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WordPress Networks - IIS Rewrite Rules on Azure App Service

This is a bit of an extension to my previous post.

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WordPress on Azure App Service using MySQL In-app!

Well, after a very long hiatus from blogging, I thought it was about time I started again. And what better way to start than with an update to my previous post on hosting your WordPress blog in the Azure App Service!

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Hosting a WordPress Site on Azure Web Apps

As I am sure you've been able to guess, this site WordPress is hosted on Azure using an Azure Web App with a ClearDB hosted MySQL database behind the scenes. It's fairly straightforward to set this up, but I have found lately that I need to use both Azure Preview Portal and the current Azure Portal for best results. Here are the steps I follow:

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Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2013

As I have been increasingly working with Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2013, I have found myself continuously re-researching specific topics. Thus, I have decided to publish this post and keep ot up to date with search content and configuration selfishly for my own reference, but if some else finds it useful - yayy! :)

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Trouble Upgrading to Windows 8.1?

I know I sure had a lot of trouble upgrading! I did all the updates like I was supposed to and the download would just not show up in the store! Very frustrating experience. So I did was all good IT folks to - Googled it!

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Uploading a File to an Azure Storage Container

Here's the scenario: You have a file or blob of sorts that needs to be stored in an Azure Storage Container. That's great - how do you get it to the container?? I have done this a few times and PowerShell is definitely my preferred method but I can never remember the steps. So, for my benefit and maybe others, here they are:

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News on the Office Store Front: Subscription Apps!

This is really big news on the Office Store front, at least in my humble opinion, and straight from the Office News blog: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/10/01/office-store-investments-bring-new-opportunities-to-developers.aspx.

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CalSPUG - October 17, 2013

I am very excited to tell you that Ruven Gotz (yes his blog is also part of spinsiders.com) will be presenting the topic "Taxonomies, Content Types and Metadata, Oh My!" this October at our regular CalSPUG meeting day on the third Thursday of the month (Oct. 17th). Doors open at 5:00, presentation should start around 5:30 with food and drinks provided! To register, please do so here: http://calspug-2013-10-17.eventbrite.ca/.

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Multi-Farm Architectures for SharePoint 2013

I have  been asked about this topic a few times in recent weeks and really wanted to keep this diagram handy, so I thought what better place to put it than my blog!  Microsoft has provided a lovely info document on this exact topic which can be found here.

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Visio Shapes for Office 365 / SharePoint 2013

This little things are pretty useful for diagramming out Office 365 & SharePoint 2013 environments: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35772

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