So we went about setup up, breaking and re-setting up Microsoft Account logins for our AAD B2C WinUI 3 App. Now let's try enabling an Azure Active Directory Tenant to allow us to login to our B2C app using our organizational identities. I follow this documentation to setup the new IdP inside my B2C tenant. … Continue reading Adventures in AAD B2C: Part 3
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Adventures in AAD B2C: Part 2
So after getting everything working by the book, I decided to break everything and see how much trouble I could get into by doing it from memory. Well trouble ahoy! After working through all the issues that I ran into I decided to break down everything that needs to be created and how it all … Continue reading Adventures in AAD B2C: Part 2
AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK
So I've been working with an internal customer on leveraging Azure Active Directory B2C. I noticed that the demo code is a bit dated so I thought I would put together some updated guidance. It's been a while since I worked with UWP apps so I thought I would reboot that as well and get … Continue reading AAD B2C with UWP WinUI 3 SDK
So you wanna be multi-tenant…
I’ve recently been having some conversations with clients who currently provide an on premise software solution. Their product started out as a two-tier thick client and has moved towards a cloud-hosted N-tier web application. Currently they deploy their solution on premise for each of their customers. They think they need to become multi-tenant in order to … Continue reading So you wanna be multi-tenant…
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam: Study Guide
Here are the 9 parts of my study guide for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam. Part I: VPC Part II: Security Groups & NACLs Part III: VPC Access & VPC Peering Part IV: EC2 Instance Types Part V: EBS Part VI: S3 Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling Part VIII: Route 53 Part IX: … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam: Study Guide
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IX: IAM, CloudWatch and RDS High Availability
1. IAM a. Domain i. Users 1. Represents a specific set of credentials tied to the identity of a specific user ii. Groups 1. Group of users that can have permissions or roles associated 2. You can’t nest groups iii. Roles 1. Defines a set of permissions for a specific resource 2. Rather than … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IX: IAM, CloudWatch and RDS High Availability
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VIII: Route 53
1. Configuring Route 53 a. Characteristics i. Name comes from the default DNS port of UDP Port 53 ii. Built from the ground up iii. Worldwide distributed DNS iv. Database of name to IP address mappings v. Uptime SLA of 100% vi. Server health checks b. Record Types i. A 1. ‘A record’ 2. … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VIII: Route 53
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling
1. Configuring Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) a. Characteristics i. Region wide load balancer 1. Deploy to multiple availability zones ii. Fully managed load balancer iii. Can be used internally or externally iv. Layer-7 functionality 1. SSL termination and processing a. Important because if its not done at the ELB it will happen on the … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VI: S3
1. What is it? a. Its not a file system b. AWS Region-level storage 2. Types of Storage a. Standard Storage i. 11 9s durability: 99.999999999% durability ii. Availability 99.99% b. RRS i. 99.99% durability ii. 99.99% availability 3. Replication a. Data is stored on multiple facilities, multiple devices within each facility b. RRS … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VI: S3
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part V: EBS
1. EBS a. Storage Types i. Instance Store 1. Ephemeral ii. S3 1. Standard 2. RRS iii. EBS 1. GP-SSD 2. PIOPS 3. Magnetic iv. EFS 1. Network Attached Storage 2. Managed file system 3. Only supports Linux instances b. EBS Characteristics i. Billed on storage capacity and I/O ii. Does not need to … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part V: EBS
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