Security for Windows containers using Hyper-V Isolation
Windows containers on App Service enableyou to modernize your Windows applications so you can bring along dependencies or lift-and-shift your current applica...
2020
Public Preview of the new Deployment Center
The first version of the App Service Deployment Center has been generally available since late 2018. The Deployment Center gives a centralized view of all th...
Public Preview of JBoss EAP on App Service
For several years, Red Hat and Microsoft have partnered to create cloud solutions that enable enterprises to achieve more. Today, we are happy to announce th...
App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) public preview pre-announcement
The App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) project is a realization of several years of infrastructure development to enable a best-in-class, network isolated ap...
Troubleshoot ASP.NET assembly loading failures using Fusion Logging
ASP.NET Framework has fusion Assembly Binding logging (aka Fusion Logging) which allows you to debug assembly load failures in your .NET applications. Fusion...
AppServiceAppLogs is now available for ASP .NET apps on Windows
We have added a new log type for ASP .NET web apps on Windows (ASP .NET Core support is not yet supported). The log type, AppServiceAppLogs, captures your ap...
Health Check is now Generally Available
App Service makes it easy to automatically scale your apps to multiple instances when traffic increases. This increases your app’s throughput, but what if th...
A/B Testing with App Service, Part 2: Server-side configuration
This is the second article in our guide for A/B testing with App Service. See the first article for more information about A/B testing and how to set up your...
GitHub Actions integration is now Generally Available
A year ago we announced a GitHub Action to deploy your web apps to Azure App Service. In April, we added GitHub Actions as an option in the Deployment Center...
Netflix Eureka on App Service
Netflix Eureka is a REST based middleware designed for discovery and load balancing of web applications. For those who already have a Netflix Eureka app, thi...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 6: Securing your web app
The Azure App Service is offered as two deployment types: the multi-tenant service and the App Service Environment. In the multi-tenant service there are tho...
Crash Monitoring in Azure App Service
Application crashes happen. A crash is when an exception in your code goes un-handled and terminates the process. These unhandled exceptions are also known a...
Disabling basic auth on App Service
App Service provides access for FTP and WebDeploy clients to connect using the basic auth credentials found in the site’s publish profile. These APIs are gre...
A/B Testing with App Service, Part 1: Client-side configuration
In software development, A/B testing is the process of comparing two versions of a webpage or application to determine which version improves a metric or KPI...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 5: Add and Secure a Custom Domain on Your Azure App Service Web App
This article is the fifth part of the Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have completed the first article.
PHP Minor Version Update for August 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 4: Migrate Applications to Azure App Service
In this installment of Zero to Hero with App Service, learn how to migrate your existing applications to App Service. If you followed parts one, two, and thr...
Certificate Authorities revoking non-compliant certificates, potentially impacting your App Service
If you have received a notification from Azure about potentially being impacted by the certificate revocation issue, follow these steps to avoid application ...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 3: Releasing to Production
This is the third article in the Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have already completed the previous two articles.
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 2: Continuous Integration and Delivery
This is the second article in our Zero to Hero with App Service series. This article assumes you have completed Part 1. In the last article you created an Ap...
Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 1: Setting Up
In times of rapid change, developers and IT decision-makers must quickly adjust to a drastically evolving landscape. Successful organizations use managed clo...
New Log Types for Azure Monitor Integration
We have recently added two new log types to our preview of App Service’s Integration with Azure Monitor. The two new log types are:
Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps enables you to host, build, plan and test your code with complimentary workflows. Using Azure Pipelines as one of these workflows allows you to ...
General Availability of VNet Integration for Linux Web Apps
Regional VNet Integration is now Generally Available for both Linux and Windows apps. The feature behaves the same for apps on either operating system. This ...
General Availability of Linux Hybrid Connections
We are happy to announce Hybrid Connections for Linux apps is now Generally Available. Hybrid Connections have been available for Windows apps for a few year...
.NET Framework 4.8 is coming to App Service
The .NET Framework 4.8 update is a non-breaking in-place upgrade on App Service. No updates are required to existing applications.
