Index

A

access control

anonymous access 133

Azure Key Vault 228–232

blobs 115–116

DevTest Labs 95–100

role-based 95–96

shared access signatures 132–135

storage 132–136

stored access policies 135

access keys 111–112, 179

access policies 113, 262

Active Directory (AD) 176–177

activity logs 362

actors 379, 387–388

AD. See Active Directory

ADE. See Azure Disk Encryption

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 239

advanced rate limiting 359–360

alerts

configuration 55

AMQP. See Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

anonymous access 127, 133

anonymous logs 141–142

API Apps 305–318

client code generation 314–316

creating and deploying 305–310

diagnostic logs 317–318

discovery automation using Swashbuckle 310–314

enabling CORS 314

metrics 316, 318

monitoring 316–318

quotas 316

API Management 281, 351–366

adding product 353–354

APIs

adding operation to 355–356

creating 352–356

monitoring 362–363

publishing 356

rate limits 358–360

caching 360–362

components 351–352

developer portal 363–366

overview 351–352

policies 356–358

service creation 352–353

API Proxies 377–378

append blobs 115

Application Insights 400–403

performance issues and 401–403

Profiler 403

telemetry 400–401

application logs 49, 52, 56–57

applications

ASP.NET 181

availability of 57–66

Azure Marketplace and 398–399

Azure Service Fabric 379–392

directory queries 207–216

enterprise 265

instrumenting, with telemetry 400–401

integration with Azure AD 191–216

directory creation 194–195

preparation for 192–198

querying directory 207–216

viewing endpoints 197–198

with OAuth 202–203

with OpenID Connect 199–202

with SAML-P 206–207

with WS-Federation 203–206

listener 242–245

Microsoft Application Registry 208–209

mobile 343–351

multi-tier 58

passwords 209

performance issues 401–403

provisioning, with Azure Quickstart Templates 397–398

registering 195–197, 221–223

remote debugging 16

sender 245–246

single page 192

using Azure AD B2B 225

using Azure AD B2C 216–225

using social identity provider authentication 217–225

web 281

Web/API 195–196

application tiers 58

App Service plans 282–287

creating 283–285

function integration with 379

pricing tiers 282

settings 286–287

A records 291–292, 293–294

ARM. See Azure Resource Manager

ARR affinity settings 288

ASP.NET 306

ASP.NET applications 181

asynchronous polling 340–341

asynchronous webhooks 341

authenticated logs 141–142

authentication

Azure AD 192–193

mobile apps 343, 346–348

multi-factor 210–216, 225

scenarios 193

social identity provider 217–225

storage account 135–136

users 203–206

authorization

mobile apps 343

authorization protocols

202–203

automatic asynchronous replication 150

automatic failover 172–173

Autoscale

configuration 25–29

AutoScale 18

auto-shutdown policy 87–89

auto-start policy 90–91

Auto Swap settings 289

availability

high 59

sets 19

application tiers and 58

configuration 58–60

Load Balancer and 60–66

virtual machines 57–66

AZCopy 44

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

application integration 191–216

directory creation 194–195

preparation for 192–198

querying directory 207–216

registering application 195–197

viewing endpoints 197–198

with OAuth 202–203

with OpenID Connect 199–202

