I am trying to build a web part to be hosted on SharePoint online (part of Office 365). I want to use Entity Framework to connect to a DB in SQL Azure. Is this even possible? I tried deploying one solution, but I get very unhelpful error saying "Web Part Error: Sandboxed code execution request failed.".
Anyone get this combination working?
I found out that this is not possible. The reason is due to the restricted permissions in the Sandbox and cannot use a proxy to bypass that. The only way to access SQL Azure from within SharePoint online in Office 365 is via a web service exposing operations on the entities residing in SQL Azure. I am currently investigating that approach and once I have more info, I can update this answer.
Update 7/27: Using a web service serving SQL Azure data, we can integrate SQL Azure with SharePoint. The component in SharePoint that enables this integration is called 'Business Connectivity Services'.
More can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/donovanf/archive/2012/06/25/office-365-o365-business-connectivity-services-bcs-hands-on-lab-wiring-up-o365-bcs-to-a-windows-azure-service-for-office-2010-and-sharepoint-online-solutions.aspx
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I am junior admin managing ADO 2020 on Prem . We have a developer who is able to create a work item in a board under a collection/project when logged in using ADO .
The developer is trying to automate work item creation using Power Automate . He is giving the correct information in Power Automate at the required fields. When trying to create a work item, he gets this error
Details: {"$id":"1","innerException":null,"message":"TF400813: The user '157adfsd-912f-4244-xxxx-b45fcasda\\firstname.lastname#domainname.com' is not authorized to access this resource.","typeName":"Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.UnauthorizedRequestException, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=acdb03fxxxxxxsdfdsdse","typeKey":"UnauthorizedRequestException","errorCode":0,"eventId":3000}
Question : From ADO 2020 side, is there any kind of permission I need to provide to the developer ? I am not 100 % sure why we get this error as the developer is manually able to create a work item.
To my understanding, Power Automate connects to Azure DevOps Services (that is, the cloud-hosted version of Azure DevOps) via OAuth, and when you are creating Power Automate flow for Azure DevOps, the tool tip when selecting an organization tells you to make sure that the Third Party application access via OAuth is enabled.
I don't think that the OAuth 2.0 authentication (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/integrate/get-started/authentication/oauth?view=azure-devops) is available for the on-premises version, so you might be out of luck there.
There is an answer to similar question in Power Automate-forum suggesting that the integration might be possible via installing an on-prem data gateway, but wouldn't really know if it's feasible.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Connecting-To-Data/Power-Automate-with-Azure-Devops-Server-On-Premise/td-p/658618
I am trying to configure Azure Key Vault and setup Managed Identities for use in CI/CD pipeline for Azure Dev Ops.
I have looked around in MSDN documentation but I only specific links for use with Azure SQL and we are using Azure SQL Managed Instances.
If I did not make any misunderstand, in fact, you want to use Managed Identity work with Azure SQL Managed Instance? If this, unfortunately to say, the Managed Identity could not work with Azure SQL Managed Instance. Please see this doc: Services that support managed identities for Azure resources. It list all of the Azure services name which support work with the Managed identities in great detail.
You can see for SQL database, it only support the integration with Azure SQL instead of Azure SQL Managed Instance. That's why you only see the doc link for the usage with Azure SQL.
Until now, the Azure SQL managed instance only support two authentication method:
SQL Authentication:
This authentication method uses a username and password.
Azure Active Directory Authentication:
This authentication method uses identities managed by Azure Active
Directory and is supported for managed and integrated domains. Use
Active Directory authentication (integrated security) whenever
possible.
You can refer to this thread: Managed Identity with Azure SQL Managed Instance?. In this thread, out engineer provided some work around if you trying to configure the app with Managed Identity.
Is there a way to get the server info of my VSO account and access using SQL Server?
I've tried logging in using the URL
{account}.visualstudio.com
But I got a sever not found error
No, the back-end databases are SQL Azure instances, different from the TFS on-premise databases. I cannot see MS ever giving you access to the database - maybe the data, but not the database.
You can only use the API (old and new REST) and Power BI tools to perform queries.
If you have a specific problem you are trying to solve, post it as a new question because it may be possible without database access.
In Amazon cloud API there is the possibility to get identity data, meaning data from the running instance - on which region it is, dns ....
is there the same option in Azure? as I am creating management system in which the server is installed on a virtual machine and I need to know to which region it is related, all this using REST API
In Azure you can use Azure API Management REST API to get all sort of information for Azure:
ex:
Lists all of the resources in a subscription:
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resources?$top={top}$skiptoken={skiptoken}&$filter={filter}&api-version={api-version}
For the complete documentation look at this page here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn776326.aspx
You can do similar things using Powershell scripts as well.
I'm using Azure SQL, and there is a page in there with metrics
From what I understood the new Azure Managment Portal consumes only public apis. What I'm trying to find out is how to access these metrics via a REST or SOAP api. I've searched through the MSDN documentation but couldn't come up with anything.
Anyone have any ideas?
I presume Microsoft did not provide Azure Database monitoring REST or SOAP API as it would not be used much.
DBAs can connect to Azure Database and gather all the necessary statistics via dynamic management views which are quite powerful.
However, I do not have any article / documentation confirming my presumptions.
try the new sys.event_log and sys.database_connection_stats DMVs instead.
see: Announcing: New System Views for Windows Azure SQL Database