Just had to enter my mobile number into a Microsoft Certification Website that has an old style phone entry field with a "required" area code. So it prompted the question. Do mobile phones have an area code if so what is it? Sort of...