with SAML-P 206–207

WS-Federation 203–206

B2B 225

B2C 216–225

code samples 194

documentation 192

PowerShell with 192

uses of 191

Azure AD B2B 225

Azure AD B2C 216–225

application registration 221–223

identity provider configuration 223–224

policy configuration 224

tenant creation 218–221

Azure AD Connect 195

Azure AD Graph API 207

Azure App Services 281, 404

API Apps 305–318

integration with source code repositories 409

Logic Apps 318–342

Mobile Apps 343–351

plans 282–287

quotas 296

Web Apps 282–305

Azure Autoscale. See Autoscale

Azure Command Line Interface (Azure CLI) 7–8

Web Apps and 296

Azure-connected functions 372–374

Azure Cosmos DB accounts

creating 164

Azure Cosmos DB DocumentDB 160, 162–177

accessing from REST API 174

choosing surface 163

consistency 170

database and collections creation 164–167

Graph API database creation 168

GraphDB API queries 168

MongoDB database and 169

multiple regions, managing 171–173

query documents 167–168

scaling 169–171

security 174–176

stored procedures 173–174

users and permissions 175

Azure Cosmos DB Table API 131, 163

Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) 46–47

Azure Files 109

connections to 120–121

storage 119

Azure File storage 41–45

Azure Functions 281, 366–379

Azure-connected functions 372–374

creating 367–368

custom bindings 376–377

debugging 377

event processing 371–372

integration with App Service plan 379

integration with storage 374–376

overview 366–367

proxies 377–378

triggers 376–377

webhook function, implementing 369–371

Azure Key Vault 46, 225–236

access management 228–232

configuration 226–228

HSM protected keys 232–233

key rotation 235–236

logging implementation 233–235

uses of 225

Azure Marketplace 2, 398–399

Azure Portal

adding owners and users to lab with 97–98

API app creation from 306

Autoscale configuration with 25–29

custom image creation with 74–75

load balancing with 61–66

metrics monitoring with 55–56

monitoring configuration with 49–54

Scale Set deployment using 19–21

scaling VMs using 17

VM configuration using 14–15

Azure queues 253

Azure Queues 372–373

Azure Quickstart Templates 281, 397–398

Azure Relay 236, 239–253

Hybrid Connections 240–247

namespaces 240

scaling 273–274

WCF Relay 247–253

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

deployment 111

templates 2, 22, 100–104, 393, 397–398

virtual machines

availability 57–66

configuration management 7–16

DevTest Labs 67–104

load balancing 61–67

monitoring 47–57

scaling 16–29

storage 29–47

workload deployment 1–7

Web Apps and 296

Azure Samples 210

Azure Search 182–186

adding data 183–184

index search 185

search results 186

service indexes 182–183

Azure Service Fabric 281, 379–392

actors-based service 387–388

applications

adding web front end to 383–387

creating 380–383

deployment to container 388–390

migration from cloud services 390

scaling 390–391

clusters 391–392

monitoring and diagnose services 388

overview 379–380

Azure SQL Database 123

backups 147

database tiers, choosing 144–147

geo-replication 149–150

graph database functionality in 160–161

implementation 144–161

managed elastic pools 157–159

performance level, choosing 144–147

point in time recovery 147–149

scaling 155–157

schema and data, import and export 151–155

