diff --git a/appsettings.json b/appsettings.json
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index f5a8a2dddefdd0c1230826bf328133bc1effe6d1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/appsettings.json
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-{
-      "connectionString":{
-        "defaultConnection":"mongodb://cloudcomputing:foVZXIBfI8rjcuUtGrSSSoxh2tZZ6e7SWioWkXAaByyxcPYoNoke0212u3IMxS1QfRvSknMbXNo1ACDb1kcGsg==@cloudcomputing.mongo.cosmos.azure.com:10255/?ssl=true&replicaSet=globaldb&retrywrites=false&maxIdleTimeMS=120000&appName=@cloudcomputing@"
-       }
-}
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