Continuous Deployment for Windows Containers with GitHub Actions
Github Actions enables you to easily automate any part of your development workflow. GitHub Actions are defined as YAML files in the .github/workflows direct...
App Service //Build 2020 Recap
This year, Microsoft Build is entirely online. Live and pre-recorded sessions are available for anyone to view. This article is a recap of the sessions from ...
The Ultimate Guide to Running Healthy Apps in the Cloud
Modern-day data centers are extremely complex and have many moving parts. VMs can restart or move, systems are upgraded, and file servers are scaled up and d...
App Service integration with Event Grid
We are happy to announce the Public Preview of App Service’s integration with Azure Event Grid. Event Grid is a publish/subscribe messaging service that allo...
Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack Hub 2020 Q2 Released
We have released the 2020 Q2 update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capabili...
PHP Minor Version Update for July 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Reduce costs and increase agility with App Service and API Management
In times of rapid change, developers and IT decision-makers must quickly adjust to a drastically evolving landscape. Successful organizations use managed clo...
Running .NET 5 (preview) on App Service
.NET 5 is the latest version to expand the capabilities of .NET by taking the best of Core, Framework, Xamarin, and Mono to create a unified platform for imp...
Announcing Application Insights integration with App Service Diagnostics
App Services Diagnostics is a powerful tool that allows you to troubleshoot and mitigate issues within your application. The rich set of tools under the App ...
Announcing .NET Core 3.1 LTS General Availability on App Service
App Service is announcing GA of .NET Core 3.1 LTS on Linux & Windows today. If you are running .NET Core 3.0 applications, which had its end-of-life dat...
Get started with GitHub Actions and App Service
Last year we shared an article that demonstrated how to deploy your application to App Service using GitHub Actions. We are excited to share that we have add...
PremiumV2 tier for older App Service deployments
The PremiumV2 hardware tier is now available for older deployments of App Service where it was not previously available. A few years ago Azure App Service be...
A New Look for App Service Diagnostics
We are launching a new experience in App Service Diagnostics to help you more easily and quickly diagnose and solve problems of your application.
Public Preview of Private Link on App Service
We are happy to announce the public preview of Private Link for Azure App Service. This preview is available in limited regions for all PremiumV2 Windows and...
Important update for Tinfoil security
We’re announcing that Tinfoil Security addon will no longer be available through App Service.
Announcing public preview for Azure Functions portal UX
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Announcing general availability of VNet Integration with Windows Web Apps
App Service customers often need to access resources in their Azure Virtual Networks. We launched VNet Integration to address this issue in 2014, but our cus...
Run Wildfly on App Service
Wildfly is an open-source application runtime for Java applications, and the upstream project of JBoss EAP. We recently added a new Azure Sample that shows h...
PHP Minor Version Update for February 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 Released
This afternoon we released the eighth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key...
2019
App Service Environment Support for Availability Zones
App Service has GA’d App Service Environment (ASE) support for deploying into Availability Zones (AZ). Customers can choose to optionally deploy internal lo...
Azure CLI for ASE and Access Restriction
Based on customer requests we have added support for automating App Service Environment operations using the Azure CLI. With the 2.0.77 release you can creat...
PHP Minor Version Update for January 2020
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service at Microsoft Ignite 2019
During Microsoft Ignite 2019, this week, these are the Azure App Service sessions to look out for in the session catalog.
Secure your Custom Domains at no cost with App Service Managed Certificates (preview)
Free Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Azure App Service is now in preview! This has been one of the most highly requested features of the service since its...
App Service Integration with Azure Monitor (Preview)
We are happy to announce that App Service has new and improved integration with Azure Monitor (preview). You can now send your logs from Windows or Linux App...
Mitigate your CPU problems before they happen
Automatically mitigate CPU anomalies and save yourself from another late-night servicing call.
Use ARM templates to swap deployment slots
You can now use ARM templates to swap deployment slots.
PHP Minor Version Update for September 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 7 Released
This afternoon we released the seventh update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key c...