secondary databases

offline 150

online 150–151

SQL Data Sync 159–160

vs. Azure Tables 123

Azure Storage. See storage

Azure Storage accounts 42

Azure Storage Analytics 132

Azure Storage Queue 128–131

adding messages to 128–129

batch message retrieval 130

processing messages 129–130

scaling queues 130–131

Azure Storage Tables 48–49

Azure Tables 122–128

creating 123–124

CRUD operations 123–127

deleting records 127

inserting multiple records 125–126

partitions 123–124, 128–129

querying, usnig OData 127

record insertion 124–125

records in partitions 126

transactions 125–126

updating records 126–127

vs. Azure Cosmos DB Table API 131

vs. Azure SQL Database 123

Azure Virtual Machine Agent. See VM Agent

B

back off polling 131

backups

Azure SQL Database 147

BACPAC files 151–155

batch messages 130

blobs 30, 42, 109–122

about 110

access control 132

append 115

block 115, 141

containers 112–113, 117, 122

copying 116

geo-replication for 41

hierarchies 117–118

integration of function with 374–376

leasing 119–120

metadata 113–114

page 115

partition keys 122

read and change data 112–113

SAS tokens 133

scaling 119–120

secure access 115–116

storage account creation 110–112

streaming 115

types of 115

URIs 113

Blob storage 30, 111

Content Delivery Network with 116–117

naming requirements 42

block blobs 115, 141

boot diagnostic logs 57

BrokeredMessage type 257

business-to-business (B2B) workflows

Logic Apps supporting 322–331

C

cache

CDN 116–117

configuration 39–41

expiry period 117

host 39–41

local 39–41

providers 181

Redis 177–182

tiers 177–178

caching

adding 360–362

capacity metrics 137

CDN. See Content Delivery Network

certificate authority (CA) 291

certificate permissions 230

certificates

SSL 291, 294–295

Chef 408

cifs-utils package 121

CLI. See Azure Command Line Interface

client-side logging 141

Cloud Foundry 392–393

cloud services 390

clusters

Redis 180

Service Fabric 391–392

CNAME records 291, 292, 294

collections

Cosmos DB API 164–167, 169–170

compute resources 282

compute time 119, 123

configuration

alerts 55

API Management policies 356–358

Autoscale 25–29

availability sets 58–60

Azure AD B2C policies 224

Azure Key Vault 226–228

Content Delivery Network 116–117

custom domains 118, 292–294

DevTest Labs

cost management 92–95

policies and procedures 83–91

diagnostics 49–54

disk caching 39–41

endpoint monitoring 300–303

geo-replication 41

identity providers 223–224

Load Balancer 61–67

Mobile Apps 345–346

monitoring 49–54

proxies 377–378

shared storage 41–45

SSL certificates 294–295

Storage Analytics Logging 140–141

Storage Analytics Metrics 137–140

storage pools 32–39

Web Apps 287–295

Configuration keyword 11–12

configuration management

virtual machines 7–16

using Azure Portal 14–15

using DSC 13–15

with Custom Script Extension 8–10

with DSC 11–12

configuration scripts 13

connection strings

accessing 290

settings 289

connectivity issues 239

consistency 131, 170, 171

consumer groups 269

Consumption plans 379

containers 112–113, 117, 122, 379

Service Fabric application deployment to 388–390

Windows 390

Content Delivery Network (CDN) 116–117

continuous development (CD)

VSTS with 404–409

with third-party platform tools 408–409

continuous integration (CI)

