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azure-notification-hubs

Expert knowledge for Azure Notification Hubs development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when integrating FCM/APNS/WNS, targeting devices/users with tags/templates, scheduling pushes, or securing hubs with Private Link, and other Azure Notification Hubs related development tasks. Not for Azure Event Hubs (use azure-event-hubs), Azure Service Bus (use azure-service-bus), Azure Web PubSub (use azure-web-pubsub), Azure Communication Services (use azure-communication-services).

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SKILL.md

Azure Notification Hubs Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Notification Hubs. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

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Category Index

Category Lines Description
Troubleshooting L36-L40 Diagnosing why push notifications are dropped or not delivered in Notification Hubs, including common causes, logging, and step-by-step troubleshooting and fixes.
Best Practices L41-L48 Guidance on designing Notification Hubs apps: registration patterns, tags and routing, templates, and implementation FAQs for scalable, targeted push notifications.
Decision Making L49-L53 Guidance on choosing and switching Notification Hubs pricing tiers, comparing feature limits, scale, and cost implications for different workloads.
Architecture & Design Patterns L54-L58 Guidance on designing large-scale, multi-tenant, and geo-distributed push notification architectures with Azure Notification Hubs, including patterns, best practices, and integration approaches.
Limits & Quotas L59-L63 Scheduling push notifications in Azure Notification Hubs, including creating, managing, and sending time-based or recurring notifications across platforms
Security L64-L72 Security, encryption, TLS, and network isolation for Notification Hubs: data-at-rest encryption, EU data boundary, SAS/role-based access, TLS version planning, and Private Link setup.
Configuration L73-L92 Configuring Notification Hubs: PNS credentials (APNS, FCM/FCM v1, WNS, MPNS, Baidu), IaC setup (Bicep/ARM/Terraform), monitoring/logging, iOS push changes, and PowerShell management.
Integrations & Coding Patterns L93-L119 Implementing and migrating push notification integrations (FCM v1, APNS, WNS), device/user targeting, templates, localization, and using REST/SDKs (Java, PHP, Python, UWP, Android, iOS).

Troubleshooting

Topic URL
Diagnose and fix dropped notifications in Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-notification-fixer

Best Practices

Topic URL
Design and implementation FAQs for Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-notification-faq
Choose registration patterns for Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-notification-registration-management
Use tags and routing expressions in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-tags-segment-push-message
Design and use Notification Hubs templates for push https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-templates-cross-platform-push-messages

Decision Making

Topic URL
Select and change Azure Notification Hubs pricing tiers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/change-pricing-tier

Architecture & Design Patterns

Topic URL
Design enterprise push architectures with Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-enterprise-push-notification-architecture

Limits & Quotas

Topic URL
Use scheduled notifications in Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-send-push-notifications-scheduled

Security

Topic URL
Azure Notification Hubs data-at-rest encryption details https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/encrypt-at-rest
Understand EU Data Boundary behavior in Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/eu-data-boundary
Apply Notification Hubs security model and access rules https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-notification-security
Plan for TLS version support in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-tls12
Configure Private Link for Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/private-link

Configuration

Topic URL
Configure APNS credentials in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-apple-push-notification-service
Configure Baidu Cloud Push in Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-baidu-cloud-push
Configure FCM settings in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-google-firebase-cloud-messaging
Configure MPNS settings in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-microsoft-push-notification-service
Configure PNS settings for Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-notification-hub-portal-pns-settings
Configure WNS settings in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/configure-windows-push-notification-service
Define Azure Notification Hubs with Bicep templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/create-notification-hub-bicep
Configure Azure Notification Hubs using ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/create-notification-hub-template
Provision Azure Notification Hubs with Terraform https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/create-notification-hub-terraform
Configure FCM v1 credentials on Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/firebase-migration-update-sdk
Configure monitoring and alerts for Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/monitor-notification-hubs
Reference for Azure Notification Hubs monitoring metrics and logs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/monitor-notification-hubs-reference
Configure Azure Notification Hubs diagnostic and resource logs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-diagnostic-logs
Configure APNS HTTP/2 token-based auth in Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-notification-http2-token-authentication
Handle iOS 13 push changes in Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/push-notification-updates-ios-13
Manage Notification Hubs with Azure PowerShell scripts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/samples-powershell

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic URL
Integrate Notification Hubs with Android using FCM v1 SDK https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/android-sdk
Update Notification Hubs REST integrations for FCM v1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/firebase-migration-rest
Migrate Notification Hubs SDK integrations to FCM v1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/firebase-migration-sdk
Use Notification Hubs iOS SDK 3.0.0-preview1 for push https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/ios-sdk-current
Connect iOS apps to Notification Hubs via APNS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/ios-sdk-get-started
Integrate Notification Hubs with Android using FCM SDK 0.6 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-android-push-notification-google-fcm-get-started
Send user-specific iOS notifications with Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-aspnet-backend-ios-apple-apns-notification
Send user-targeted UWP notifications with Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-aspnet-backend-windows-dotnet-wns-notification
Send cross-platform user notifications with Notification Hubs templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-aspnet-cross-platform-notification
Migrate Notification Hubs from FCM legacy to FCM v1 via REST and SDKs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-gcm-to-fcm
Register iOS users via ASP.NET Web API for pushes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-ios-aspnet-register-user-from-backend-to-push-notification
Send localized iOS push notifications using Notification Hubs templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-ios-xplat-localized-apns-push-notification
Target specific iOS devices with Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-ios-xplat-segmented-apns-push-notification
Use the Azure Notification Hubs Java SDK https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-java-push-notification-tutorial
Integrate Azure Notification Hubs with PHP https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-php-push-notification-tutorial
Deliver location-based push with Notification Hubs and Bing Spatial Data https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-push-bing-spatial-data-geofencing-notification
Send Azure Notification Hubs pushes with Python https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-python-push-notification-tutorial
Send UWP notifications to specific devices using tags https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-windows-notification-dotnet-push-xplat-segmented-wns
Integrate UWP apps with Azure Notification Hubs via WNS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-windows-store-dotnet-get-started-wns-push-notification
Send localized UWP notifications with Notification Hubs templates https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-windows-store-dotnet-xplat-localized-wns-push-notification
Target specific Android devices with Notification Hubs and FCM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/push-notifications-android-specific-devices-firebase-cloud-messaging
Send user-targeted Android notifications with Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/push-notifications-android-specific-users-firebase-cloud-messaging
Use Notification Hubs for cross-platform Android and iOS push https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/uwp-react
Send APNS VOIP notifications via Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/voip-apns

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