OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect - Terminology
This article covers the terminology required to understand the OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect flows…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 3) - Client Credentials Flow
This article gives an overview of the steps involved in the client credentials flow which is commonly used for server-to-server interactions.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 2) - Authorization Code Flow + PKCE
This post talks about the authorization code flow - probably the most common OAuth 2.0 flow type. And also about the PKCE extension, which can be seen as the successor of the implicit grant flow.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 1) - An introduction
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect does have a reputation of being complex. In this series of posts I am documenting my own endevaours to understand this protocol in more depth…
Always Encrypted: Deterministic vs. Randomized
When it comes to securing a SQL server there are severeal things we need to think of. One of this things is the protection of our data in transit and/or at rest by using encryption…
Service Endpoints vs. Private Links
When I started to dive into the Azure world I found the difference between Service Endpoints and Private Links confusing. In this post I'd like to clear things up a bit and give a quick overview…
How to fix "Wizard ended permaturely" when installing Azure PowerShell via MSI
Well this sounds like a straight forward task. Download the MSI package, run the installed and done. But there is one tiny obstacle that you may encounter…
How to return a custom HTTP status code using WebAPI 2
When developing a RESTful API we sometimes need to return an HTTP status code that is not included in Microsoft's HttpStatusCode enumeration. For example this is the case for HTTP 423 (Locked) and others. This post will give you an example on how to return such a custom HTTP status…