VSTS with 404–409

with third-party platform tools 408–409

CORS 314

cost by resource 95

cost management

DevTest Labs 92–95

Cost Trend chart 92

crash dumps 49, 53–54

Create Alert Rule dialog box 146–147

CreateServiceReplicaListeners() 383

credentials

Event Hub 267

Service Bus queue 255–256

Service Bus topic 262

WCF Relay 249–250

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) 136–141

CRUD operations 348

custom actions

in Logic Apps 340–341

custom domains

configuration 118, 292–294

mapping names 291–292

custom images

creating 72–76

from provisioned VM 72–74

with Azure Portal 74–75

with PowerShell 76

deleting 77

pros and cons of 72

Scale Set deployment using 22–24

custom resources 12

Custom Script Extension

VM configuration with 8–10

D

data

consistency 170, 171

import and export 151–155

loading into storage account 112

logging. See logs

persistence 178–179

read and change 112–113

redundancy 149

replication 111, 171–172

storing

using blobs 115

streaming 115

validation 135

data access 343

databases

Cosmos DB API 164–167

graph 163, 168

graph database functionality 160–161

relational 161, 171

sharding 156

database throughput units (DTUs) 144–146, 157–159

data products 109

datasets

sharding large 122–123

dead letter queues 259

deployment

API Apps 305–310

ARM templates 22

Azure Relay namespaces 240

Azure Resource Manager 111

Hybrid Connection 240–241

Mobile Apps 345

Service Fabric applications 388–390

Virtual Machine Scale Sets 18–24

WCF Relay 248–249

Desired State Configuration (DSC) 7

Configuration keyword 11–12

configuration management 7–8, 11–15

custom resources 12

Local Configuration Manager 12–13

resources 11

developer portal 363–366

DevOps 399–409

Application Insights 400–403

overview 399

telemetry 400–401

third-party platform tools 408–409

Visual Studio Team Services 403–408

DevTest Labs 67–104

adding owner or user 97–99

adding VM 70–71

ARM templates 100–104

configuration

cost management 92–95

policies and procedures 83–91

custom images

creating 72–76

deleting 77

environments 100–104

formulas

creating 77–81

deleting 83

modifying 81–82

pros and cons of 77

lab creation 67–70

lab settings 99–100

policies and procedures

auto-shutdown policy 87–89

auto-start policy 90–91

per lab policy 86–87

per user policy 85–86

set expiration date policy 91

virtual machine sizes policy 83–85

security access 95–100

diagnostic infrastructure logs 49, 54, 56–57

diagnostic logs 317–318, 362

diagnostics 48–50

boot 57

configuration 49–54

services 388

Web Apps 296–300

Diagnostics extension 48

differential backups 147

directories

creating 194–195

premium 195

querying 207–216

disaster recovery 149–150

disk caching

configuration 39–41

disks

encryption 46–47

managed 30–31

premium 30–31, 45

standard 30–31, 45

storage 30–32

unmanaged 30–31

Docker 394

DocumentDB API 173

documents

retrieving from Azure Cosmos DB DocumentDB 167–168

searching 185

domain name system (DNS) records 291

domains

custom 118, 291–294

fault 58

update 58

domain specific language (DSL) 161

DSC. See Desired State Configuration

dump files 49

duplicate logs 140

E

easy tables 348

eDTUs 157–159

Elastic Database Tools 156–157

elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs) 157–159

elastic pools 157–159

encryption

at rest 174

Azure Disk Encryption 46–47

disk 46–48

in flight 174

storage service 111

Storage Service Encryption 46–47

endpoints

HTTP 338–339

listener 250–252

monitoring 300–303

OAuth 202

relay 250–252

SAML-P 207

WS-Federation 206

enterprise applications 265

Enterprise Integration Pack 322–323, 331, 333. See also integration accounts

environments

DevTest Lab 100–104

error message logs 297

ETag 124

Event Hubs 237, 265–270

connection strings 268

creating 266–267

credentials 267

monitoring 276–277

overview 265

pricing tiers 272

properties 266

receiving messages from consumer groups 269–270

scaling 275

sending messages to 268

when to use 277–278

event logs 52–53, 56–57, 297

EventProcessorHost 270, 278

event tracing 49

external users

adding to DevTest Labs 97–99

F

failed request trace logs 297

