Windows Azure is a service that enables you to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft datacenters. The services require no up-front expenses, no long term commitment, and enable you to pay only for the resources you use.
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Hosting a Azure Service on a Local Machine for testing
I am developing a Azure based cloud application. I have two machine, lets name them as M1 and M2. On M1, I am running my azure service using Azure Storage Emulator, which by default runs on port 81, ...
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Wndows Azure: “Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V has been removed.”
When I am trying to yum update my centos in Windows Azure, the following appeared
Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V has been removed. Please reboot your system.
So I reboot it. But ...
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Azure extra small vm availability set [closed]
My current extra small vm reaches the limits, so I decided to create a second extra small instance and add the two into a availability set so my service is everytime available and through the load ...
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Windows Azure Ubuntu - 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd error while making an FTP connection
I have created a VM on Windows Azure and running Ubuntu on that I have been able to successfully communicate using the http protocol on port 80
However, I am not able to make a successful FTP ...
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Windows Azure Cloud Service - add Local Security Policy to a user account in startup task
I have a Windows Azure Cloud Service project that includes a startup task Startup.cmd file to create some scheduled tasks. In this file I am using the command line to create a user account which I ...
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Unable to deploy Cloud Service with Class 1 certificate
I have a brand new Cloud Service on which I want to deploy a .NET application (WebRole). The only means of access is HTTPS, so I generated a certificate (http://www.startssl.com/) and uploaded it to ...
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Resell Azure websites? [closed]
I am using for all my stuff currently Azure. I decided to offer reseller web space to my clients. Should I stay at Azure or choose a reseller package from one of the many hosters out there.
Is it ...
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CentOS/Postfix cannot receive or send emails to external domains
I run CentOS 6 server on Windows Azure cloud. Plesk 11 installed. And the problem is that I cant use webmail service since it doesn't send or receive emails. Port 25 looks closed from MXTools
Things ...
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Site-to-site VPN between Azure Virtual Network and a Cisco RV016
I'm attempting to configure a Cisco RV016 router to connect to an Azure Virtual Network to create a site-to-site VPN, but it's not working.
I'm aware that a Cisco RV016 is not in the list of ...
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Font Awesome isn't displayed in IE, althrough in Chrome&Firefox it works [closed]
I am running a Wordpress site on Azure Websites. My theme uses "Font Awesome" and the icons are displayed correctly in Firefox and Chrome. In IE10 the icons are just "▯" or are missing completly!
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Need to run windows service and MySQL, what remote/cloud service options do I have? [closed]
As the title suggests, I need to set up MySQL database which can be accessed by two (or more) different sites. The only snag with this is that we need to run a windows service alongside it (this is a ...
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How to manage cname, MX and Azure
I am hosting my domain at 1&1 and have a VM and a mobile service in Azure. Currently I have set a cname to xxx.cloudapp.net. Now I want to create a subdomain for my Azure mobile service (something ...
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Azure website virtual drive and scaling
My current understanding of Azure for websites is that it is using a virtual drive which allows a website to save files to the file system in the same way a classic server setup would do.
The ...
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Using Application Initialization with Azure is still proving painfully slow
My assumption was that if I turned on IIS8 Application Warmup in Azure, that all of my sites would be fairly instant on load, this is not the case.
So, basically, I've turned on preloadEnabled and ...
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Do I need to backup my azure vm?
I learned that the VM resides in different disk drives so it's tolerant to faults.
Do I still need to backup my azure VM?
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Windows Azure Blob Storage Data Migration
I would like to back up the files I currently have in Azure Blob Storage and move them elsewhere. The problem is that pulling them one by one would take me several weeks, even within the same ...
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Windows Server 2012 - Azure Online Backup Status?
What is the current status of Windows Server 2012 Online Backup. All of the documentation provides a start point of Windows Azure Online Backup and tells you to download a software agent.. But at this ...
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What tooling already exists to scale down Azure Web and Worker roles during off peak times?
Having inherited a large number of Dev, Test, UAT and Integration environments I notice that a very large number of deployments are left idle during evenings and weekends. We have done what we can to ...
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Windows Azure - HDD Size
I am playing with Windows Azure to create an small VM to host a service that almost doesn't take any space.
Windows Azure creates a default 130gb disk, with about 100gb free. That's way too much. I ...
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Azure remote desktop certificate user rights
I'm trying to configure remote desktop for an Azure instance as explained all over the net and I keep getting this error: The certificate ...
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Is There a performance improvement in Windows Azure? [closed]
guys, how are you doing?
This week was annuncied infrastructure-services news, and I had problems with my blog. My first thought was if the CGI services in Azure Web Sites was broken (my blog is ...
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Azure Static Site with ServiceDefinition.csdef
I have a static website that I'm hosting on an azure web site. I have the need to run an elevated startup task and I believe the way to do this is via a ServiceDefinition.csdef file.
The problem is, ...
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Trouble passing Trustwave PCI Scan due to BEAST vulnerability
I'm at my wits end with this one! I am not a CI/networking person to begin with, and so I apologize if I am asking the wrong question/giving the wrong information.
I am working on trying to get a ...
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Why is PHP -> MSSQL very slow when the DB is not on the same machine as the PHP code
In the course of trying to move our website to Azure, we've found a problem with our PHP code talking to MSSQL.
On the current dedicated host (hosting both the PHP and the DB), going to a page ...
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Windows Azure Linux VM, teredo tunnel and squid proxy
I have teredo working so that I can ping VM via ipv6, squid3 is also working fine but only via ipv4. I made two endpoints (tcp and udp) to the proxy (port 8888) on the Azure site. What should I do now ...
