How To Set Custom Resolution On MacBook Pro Retina

I recently experience an inconvenience when I discovered that on MacBook Pro Retina running OS X El Captain (and even few of its predecessors as I found out) you cannot set custom resolution. Well long story short for recording a video I need to set resolution to 1270×720 which was not among the preset choices of resolution that apple provides. You can […]

Using Client Certificate Authentication for Web API Hosted in Azure

During recent customer engagement there was a discussion around client certificate [a.k.a tls mutual] authentication and how to use it with asp.net web api that is hosted on azure as a azure api app. Apparently there is an article that covers this topic for web apps hosted in azure but it cannot be used as-is for web api as there are some differences on how to get […]

Developer’s Guide to Automated Install of ADFS On Windows Server 2016 (TP4)

Recently I ran into situations where have to build a developer enviorment that needs active directory federation services [adfs] running on windows server 2016 [currently in technical preview 4, hence w2k16-tp4,]. I am intentionally avoiding term adfs ‘v4’ which is really tempting but its about time to move away from these versions. From now on you can simply refer to it as […]

Reporting Unused Disks Space in Azure IaaS

If you’re using Azure VMs in your organization one of the common governance challenge is to identify the unused disk space that was just lying around in azure storage unused and cost company money unnecessarily. This usually happens when vms are deleted but vhds are kept so to make sure that data is not lost or just disks are marked […]