fault domains 58

file locking 43

files. See also Azure Files

accessing 42

BACPAC 151–155

connections to 120–121

file shares 42–45

accessing files 44–45

creating 43

mounting 43–44

file storage. See storage

firewalls

network 175

First In First Out (FIFO) buffer 253

formulas

creating 77–81

deleting 83

modifying 81–82

pros and cons of 77

full backups 147

full text search 182

functions 164. See Azure Functions

G

General Purpose storage 111

geo-replication 149–150

configuration 41

Get-AzureRmAdUser cmdlet 99

Get-AzureRmResource cmdlet 76, 99

GetContainerReference() 114

GetMessage() 129

GetMessages() 130

Git 404

GitHub 409

Graph API databases

creating 168

graph databases 160–161, 163

GraphDB API queries 168

Gremlin 161, 163, 168

guest executables 379

H

Hardware Security Module (HSM) protected keys 232–233

HDD disks 30

high availability 59

high availability/disaster recovery (HADR) scenarios 171

host cache 39–41

HTTP endpoints 338–339

HTTP protocol 239, 248

HTTP requests 115

HTTPS requests 115, 174

Hybrid Connections 240–247

Azure Relay namespace deployment 240

configuration retrieval 241–242

deployment 240–241

listener application creation 242–245

running applications 246–247

sender application creation 245–246

I

IaaSDiagnostics extension 48

identity providers 223–224. See also social identity provider authentication

IIS logs 49, 57

IIS settings 290

ImageToUpload variable 112

incremental log backups 147

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) 1

InsertOrReplace() 126

integration accounts

adding agreements 325–326

adding maps to 332–333

adding partners to 324–325

adding schemas to 332

creating 322–324

linking Logic app to 326–327

Internet of Things (IoT) 265, 278

IP addresses

changes in 294

J

Jenkins 408, 409

JSON document storage 160, 162–163, 171. See also Azure Cosmos DB DocumentDB

K

key performance indicators (KPIs) 401

key permissions 229

key-value stores 160, 177

Key Vault 46, 225–236

Kubernetes 394

Kudu 299, 300

L

lambda LINQ 167

leases

blob 119–120

LINQ queries 167

Linux virtual machines

creating 6

metrics data 48

listener applications 242–245

listener endpoints 250–252

Load Balancer

availability sets and 60–66

local cache 39–41

Local Configuration Manager 12–13

locally redundant replication 41

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) 111

Logic App Designer 318

Logic Apps 318–342

creating

connecting SaaS services 319–322

with B2B capabilities 322–331

with XML capabilities 331–337

custom and long-running actions 340–341

HTTP endpoints for 338–339

integration accounts

adding agreement 325–326

adding maps to 332–333

adding partners to 324–325

adding schemas to 332

creating 322–324

linking to 326–327

metric 341–342

monitoring 341–342

overview 318

receiving data in 327–331

triggering from another app 337–339

Login-AzureRmAccount cmdlet 98

logs

activity 362

analyzing 141–143

anonymous 141

API Apps 317–318

application 49, 52, 56–57

authenticated 141

boot diagnostics 57

client-side 141

configuration 49–54

diagnostic 297–300, 317–318, 362

diagnostic infrastructure 49, 54, 56–57

duplicate 140

error message 297

event 49, 52–53, 56–57, 297

failed request tracing 297

finding 142–143

IIS 49, 57

Key Vault 233–235

metadata 143

operation 142

retention 140

status messages 142

storage 140–143

Storage Analytics 132, 140–141

system 48

viewing 56–57

viewing, with Microsoft Excel 143

Web Apps 296–300

web server 297, 318

long-running actions 340–341

LRS. See Locally Redundant Storage

M

managed disks 30

managed elastic pools 157–159

maps

adding to integration account 332–333

XML 331

messages

adding to queue 128–129

batch 130

batching 264, 274

duplicate 259

filtering 264–265

identifiers 129

invisibility 129

pre-fetching 274

processing 129

receiving

from consumer group 269–270

from queues 257–259

from subscriptions 263–264

sending

through relay 252

to a topic 262–263

to Event Hubs 268

to queues 256–257

messaging protocols 238–239

messaging strategy 236–278

Azure Relay 236, 239–253

Event Hubs 237, 265–270

Hybrid Connections 240–247

Notification Hubs 237, 270–271

