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[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your Service Fabric cluster–Part II

In Part I of this article, I demonstrated how to set up auto-scaling on the Service Fabric clusters...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 11/30/2017

[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your Service Fabric cluster–Part I

Like most people, whenever I need to build an ARM template to do something with Service Fabric, I'm...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 11/30/2017

[Service Fabric] How Not to use DefaultServices in your ApplicationManifest file

This is a bit of a cross post, but wanted to make sure that those who read through my blog can find...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 09/25/2017

[Service Fabric] Full/Incremental backup and restore sample

I recently worked with a client who said that they had had trouble implementing incremental backup...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 09/25/2017

[Service Fabric] Securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster with Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal

To make sure appropriate credit is given to a great article on this topic, I did take some of the...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 01/09/2017

[Service Fabric] Azure Service Fabric with Azure Diagnostics and Nlog log retrieval

I was recently working with a customer where we were migrating some of their Azure Cloud Services...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 12/25/2016

[Service Fabric] Connecting to a remote Azure Service Fabric cluster using PowerShell

If you have struggled with getting the syntax and parameters correct on the...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 12/25/2016

[Service Fabric] The signed in user is not assigned to a role for the application

If you have setup an Azure Service Fabric cluster and secured it using Azure Active directory, you...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 12/25/2016

[Service Fabric] Unable to determine whether the application is installed on the cluster or not

I was working with a customer that was attempting to deploy a simple Service Fabric application from...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 12/21/2016

[Service Fabric] Default service descriptions must not be modified as part of an upgrade

Recently (Service Fabric SDK v 2.4.145) I had deployed a Service Fabric application to my local...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 12/20/2016

Lately, I’ve been working with customers who are doing both Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 and...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 02/16/2011

Creating a bootable VHD image

Whenever I first starting trying to figure out how to create a bootable VHD image and boot into it,...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 02/27/2010

Getting Started : ASPX Association and Initiation Forms for SharePoint 2007 Workflows

I realize that this topic may be somewhat of a bore for some of you out there that have already...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 11/01/2009

InfoPath : Retrieve and Send Data from/to a SharePoint 2007 Workflow

Yes, I know this title sounds a bit odd, and the real title should be ‘When you are using an...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 10/31/2009

Working with the Workflow Foundation (3.5) Delay Activity (why won’t my expired workflow automatically reload?)

I was recently working with a customer who made the statement ‘Whenever I use a delay activity in my...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 10/07/2009

Versioning Workflow Services

A couple of years ago (that sounds like an eternity in computer years), I had written up an article...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 10/06/2009

WF 4.0 Beta 1 : How to Create a Declarative Sequential Service Library

Wow! It's been a long time since I've blogged about anything! It seems every time I think of...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 06/15/2009

Update: Hosting a Workflow Service in IIS

It was January when I initially posted the steps on how to host a workflow, exposed as a WCF...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 10/09/2008

Changing the Look

I was told recently by someone reading my blog that some of my code was being cut off on the right...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 10/08/2008

HowTo: Create a Custom Action for an Office SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 3

Ok, so if you've been following along up to this point in grand anticipation, this is going to be a...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 09/10/2008

HowTo: Create a Custom Action for an Office SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 2

So, in my last post we went through the first steps of what we need to do to create a custom action...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 09/10/2008

HowTo: Create a Custom Action for an Office SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1

Sorry about the long title, but I thought it may help when someone is doing a search for such a...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 09/10/2008

Where's my SvcTraceViewer.exe?

I decided to move into the brave new world of Windows Server 2008. My intention was to setup a new...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 05/26/2008

HOWTO: Host a Workflow Service in IIS (the whole story)

I started out in my attempt to figure out how to host a workflow service in IIS by looking at the...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 01/02/2008

New BizTalk Server Adapters site

Not sure if you've had the time to go out and view the new BizTalk Adapters site....

Author: Larry Wall Date: 08/01/2007

Book Review: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

I just recently began my journey down the road of learning about WSS and MOSS. My primary focus of...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 06/15/2007

Versioning Techniques for Workflows

As of right now, there are no documents (whitepapers) available that pertain specifically to...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 06/14/2007

In the Beginning.....

Hello All! I thought pretty hard about how to title this blog and considering that I wanted it to...

Author: Larry Wall Date: 06/13/2007