Note to Self

Note to Self – A Microsoft Integration Journal

  • And all of a sudden, its 2022!

    And with that, another year goes by. Another year where communities had to revamp themselves and learn how to thrive in a online world. Here in NZ, after what started to look like we were pretty much bat to normal life, the reality of living during a pandemic stroked back, like the villain in the…

  • Calling API Management from Azure Function using Managed Identities

    One of the solutions I am consulting on today is securing a number of APIs with OAuth with client credential flow, using Azure Active Directory as the identity provider. Those APIs are exposed via Azure API Management, which makes the validation of the access tokens provided as simple as injecting a policy at a product,…

  • Countdown to Global Integration Bootcamp 2021

    Last January, I wrote about this year edition of Global Integration Bootcamp. As you might remember, this year we locked it on 26-27 February (UTC Time) running two different event streams starting at times that can be suitable for the three main time zone areas- APAC, EMEA and Americas. Lineup We’ve received an awesome number…

  • Global Integration Bootcamp 2021 goes Virtual!!!

    Hey there! Happy New Year!!! Many of you were asking about if we would be doing another Global Integration Bootcamp this year. I know that there is been a while since we provided any news about it, but the team was trying to come up with a formula that would work for our goal of…

  • Azure Functions with a Static Outbound IP Address

    “So to complete our configuration we just need your outbound static IP…” This is something that pops up again and again, specially if you work integrating legacy systems, like banks, government agencies or other older systems that requires a static IP Address to add to firewall inbound rules. In the past I had to use…

  • Recapping Integrate 2020

    Last week I’ve attended the Integrate conference once again. It was my 5th time attending the conference, and the 4th time I’ve participate as a speaker. But Integrate 2020  was quite a different experience from the last years. Dubbed Integrate 2020 Remote, to reflect the fact that was yet another event that had to adapt…

  • MS Build Recap – The AIS Edition

    This year’s MS Build was very different – we all know that. But for most of us, me included, was the first opportunity to join the event officially. And what event it was. Ran across three time zone, with a mix of live sessions, Teams Live events and smaller Teams events, like focus groups, which…

  • API Management – Restrict Operation Access per Product

    Last week I had an interesting request from a client. They have been creating generic APIs, using a variety of different backend systems (on-prem APIs, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, cloud APIs). Those APIs were grouped by product but even within a product they would like to restrict access to only some operations, so product A…

  • Upgrading BizTalk 2013 to BizTalk 2020

    Wow, it has been a long while since I wrote a post about good old BizTalk! But we had some interesting findings this week trying to run an in-place upgrade from BizTalk Server 2013 to BizTalk Server 2020. I know that in-place upgrade is one of the cardinal sins of BizTalk, together with not running…

  • 2019 – A year in review

    Well, it is 31 December 03 January 2020, so it is the official time for a stock take of 2019. I’ve acomplished a lot of things I wanted to do this year, while couldn’t carve time for some other things I would like to do, which I will have to prioritize in 2020. So instead…

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