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Written by Azure Tech Guy

Created: 15 January 2020

• Azure Storage

Here is how you can copy files from one Azure Storage account to another. Simple scenario for this is if you want to move entirely from one Storage account to another. In my case I was running for quite some time on a Gen1 Blob-only storage account and now i want to be on the new modern Gen2 general purpose storage account.

Requirements

• Acces to source and destination storage accounts

Preparations

We want to move the data securely and quickly so the best choice is just by using Azure CLI, the AzCopy commands and SAS tokens to authenticate the requests.

Go to your source Azure Storage account and go to Shared access signature blade

Read more: How to copy files from one Azure Storage account to another

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Written by Azure Tech Guy

Created: 20 December 2019

• App Services
• Web Apps
• IIS
• Redirect
• Rewrite

The default App Service domain xxx.azurewebsites.net cannot be changed or removed. It is there to stay. If you don't want users to access it, your option is to redirect the azurewebsites.net requests to your custom domain. 

If your Web App is running on Windows then you can achieve this with a web.config placed in the wwwroot directory.

Table of Contents

• Redirect azurewebsites.net
• Redirect azurewebsites.net + www
• Demo
• Redirect to azurewebsites.net in Linux

Redirect azurewebsites.net

There place the following code under <configuration>/<system.webServer>/<rewrite>/<rules>. Change the CAPITALZED webappname and custom domain below with your own values.

<rule name="Redirect azurewebsites.net to Custom Domain" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^WEBAPPNAME.azurewebsites.net$" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="http://CUSTOMDOMAIN.COM/{R:0}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>

Read more: Redirect azurewebsites.net to Custom Domain

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Written by Azure Tech Guy

Created: 16 December 2019

• Web Apps
• SSL
• App Service

If you want free SSL certficiate for your App Service - App Service Managed Certificate is finally here. Secure custom domains for your web apps with App Service Managed Certificates.

Let's first talk about limitaions

Requirements & Limitations

• Currently in Preview (might have some bugs, although no bugs reported yet)
• Only works for sub-domains. Naked (Apex) domains are not supported for now

• Can only be provisioned if an active CNAME is directly pointed to your webappname.azurewebsites domain (Live migrate DNS with awverify will not work)

• Needs existing "Custom Domain" entry for the domain
• Requires Basic or above App Service plan
• Cannot be exported
• Cannot be wilcard (*.domain.com)

Read more: Free SSL Certificate for Azure App Service

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Written by Azure Tech Guy

Created: 03 December 2019

• App Services
• Web Apps
• DNS

If you want to change the DNS in Azure App Service Web App, this article will show you how. First, let's say that by default App Service is using Azure DNS servers for name resolution.

They are invisible to us in the PaaS environment and we can't really influence them in any way. So if we want any custom DNS scenarios, we have a way of changing this "Default" (168.63.129.16) DNS Server.

Ok, let's move on to actually changing the DNS Server.

Read more: How to change the DNS server in Azure App Service