scaling and monitoring 271–277

Service Bus queues 237, 253–259

Service Bus topics and subscriptions 259–265

WCF Relay 247–253

metadata

log 143

reading 114

setting 113–114

system properties 113, 114

user-defined 113–114

WS-Federation 206

metrics 48, 132

analyzing 139

API Apps 316, 318

capacity 137

levels of 137–138, 138

Logic Apps 341–342

monitoring 55–57, 139

performance 402

retention 138

storage 137–140

transaction 137

Web Apps 300–303

MFA. See multi-factor authentication

Microsoft Application Registry 208–209

Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager 304

Microsoft Excel

viewing logs with 143

Microsoft Graph API 207–210

Microsoft SQL Server 164

minidumps 49

Mobile Apps 343–351

authentication 346–348

client application 346

configuration 345–346

creating 343–346

deployment 345

development environment 344–345

offline sync for 348–350

overview 343

push notifications 350–351

target device platforms 344

MongoDB database 163, 169

monitoring

alerts 55

API Apps 316–318

APIs 362–363

diagnostics 47–49

Event Hubs 276–277

Logic Apps 341–342

metrics 55–57

Notification Hubs 277

Service Bus features 275–277

services 388

storage metrics 139

viewing logs 56–57

virtual machines 47–57

configuration 49–54

Web Apps 296

Monthly Estimated Cost Trend chart 92

multi-factor authentication (MFA) 210–216, 225

multi-tier applications 58

N

namespaces 274

Azure Relay 240

Event Hubs 275

Service Bus 237–238, 273

.NET Storage Client Library 141

NetTcpRelayBinding relay 248

network firewalls 175

network isolation 179–180

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment cmdlet 76

New-AzureRmRoleAssignment cmdlet 99

Newtonsoft.Json 307

Node.js 310

nodes 160–161

Notification Hubs 237, 270–271, 272

monitoring 277

when to use 277–278

O

OAuth 2.0 198, 202–203

OData

querying using 127

offline secondary databases 150

offline sync 343, 348–350

online secondary databases 150–151

OpenAPI Specification (OAS) 310

OpenID Connect 192–193, 198, 199–202, 217

OpenShift Container Platform 394–396

OpenShift Origin 394, 396

Open-source Cloud Foundry (OSS CF) 392

operation logs 142

owners

adding to DevTest Labs 97–98

P

page blobs 115

partition keys 123–125, 126–128, 170, 269

partitions 128–129, 169–170, 269, 274, 275

partner-managed identities 225

passwords

application 209

PeekLock mode 257

Performance Counters 51

performance metrics 402

permissions 95

certificate 230

Cosmos DB 175

key 229

secret 230

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 392–393

Placement groups 19

plain-old CLR objects (POCOs) 166

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) 1, 281

Azure Marketplace 398–399

Azure Quickstart Templates 397–398

Cloud Foundry 392–393

OpenShift Container Platform 394–396

third-party 392–399

point in time restores 147–149

PowerShell

accessing file share using 44

adding external users to lab with 98–99

availability set configuration using 60

Azure AD management with 192

custom image creation with 76

disk encryption using 46–47

scaling VMs with 17

Web Apps and 296

PowerShell Desired State Configuration. See Desired State Configuration

pre-fetching messages 274

premium directories 195

premium disks 30–31, 45

premium storage 45

pricing tier 271–272, 282

primary keys 132

proxies 377–378

Publish-AzureRMVmDscConfiguration cmdlet 13

Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration cmdlet 14

Puppet 408

push notifications 343, 350–351

Q

queues 128–131

Azure 253

SAS tokens for 134–135

Service Bus 237, 253–259

QueueSender 256

Quickstart Templates 397–398

quotas

API Apps 316

R

rate limits

for APIs 358–360

RBAC. See Role-Based Access Control

ReceiveAndDelete mode 257

ReceiveBatch() 264

ReceiveBatchAsync() 264

receiver keys 250

records

deleting 127

in partitions 126

inserting, into tables 124–125

inserting multiple 125–126

updating 126

Redis caching 177–182

Redis clusters 180

relational databases 161, 171

relationships 160–161

relays 237. See also Azure Relay; See also WCF Relay scaling 273–274

relay service endpoints 250–252

remote debugging 16, 289

Remote Desktop (RDP) 44

