Author Archives: juhap

Fixing invalid SamAccountName in Azure AD Domain Services

Posted on September 10, 2019 by juhap

Azure AD user had been initially created with a typo on his name. All the attributes had since then been fixed or so it looked like. Everything else worked fine, but this particular user could not log-on to Azure AD … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure |

Using Azure.Storage module from Azure PowerShell function

Posted on May 18, 2019 by juhap

I was building a simple tool to automate some uploads to Azure Blob Storage in Azure Functions. Decided to use PowerShell for that, since well, sounds like a job for PowerShell! Getting the script to work on my computer was … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure |

Site-to-site VPN with Meraki and Azure

Posted on February 27, 2019 by juhap

After setting up point-to-site VPNs on Azure, I thought I’d just throw in quickly also a site-to-site connection between the office Meraki MX device and the Azure VPN gateway. Turned out it was not so straightforward. The VPN gateway on … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure |

Ping with timestamps

Posted on January 31, 2017 by juhap

Sometimes it is handy to run ping on the background to monitor network connectivity. Combine Microsoft PowerShell and the PsPing utility from Microsoft and you get a nice logging solution with shows on each line a timestamp and the results … Continue reading →

Posted in Windows |

Git on Windows & Github, authentication suddenly stopped working

Posted on January 28, 2017 by juhap

I’m using Github 2FA and git on Windows with the Windows Credentials store credential helper. This can be configured with git config –global credential.helper wincred Couple of times git has suddenly started complaining “remote: Repository not found” when trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc |

QC35, Windows, Bluetooth audio

Posted on January 5, 2017 by juhap

I started investigating pairing problems with my Bose QC35 headphone/headset and Windows. At first I was wondering why I actually see two separate QC35 devices with different icons in the pairing list. Soon I figured out the other one was … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc |

Get SSL cert in PFX format using OpenSSL

Posted on January 14, 2016 by juhap

Steps for getting SSL certificate in pfx format (suitable for Azure for example) Upload CSR, get the Certificate and save it local file. Get the intermediate certificates (if needed). Concatenate the intermedia certs to one file: Export:

Posted in Azure |

Azure, add IP address to cloud service

Posted on May 24, 2015 by juhap

Azure now supports multiple IP addresses per cloud service. This means you can for example host multiple web sites, each running in different IP address on one cloud service (1..n virtual machines). Right now it seems to be be possible … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure |

Azure CLI tools, Credentials have expired, please reauthenticate

Posted on May 17, 2015 by juhap

After installing Azure CLI tools and trying to use them on the first time on Windows, I started getting “Credentials have expired, please reauthenticate Detailed error message from ADAL is as follows: Error: Entry not found in cache.” error message. … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure |

IntellijJ IDEA: Maven home directory is invalid

Posted on May 11, 2014 by juhap

When creating a new project based on Maven archetype IntelliJ IDEA wants know certain Maven related directories. It took few minutes to figure out what IDEA actually wants here and answering wrong gives the not very informative “Maven home directory … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc |