Is there any way to fire off a data subscription from using the SSRS web services?
Unfortunately the SSRS web services do not support running data subscriptions. If you want to run subscriptions through a web service call, you could expose a web service on a server that runs a sp_start_job command to the SQL Server Agent job for the associated schedule. Sounds dangerous to me, but it is feasible.
Sure looks like it's possible:
http://geekswithblogs.net/shervin/archive/2007/06/20/113351.aspx
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I am creating a logic app that will trigger when a form request is submitted.
The MS Form connector requires me to sign in. This is acceptable during development, but we have a lot of logic apps and so use DevOps to automate deployment.
With the current connector, after deployment we still have to:
manually open the logic app in the portal.
connect using authorized credentials.
save the logic app.
This manual process completely defeats the point of using DevOps with Logic Apps.
Its a similar issue when using the Outlook connector.
Is there a way to supply server principal credentials to these connectors, so that they are correct at deployment time and require no manual intervention?
It seems that it's not supported to login on MS Forms connector with service principal. Connectors that can use service principal authentication will have "Connect with Service Principal" option, like Azure Data explorer. You can give your voice on this feedback to promote this feature.
API Connections with OAuth authentication, like Office 365 and Microsoft Team connectors etc, require manual consent. Unfortunately, at this point in time, authentication for those cannot be fully automated.
Here is a ticket you can refer to.
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I have a simple scenario, where I have an on-premise system that hosts a rest api. I what based on data in that rest to fill data into a Auzure SQL database using some type of synchronization job. I just unsure of the best method to do this? Can one use Azure Data Factory for this? What other services can do the job?
Under Azure app services is a background task service called Azure Web Jobs
Here are links to help you get started:
Azure App Service Overview: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-value-prop-what-is/
Overview from another website: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2423911
Azure Web Jobs introduction: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-create-web-jobs/
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
There are two teams that are working on a REST service and a web client separably.
Is there a tool that scaffolds a REST service given a configuration can return a predetermined result for a URI+VERB combination?
Looking for the same thing. All I have found so far is this project SOAP/REST Mock Service
but I haven't tested it yet.
What is the best way to create a new Windows Azure Hosted service from a running role using a package and configuration that I have stored in blob storage?
I am guessing that I could use a Service Management REST API Create Deployment request, however running a cmdlet from my worker role might be better. Any thoughts? If the cmdlet route is better, bonus points if you can point me in the right direction on how to run them from a worker role.
Not sure what is 'best' here because it depends on what you are trying to do. If you just need to create a hosted service programmatically it would be about the same to create a REST client, upload a cert, and just do it versus using the cmdlets or anything else.
As the creator of the cmdlets, they have a special place in my heart, but I would probably stick to using those for IT admin tasks. They rock for cmd line automation.
That being said, it is not terribly hard to roll your own client, but I typically recommend that you download the Service Managements contracts from csmanage. That way, you have a simple wrapper around this to get going. While it does use WCF, it is not too onerous.