replication

automatic asynchronous 150

data 111, 171–172

geo-replication 41, 149–150

locally redundant 41

options 111

Request Units (RUs) 131

resilience

Web Apps 303–305

resources

custom 12

DSC 11

REST API 174

REST APIs 43, 45

RESTful APIs 296, 305, 310, 340

restores

point in time 147–149

REST services 248

retention

backups 147

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) 95–96

roles 95, 96

row keys 123, 124

RPC listeners 383

RUs. See Request Units

S

SAML 2.0 Protocol (SAML-P) 192, 198, 206–207

SAS. See secure access signature

SBMP. See Service Bus Messaging Protocol

Scale Sets 18–24

scaling

Azure Cosmos DB DocumentDB 169–171

Azure SQL Database 155–157

blob storage 119–120

Event Hubs 275

queues 130

relays 273–274

Service Bus features 272–273

Service Bus queues 274

Service Bus topics 274

Service Fabric apps 390–391

Web Apps 303–305

schema

import and export 151–155

schemas

adding to integration account 332

XML 331

scopes 95

search

Azure Search 182–186

full text 182

Search Units (SUs) 182

secondary databases

offline 150

online 150–151

secondary keys 132

secret permissions 230

secrets

managing, with Key Vault 225–236

secure access signature (SAS)

data validation 135

tokens

recommendations for 135

renewing 135

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 291

security. See also access control; See also authentication

Cosmos DB 174–176

DevTest Labs 95–100

Redis 179–180

Select-AzureRmSubscription cmdlet 76, 98

sender applications 245–246

sender keys 250

Server Manager 32

Server Message Block (SMB) protocol 42

Service Bus

messaging protocols 238–239

monitoring 275–277

namespaces 237–238, 273

pricing tier 271–272

quotas 273

scaling features 272–273

when to use 277–278

Service Bus Messaging Protocol (SBMP) 239

Service Bus queues 237, 253–259, 278

connection strings 256

creating 255

credentials 255–256

dead letter 259

duplicate messages and 259

monitoring 275

properties of 254

receiving messages 257–259

scaling 274

sending messages to 256–257

Service Bus subscriptions 237, 259–265, 278

creating 261

filtering messages 264–265

properties 260

receiving messages from 263–264

Service Bus topics 237, 259–265, 278

creating 261

credentials 262

filtering messages 264–265

monitoring 276

properties 260

scaling 274

sending messages to 262–263

Service Fabric. See Azure Service Fabric

Service Tiers 144–147

session state 181

SetAzureRmVmDscExtension cmdlet 13

set expiration date policy 91

shard maps 156

shared access signatures 116

Shared Access Signature (SAS) 127

shared access signatures (SAS) 132–135

Shared Key 116

Shared Key Lite 116

shared storage

configuration 41–45

single page applications (SPAs) 192

Site Control Management (SCM) website 300

SOAP protocol 248

social identity provider authentication 217–225

Software as a Service (SaaS) 319–322

SQL Data Sync 159–160

SQL queries 167

SQL Server

virtual machines

creating 7

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 151–155

SSD disks 30

SSH keys 393

SSH public keys

generation of 6

SSL certificates 291, 294–295

standard disks 30–31, 45

standard storage 45

stateful Fabric-aware services 379

stateless Fabric-aware services 379

status messages 142

storage

access control 132–136

access policies 113

accounts 42

blob 110–112

CDN configuration 116–117

geographic location 111

key regneration 135–136

read and change data 112–113

types 111

Azure File 41–45

Azure Files 119

Azure Storage Queue 128–131

Azure Tables 122–128

blob 30, 42

blobs 109–122

append 115

block 115

copying 116

hierarchies 117–118

leasing 119–120

metadata 113–114

page 115

read and change data 112–113

scaling 119–120

secure access 115–116

streaming data 115

types of 115

containers 112–113, 117, 122

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing 136–141

custom domains 118

disk caching 39–41

disk encryption 46–48

geo-replication 41

integration of function with 374–376

locally redundant 111

logs 140–143

metrics 132

pools 32–39

shared 41–45

virtual machines 29–47

capacity planning 30–32

premium 45

standard 45

storage access signatures (SAS)

