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Microsoft MVP for Azure
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How to Prevent Untrusted Apps from Reading Your Browser Password on Windows
Although Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Firefox store encrypted passwords in the user profile location, these can be easily decrypted by another program without requiring user authentication or approval. Consequently, an untrusted program, not flagged by Microsoft Defender or other security software, can easily access your passwords. Let's check out the simplest method to prevent this.
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How to Run Windows XP and Windows 2000 VM on Azure in 2024
Microsoft Azure does not officially provide Windows XP images for the creation of virtual machines. The earliest version of a client OS image available on Azure is Windows 7. Despite this, I have devised a method to operate legacy Windows operating systems, including Windows XP, on the current Azure compute platform. In this blog post, I will outline the steps involved in this process in detail.
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How to Add a Public IPv6 Address to Azure VM
When configuring a new Azure Virtual Machine (VM), you'll notice that it isn't allocated a public IPv6 address automatically. By default, only an IPv4 address is assigned. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of manually adding a public IPv6 address to your Azure VM, ensuring your setup is future-proof and ready to handle the latest internet protocol requirements. …
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How Azure App Service for Linux Runs Your .NET Application
Azure App Service started to support Linux in 2017 as well as containers. It has similar capability as classic App Service on Windows Server, which can run .NET, Java, NodeJs, PHP and Ruby applications with CI/CD and auto scale. In this post, I will use ASP.NET Core application as an example to explore its underlying mechanism to see how it works. …
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Microsoft MVP Testimonial: Transforming Lives in the Elite Tech Community
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is a prestigious recognition bestowed by Microsoft to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the technical community. I am honored to have received this award continuously for the past six years. In this article, I will share my understanding of the MVP award and its impact on both myself and the community.
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Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure App Service with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes
ChatGPT Next Web is a well-known web UI project for ChatGPT. However, the official repository does not offer a one-click installation option for Azure, and it lacks individual account authentication. We will explore how to deploy it to Azure without creating a VM, add access control to log in to use ChatGPT without any code modification, and complete these tasks within three minutes.
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Testing Network Speed Between Azure China and Azure Global for B1s VM
Some businesses choose to deploy their systems across both Azure China and Azure Global. For these systems to function effectively, it is crucial that their communication over the internet performs well. To assess the current state of the network between Azure China and Azure Global, I conducted a series of tests and would like to share the results.
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Cloud Architecture Design of My Email Notification Infrastructure on Azure
My blog system "Moonglade" needs to send email notifications to blog owner when there are events like new comments, new pingbacks, and send email to readers when their comments are replied. I've been building my own infrastructure in the last few years. I will share the journey of how this email infrastructure evolved and the things I learnt. …
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