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Azure AD - Your account belongs to a directory that cannot be associated with an Azure subscription. Please sign in with a different account. How to fix it How to transform an unmanaged Azure AD into a managed one by performing an IT Admin Takeover and become a Global Administrator from Microsoft Power BI or Office 365 Admin Portal.

August 18, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you've experienced the following error message when trying to connect with the Azure Active Directory service in order to authorize client …

Applications / Servers & Services / SQL / Windows

How to Install, Setup and Configure MS SQL Server 2017 Express Edition A quick tutorial explaining all the required steps to deploy an instance of MS SQL Server 2017 Express Edition on a Development, Testing or Production machine

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If you're a .NET developer working with Visual Studio, you'll most likely know SQL Server LocalDB: a specialized edition of the well-known Microsoft SQL Server engine - firstly introduced in …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

External Provider Authentication using OAuth2 Implicit and Explicit Flow A quick tutorial explaining the key differences between the two grant types provided by the OAuth2 authorization flow

August 16, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Allowing users to sign in using their existing credentials is often a great way to drive additional traffic to our applications, as demonstrated by a number of case studies by …

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User Authentication and Authorization in modern Web Development A list of the most common techniques, patterns and strategies to securely implement a Register, Login and/or AUTH mechanism in a website or service

August 16, 2018November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

Generally speaking, the term authentication refers to any process of verification that someone, be it a human being or an automated system, is who (or what) it claims to be. This is also …

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Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies The Microsoft MVP Award Box has arrived today in all its shining beauty: here are some high-resolution pictures of the box contents

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A couple weeks ago I got the wonderful news that I had been granted the Microsoft MVP Award 2018-2019 in Developer Technologies category: that's an awesome professional achievement that I'm …

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Windows Server - How to Send SMTP Auth E-Mail with PowerShell Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and Net.Mail.SmtpClient .NET Framework objects with PowerShell to send authenticated e-mail messages through a secure SMTP server

August 15, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I published an article explaining how to send notification E-Mail messages with PowerShell. I wrote that post to demonstrate how a simple notification script could …

hMailServer - Mail Server open-source per Windows con gestione POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam e altro

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

hMailServer - Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more Introducing hMailServer, an Open Source Mail Server for Windows with POP3, SMTP, IMAP, AntiVirus/AntiSpam and more

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Being able to send and receive e-mail message without relying to external services is often an handy feature of any dedicated server, be it a dedicated/hosted one or a VPS/cloud-based …

Servers & Services / Web / Windows

Send E-Mail messages with PHP using Authenticated SMTP A brief tutorial explaining how to send e-mail messages with PHP using authenticated SMTP: PHPMailer, SendMail, Fake SendMail and other methods

August 15, 2018May 16, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

The ability to programmatically send e-mail messages with PHP is a feature used by a large amount of opensource software written using the most famous scripting language on the web: …

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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know A list of (great) things you can actually do since the day you get the Microsoft MVP award e-mail

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that your mailbox has been recently visited by an e-mail from Microsoft congratulating you for being awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable …

Coding / Linux / Servers & Services / SQL

How to safely upgrade from MariaDB 10.x to 10.3 without losing data A quick tutorial explaining how to perform a seamless upgrade from a previous version of MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 10.3 keeping all the existing databases intact

August 13, 2018March 26, 2019 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

It has been a while since MariaDB 10.3 has been out, bringing its stunning pack of changes, improvements and new features - most notably, System-versioned tables and Sequences. If you found this …