For security reasons, you should not be storing production setting values in source control. But this means that by default, you don't have your own backup of the values for your live, production settings. What if you want to store a copy of your settings (e.g. along with the artifacts) ...

I was able to migrate a legacy project using .net framework and entity framework to .NET 7 and EFCore relatively easily. EFCore Power Tools was very useful in doing a first draft of model code from the existing database.

If your legacy code uses Entity Framework 6.3.3 or later, you don't necessarily need to move to Entity Framework Core at the same time that you move from .net framework 4.7/4.8 to .NET 6 or 7.

One possible solution to a "You are using TLS version 1.0, 1.1 and/or 3DES cipher which are deprecated" error might be to upgrade any older app services that are using older versions of .net framework.

I have found app.diagrams.net useful for doing architecture charts to document and explain how the different components in a distributed application work together..

In the Azure portal, for Azure Functions, I've found that the Monitor section for individual subfunctions is not infrequently a bit buggy, in that it misses out some function runs, particularly for functions trigged by a timer. To check whether the function actually ran on a particular day, check the logs for the function: they are usually far more complete.

User Administrator (or similar) role is needed for a registered app to change a user's passwords within Microsoft Graph.

It is very hard to find out what roles an app has been granted. When you add a role, document this within the notes section of the app's blade in the Azure portal. Microsoft ought to fix this.

Both last year and this year I took (and passed) a Microsoft exam (I suppose the equivalent of CPD - Continuing Professional Development). Last year it was Programming in C# (certification: here ), and this year it was Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (certification: here ).

This shows you how to add a simple Application Insights query to get your top requested pages which you can then add (pin) to an Azure dashboard.