tokens

creating 133–134

Storage Analytics Logging 140–141

Storage Analytics Metrics 132

analysis 139

configuration 137–140

monitoring 139

Storage API 114

Storage Client Library 44–45, 133

Storage Service Encryption (SSE) 46–47

stored access policies 135

stored procedures 164, 170, 173–174

Stream Analytics 278

Swagger 308–310, 312–316, 340

Swagger Specification 310

Swashbuckle 308, 310–314, 340

Sync Groups 159

Sync Schemas 159

SyncTable 348

Syslog 48

system logs 48

system properties

metadata 113

reading 114

T

tables. See also Azure Tables

easy 348

SAS tokens for 134

TeamCity 409

Team Foundation Version Control 404

telemetry 400–401

temp drive 30

third-party Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) 392–399

Azure Marketplace 398–399

Azure Quickstart Templates 397–398

Cloud Foundry 392–393

OpenShift Container Platform 394–396

throughput units 275

tiered pricing 144

Timestamp 124

Time-to-Live (TTL) 117, 265

tokens 203

transaction metrics 137

transforms 331

Transform XML 334–336

Transport Layer Security (TLS) 291

triggers 164, 173, 373–374, 376–377

for Logic Apps 337–339

T-SQL 161

U

UDFs. See user-defined functions

Universal Naming Convention (UNC) 41

unmanaged disks 30

update domains 58

URIs 111, 113

user defined functions (UDFs) 173

user-defined metadata 113–114

users

adding to DevTest Labs 97–99

authentication of 192, 203–206

Cosmos DB 175

V

vent processing functions 371–372

version control 404

virtual hard disks (VHDs) 30, 72

custom image creation from 74–76

virtual machine disks 30

Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)

configuring Autoscale on existing 27–29

configuring Autoscale when provisioning 25–26

deployment 18–24

virtual machines (VMs) 1–108

alerts, configuration 55

auto-shutdown policy 87–89

auto-start policy 90–91

availability 57–66

configuration management 7–16

with Azure Portal 14–15

with Custom Script Extension 8–10

with DSC 7–8, 11–12, 13–15

with VM Agent 7–8

creating

Linux 6

SQL Server 7

Windows Server 3–5

DevTest Labs 67–104

adding VM to lab 70–71

cost management 92–95

custom images 72–78

environments 100–104

formulas 77–83

lab creation 67–70

policies and procedures 83–91

security access 95–100

disks

creating generalized 22

extensions 7–8

images 2

load balancing 61–67

monitoring 47–57

configuration 49–54

diagnostics 47–49

metrics 55–57

per lab policy 86–87

per user policy 85–86

remote debugging 16

scaling 16–29

set expiration date policy 91

sizes 17

sizes policy 83–85

storage 29–47

capacity planning 30–32

disk caching 39–41

disk encryption 46–48

geo-replication 41

pools 32–39

premium 45

shared 41–45

standard 45

workload deployment 1–7

virtual networks (VNet) 179

Visual Studio 2017

API app creation with 306–310

Visual Studio Server Explorer 300

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) 403–408

VM Agent 7, 47

configuration management using 7–8

VM Depot 2

W

WADDiagnosticInfrastructureLogsTable 49

WADETWEventTable 49

WADLogsTable 49

WADPerformanceCountersTable 48

WCF Relay 240, 247–253

credentials 249–250

deployment 248–249

protocols 247

relay and listener endpoints 250–252

sending messages 252–253

Web/API applications 195–196

web applications 281

Web Apps 282–305

analytics 296

configuration

certificates 291, 294

settings 287–290

creating 284–285

custom domains 291–294

diagnostics 296–300

managing 295–296

monitoring 296, 300–303

resilience 303–305

scaling 303–305

webhook functions 369–371

Webhooks 94, 341

WebJobs 366–367

web server logs 297, 318

web services 281

WebSockets 239

Windows containers 390

Windows virtual machines

creating 3–5, 45

metrics data 48

remote debugging 16

workloads

deployment, on ARM VMs 1–7

identifying supported 2–3

requirements 3–4

WS-Federation 192, 198, 203–206

X

XML capabilities

Logic Apps with 331–337

XML documents 331

XML Validation 333–334

XplatCLI 296