Certificate Management using PowerShell and Lambda Functions

17th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Certificate Management

1. Why Certificate Management is required.

Certificates installed on client machines are one of the critical resources in the client’s infrastructure. Monitoring certificates is critical to any company willing to successfully provide Certificate Management service. The process of manually reporting certificate details is tedious is time consuming, so it better to automate it.
The following document will explain the steps to configure AWS services to provide certificate management for customers with AWS hosted infrastructure.… [Keep reading] “Certificate Management using PowerShell and Lambda Functions”

How to fix 403 errors when managing Azure SQL Database from Visual Studio

8th of September, 2014 / / No Comments

I was recently trying to manage Azure SQL Databases via Visual Studio in a new Azure subscription and was unable to open the SQL Databases node at all and received the following error message.

Screenshot of Visual Studio error dialog.

The text reads:

Error 0: Failed to retrieve all server data for subscription ‘GUID’ due to error ‘Error code: 403 Message: The server failed to authenticate the request. Verify that the certificate is valid and is associated with this subscription.’.

and my Server Explorer window looked like this:

How Server Explorer Looked

I must admit that I don’t often manage my Azure assets via Visual Studio so it had been a while since I’d used this tooling.… [Keep reading] “How to fix 403 errors when managing Azure SQL Database from Visual Studio”