Changing the Time Zone in Windows Server in the Azure cloud cannot be made with the normal process. As you can see on the image below whenever you change the Time zone on the Date & time panel nothing will happen. There was a need to change it because all the log files were showing […]
Moodle 3.9.11+ was recently installed in Azure Cloud. The installation was not an easy ride because Moodle was not prepared to install the application behind an SSL proxy. You may find the solution for this here: Installing Moodle using SSL Proxy.I started to use Moodle then I realize that I cannot add an activity or […]
PHP and LDAP are not good friends. I had always issues connecting to a Microsoft Active Directory with PHP using the php_ldap module. And it was always a pain in the ass to figure out what went wrong or why it does not want to connect. My Moodle did not want to connect to the […]
Today I have faced an issue that Sticky Notes did not start. It turned out that recently, Sticky Notes received a much-needed update for the Windows 10. I have found this solution the Guiding Tech blog “Top 8 Ways to Fix Sticky Notes Not Working on Windows 10” post so I installed the update using […]
Update: Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL: Use PHP (not) to Connect and Query Data article has now some new updates. Microsoft listened to my words, so I have found a documentation how to connect to Azure Database for MySQL with PHP via SSL connection. This can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/howto-configure-ssl Of course this is not […]
After I was able to manage HTTPS with a self-signed certificate on the Microsoft Application Gateway it was the time to redirect all HTTP communication to HTTPS. For that Microsoft offers only a PowerShell solution, you are not able to do that on the Portal. So in my life, it was the first time I had […]
Another day in Paradise with Microsoft. 🙂 Today my task was to set up HTTPS on the test environment with Azure Application Gateway, but the end of the day it was done.
Again dear Microsoft, why do you harden our life when you could make it easier? Yesterday I was able to install Access Database Engine to connect the .ASP application to its database. But because getting An unhandled win32 exception occurred in w3wp.exe all the times, I thought it is time to change to MS SQL […]
Well, well, well. Using Microsoft is fun. Even when you need to use it in a production area. Here is the first example. You want to download a Microsoft tool from the Microsoft website with a Microsoft browser. And what happens? You cannot download it. Because it is Microsoft. Other good example is to use […]
Back on the road of blogging again. So our client who is a big European organization has Microsoft Azure Cloud services and having consultant company for support. Since we would like to run Moodle we need PHP + MySQL. We got an Ubuntu app server. Funny isn’t is to run Linux machines in the Microsoft […]