Announcing GitHub Actions for App Service
Last week GitHub announced the preview of GitHub Actions with built-in CI/CD; watch the announcement here. These actions, defined in YAML files, allow you to...
Restore App Service domains within 30 days
If the domain was deleted within the past 30 days, you restore it by re-creating the resource under the same subscription and resource group.
Get visibility into your app’s dependencies with Navigator
Application downtime can be dreadful, especially when the app is handling mission-critical load. There could be countless causes for your app’s downtime rang...
Azure Key Vault References with Spring Apps
Securely store and access your connection strings with minimal code changes.
Removing Easy Tables and Easy APIs from Azure App Service
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PHP Minor Version Update for July 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
PHP Minor Version Update for August 2019
Latest version updates to PHP
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 6 Released
This afternoon we released the sixth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key cap...
App Service plan Density Check
App Service plan defines the compute resource assigned to run your App Service. The pricing tier of your App Service plan determines the compute power and fe...
Announcing the new change analysis experience in App Service Diagnostics
In a fast-paced development environment, sometimes it is difficult to keep track of all the changes made to your app… let alone pinpoint a change that caused...
//DevTalk - App Service Certificate - New Sync and Export experiences
App Service Certificates have been a very popular feature among App Service customers. However, our customers often get confused about the sync scenarios bet...
Changes to Routing Rules UX
We will soon be rolling out a series of UX and ARM API changes that will alter the behavior of routing rules for testing in production. After May 22nd, you w...
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Update 5 Released
This morning we released the fifth update to Azure App Service on Azure Stack. This release updates the resource provider and brings the following key capab...
The Data Connections will be removed from Web App menu
Data connections provides a guided experience to easily add a connection string to a new or existing SQL Azure Database or Azure Storage Account.
The Zend Z-Ray debugging feature will be discontinued in Azure App Service on June 7, 2019
The Z-Ray PHP debugging feature will soon be discontinued in App Service. This shouldn’t affect the App Service service-level agreement (SLA) or the runtime ...
App Service Environment Support for Availability Zones (Preview)
App Service Environment (ASE) support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now in preview. Customers can deploy internal load balancer (ILB) ASEs into a spe...
Python 2.7 Now Available for App Service on Linux
Python 2.7 has been added to the public preview of Python on Azure App Service (Linux). With this recent addition developers can enjoy the productivit...
2018
2017
Creating a local PFX copy of App Service Certificate
[Environment]::CurrentDirectory = (Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath [io.file]::WriteAllBytes(".\appservicecertificate.pfx",$pfxCertObj...
2016
Upgrading Python on Azure App Service
App Service is Microsoft Azure’s platform-as-a-service offering for web apps, whether they are sites accessed through a browser, REST APIs used by your own c...
Offline Sync with Azure Mobile Apps and Apache Cordova
How to do Offline Sync with Azure Mobile Apps and Apache Cordova
Azure App Service and ASP.NET Core
Getting started with ASP.NET Core 1.0 on Azure App Service
Cross-Post App Service Auth and Azure AD B2C
How to use Easy Auth to add Azure AD B2C capabilities to your App Service Web App.
Adjusting the HTTP call with Azure Mobile Apps
How to adjust the HTTP call for Android, iOS, JavaScript, and .Net with Azure Mobile Apps
Updates to WebJobs Portal experience
Improvements to the WebJobs Portal UI. Browse logs and set up triggers.
Introducing Failure History (appLens) for Azure App Service Web App
Introducing Failure History (appLens) for Azure App Service Web App: A tool to visualize various data points in few seconds!
Deploying Azure Web App Certificate through Key Vault
How to deploy an App Service Certificate through Azure Key Vault
Azure App Service Web App troubleshooting blade and tools
How to use the Azure App Service troubleshooting blade and tools
Disable Session affinity cookie (ARR cookie) for Azure web apps
How to disable the session affinity cookie on Azure App Service
Speed up your Joomla Web App on Azure Web Apps
How to speed up your Joomla app on Azure App Service
App Service supports Node.js v6
Azure App Service now supports Node v6
Azure Functions The Journey
The Journey of the Azure Functions product and team.