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Authenticating Clients against their own Active Directory
We are creating an application that will (hopefully) allow users to authenticate by multiple means. Either cloud-based services (google,facebook, etc.) or--hopefully--by their own company's Active ...
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Azure downtime events - historical list available? [closed]
I am considering Azure for hosting and was curious if there is a list maintained of their downtime events... giving type of event, event time, outage type... Basically - how often has Azure hosted ...
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Migrating data from SQLEXPRESS local DB to SQL Azure
I have a process that is importing data from CSV files to a local SQL Express DB, then I can use the SQL Server 2012 migration tool to migrate the database to SQL Azure (as described in ...
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Azure Cent OS Unmounts my data Drive
I have a Cent OS VM instance running on Windows Azure. I have a 1TB data drive mounted to that VM to hold an application's database files. Every week or so at inconsistent intervals, my database ...
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Error while attaching a disk in Azure causes all attached disks to be lost
I had a Virtual Machine (Medium sized) with a 50GB drive attached. There was a single volume on the disk mapped to F. I then created another disk (500GB) and attached this one to the Virtual Machine ...
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Previously I was able to remote into my azure virtual machine (windows server 2008r2) but now I get remote logins are currently disabled
Up until today I was able to remote desktop into my windows server 2008 r2 virtual machine running in Azure and I was messing around with the settings for remote desktop session timeouts and now I get ...
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Does anyone know where I can get a linux python SDK for azure? [closed]
I've been looking high and low. The microsoft website even has this link - https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/python/common-tasks/install-python/ but when I follow the instruction to execute ...
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How do I troubleshoot DNS Server on Azure not handling updates?
I have a virtual network on Azure, without a cloud service, and am attempting to create a DNS on the first node as advised in this article:
Seting up DNS within an Azure Virtual Network
The DNS ...
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“The system is going down for power off NOW!” - Windows Azure machine shut down itself, how to check for the cause of it?
"The system is going down for power off NOW!" This is what I see from putty when SSH to my Centos VM on Windows Azure. Is there any log files that I can check to find out the cause of such failure? ...
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Failover Azure VM running SQL Server?
I'm currently looking at hosting an SQL Server database on an Azure Virtual Machine Instance and connecting the website via two load balancing web-roles. Due to various limitations in our application ...
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How to set up CNAME to point to Azure
Here's the story. I have an application on azure. I would like to set up an A-record. My main domain is myhost.dk and my azure adress is myhost.azurewebsites.net. The Azure guide says that I have to ...
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Recreate Azure virtual machine from existing and working disk
This morning I found that my Azure VM was dead dead. It was impossible for me to reboot or shut it down.
Anyway I managed to delete the VM instance and make a snapshot copy of the VHD (who never ...
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How to compare RDP latency?
For a remote Windows desktop solution, accessed from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, I want to evaluate various options. What currently comes into my mind:
EC2, Ireland
Azure Virtual Machine, Ireland
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How to reset and persist the hostname and FQDN of an WIdows Azure Centos instance?
How does one reset a hostname and domain name (FQDN) to localhost.localdomain on a Centos 6.2 Azure Instance? I've tried editing /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/sysctl.conf, setting the hostname ...
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500.19 error on Azure only
My application reads in and parses XML files into a SQL database (also Azure hosted). Files up to 15 mb or so don't give me any problems but the next largest file I have to test with is 30mb and it ...
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How can I replicate performance counter setups in an Azure WorkerRole?
I am trying to collect performance statistics on our Azure application. Up till now, our process has been to set up the roles with RDP enabled, connect, manually set up the performance counters, log ...
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Seting up DNS within an Azure Virtual Network
I have a few Cloud Services, and a VM running Redis in Azure. From what I understand I need to create a Virtual Network so the cloud services can communicate to Redis on the VM. That was easy. Now ...
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Troubleshooting endless provisioning in Azure after custom image deployment
I have tried to create a custom Linux VM image based on openSuse 12.2 with Suse Studio. I have used Studio's upload to Azure feature to deploy the image to my BLOB container. I have made sure I ...
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CPanel installation on Azure CentOS, gcc install fails
I am trying to install CPanel on a Centos VM on windows azure. Yum is failing to install gcc, which is required by the cpanel installer.
I am getting this
Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.80.el6.i686 ...
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Azure Table Storage mirroring
I am proposing an Azure environment with the following:
VM SQL Server for core relational data
Table Storage for bulk data
I want to mirror the SQL Server database to another server so that
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Windows Azure: file share, named pipe between virtual machines
I'm not able to get named pipes working within a single VM or across 2 VMs within Azure.
Availability set is not an option.
So, if the VM name is testVM.cloudapp.net, the named pipe is failing with ...
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HTTPS connections refused from one domain on CentOS VM running Plesk 11, Windows Azure
I'm running a CentOS 6.3 virtual machine on Windows Azure using Plesk Panel 11. The default domain running the server works fine (it is only used for Plesk). HTTPS works, however no ssl certificate is ...
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Host name resolution without a DNS server
I have a virtual network setup in the Azure cloud. The virtual machines (all with Windows Server 2008) can only identify each other by IP and not by host name. To do this I need to set up my own DNS ...
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Windows Azure - ssh connection rejected after restart
I was testing autostart scripts and launched reboot , after that i couldn't connect to the server anymore. Getting connection rejected right away.
In their admin UI server status is running.
Only ...
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Can an email server be set-up on an Azure VM?
I am considering the possibility of setting up a simple SMTP+IMAP email server for internal use on an extra small Azure VM. When I say internal use I don't mean "used by internal users", but for use ...
