Category: Azure

Recreating Data Export Service metadata tables with Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

There’s a post title you can’t say 3 times fast. As you may know, the Data Export Service for Dataverse, long used to get a SQL copy of data from Dataverse / CDS / Dynamics, is being retired later this year. If you follow Microsoft’s Playbook for moving over to Synapse Link for Dataverse, you… Continue reading Recreating Data Export Service metadata tables with Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

Exporting diagnostic settings in ARM templates

As part of a recent project, I needed to export an ARM template out of some resources already in the Azure Portal. While testing it became apparent that there were no diagnostic settings in my template, even though they’re present in Azure Portal.

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Missing log entries in Azure Functions

Recently, I went to investigate an issue in an Azure Function, and noticed that some entries I would have expected to be present were missing. This is related to differences between the default settings of Azure Functions and other App Services, and also differences between the structure of host.json (used by Azure Functions) and appsettings.json… Continue reading Missing log entries in Azure Functions

Encountered an error (Forbidden) from extensions API.

When trying to deploy a Logic App to Azure from an ARM template, I encountered this error: Encountered an error (Forbidden) from extensions API. This error message was generic enough to be completely unhelpful. No further details were present in the logs, even with the system.debug (verbose) flag set.

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Azure Cosmos DB: The unknown resource response code ‘NotModified’ is encountered

I was unable to find any answers at all on *insert favourite search engine here* for this issue, which is rare. On trying to deploy an ARM Template containing an Azure Cosmos DB, I was greeted with the below failure message. The unknown resource response code ‘NotModified’ is encountered. Took me a while to figure… Continue reading Azure Cosmos DB: The unknown resource response code ‘NotModified’ is encountered

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JSON schema generation from sample data in Azure Data Factory

While trying to write mapping within a Copy shape in Azure Data Factory, I hit a stumbling block with generated JSON schemas. The problem occurs when you generate a schema containing an array, and the first instance of that array happens to be empty in your sample data.