Monthly Archives : November 2016

Using Azure Functions to Geocode an input file


I was recently asked by a Customer if Azure offered any Geocoding services, not having a clue I subsequently beetled off to investigate potential options – the two that came immediately to mind were Azure Functions and Azure Data Factory.   This post will look at the initial Functions PoC I put together – it should be noted that if…

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Azure Functions “Unable to determine the primary function script.”


A quick note here for anyone else who comes across the rather unhelpful message of “Unable to determine the primary function script.” when working with Azure Functions.  I encountered this when I took a working Function and added it to Continuous Integration.  In order to fix this you have to update the associated function.json file and add the following line above “bindings”: “source”:…

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Deploy an FTP Server in Azure


Over the following post we’ll deploy a basic FTP server which I used for testing my FTP to Azure Blob Logic App. The FTP server has some extra ports opened to support passive FTP which is a requirement for Logic Apps. Pre-Reqs Before we start you will need to come up with two usernames and passwords – the first will…

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