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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How to turn off Windows Azure's “This copy of Windows is not genuine” message?
Is there any setting/configuration item to avoid Windows Azure from printing that error on the screen or detecting it? I've put a screenshot below that shows the message when you RDP into the web ...
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Is it possible to have a Git repo in Windows Azure?
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a Git repo hosted on Windows Azure?
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Unclear pricing of Windows Azure [closed]
How do you people think about the Windows Azure pricing model and the way it is presented to the user? I just found out that Azure keeps charging hours for STOPPED instances. I just received a bill ...
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What is a Windows Azure Compute Hour? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
According to pricing details on the Microsoft Windows Azure website, compute hours cost 12 cents each, but what are ...
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Hosting wildcard domains such as *.mydomain.com on Windows Azure without using redirections
I have an ASP.NET MVC app which offers wildcard domains to my users to personalize their login urls.
I'd like to host this on Windows Azure. But is it possible to keep the wildcard domains?
I've ...
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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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Azure Virtual Machines - what fault tolerance do they provide?
We are thinking about moving our virtual machines (Hyper-V VHDs) to Windows Azure but I haven't found much about what kind of fault tolerance that infrastructure provides. When I run VHD in Azure, ...
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Azure VM with many IPs or SSL certificates
I am looking to move our hosting environment to Azure and by doing so have created a sandpit VM to figure things out. We host around 300-400 websites in IIS and about 2% of these sites have unique, ...
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Why do caught exceptions cause IIS or even entire Windows Azure server to fail?
I have a Windows Azure applicaion (web-role) which I'm having serious problems with.
If there are problems with one of my databases which the application connects to (in this case, SQL Azure ...
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How to recreate a RAID 10 array with mdadm
So our virtual machine has broken (it's actually a Linux machine in Azure) on which we were running a RAID10 array of 4 disks. It's an ubuntu box. From what I can tell the four data disks are fine, ...
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How many domains can be bound with one SSL certificate?
Let say I have an ASP.NEt application which is bound with more than 10 domains using host headers. Is one certificate is enough for me? or I need more than 1 certificate for each domain? If I need 1 ...
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?
I had asked this question on StackOverflow. It was suggested to post it here too.
When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?
Please share ...
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Setup Private Cloud on Windows Server 2008 R2
My developers are building an app that may eventually be hosted in Windows Azure. However, we want to host it internally first for a variety of reasons. They pointed me to the concept of a "private ...
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How to migrate an existing Windows Server 2008 R2 system from Amazon EC2 to Windows Azure?
Let's say you have a Windows Azure Virtual Machine preview account.
I would like to know if there is an easy strategy for migrating a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation from Amazon EC2 to Windows ...
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Can I put a budget on a Windows Azure account?
I'm organising Windows Azure training and need to prepare a budget for such a course. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a way to limit the number of running instances, usage of the different ...
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How do we over come the CNAME restrictions?
Windows Azure uses elastic IPs. This means that the only way to map hostnames to Azure is to use CNAMES. The RFC is preventing us from doing this with the root of the domains.
mycooldomain.com IN ...
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Is Sql Azure useful without windows azure?
I am currently doing some research to get some preliminary IT cost projections for a project, and I was looking at Azure. Since this is a startup, I do not want to deal with the IT operations myself ...
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Multiple IP for 1 Azure Deployment
Is there a way to get multiple IP addresses for one Azure deployment?
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Is customer data in SQL Azure safe?
We're looking into the idea of moving an ASP.NET MVC app into Windows Azure, but I'm interested to hear if SQL Azure is safe enough for me to store customer data, such as their home addresses, etc.
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Accessing Azure VM Role by Remote Desktop
I followed the instruction here to set up and deploy a VM Role onto Azure. It all worked fine.
But I cannot RDP onto it.
If you check the link above, after I click 'Connect' in step 4, it remains ...
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Encrypting an Azure database?
We have a database hosted by SQL Azure, and accessed via a REST service that itself is accessible only via https. We wonder though whether we should encrypt all or part of the database in case it was ...
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How to setup a domain that doesn't use www prefix on Azure/EC2
Suppose I have a domain, foo.com where I have a series of pages like foo.com/123 and foo.com/456 etc. I want to use the domain and provide links without a www prefix. These pages also will have ...
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Is EU hosted Azure data safe from the patriot act? [closed]
I read recently some news about how MS will have to hand over data to the US government if they asked for it. ( ...
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1&1 hosting + azure cname + google apps mx
I have a problem while hosting my website on azure :
I need to have an url mydomain.com, when deploying in azure it gives the url mydomain.cloudapp.net, so I do a cname record from mydomain.com to map ...
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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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Azure load-balancing strategy
I'm currently building out a small web deployment using VM instances on MS Azure. The main problem I'm facing at the moment is trying to figure out how to get the load-balancing to detect if a ...
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Does SQL database perform significantly better on a dedicated machine vs Azure cloud
I'm looking into splitting our database server and application server and am evaluating offerings from Rackspace and Azure specifically around the database server. We are a Saas Web application and ...
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Unsure of how to setup two Virtual Machines on Windows Azure to match my desired architecture
I'm in the process of trying to setup a couple Win2008 Server Virtual Machines on Windows Azure (using the VM Preview feature) and I'm not sure how to get my desired "architecture" setup properly. ...
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Windows Azure and GoDaddy problem
I am having a problem getting my CNAME and A records right.
Assumptions:
Azure Name : MyApplication.cloudapp.net
GoDaddy DomainName : MyDomain.com
I want both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com 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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PowerShell create new Azure VM from uploaded disk (not image)
I have a VHD in Azure storage. That VHD is configured as an OS disk through a command like the following:
Add-AzureDisk -DiskName $newCode -MediaLocation ...
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Cross-cloud deployment: Servers on azure - Mongodb at MongoHQ (AWS) - known pitfalls?
Looking to deploy an existing Mongodb-backed solution to the cloud for a client.
I'm hoping to combine MongoHQ and Azure to use the simplest possible Mongodb deployment together with the simplest ...
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Cannot connect to Windows Azure virtual network with netgear router
Has anyone sucessfully connected to a Windows Azure Virtual network using a Netgear router?
I am attempting to connect to a Windows Azure virtual network using a Netgear FVS318G VPN firewall router. ...
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how to configure SSL for a Tomcat web application hosted on Azure?
i need to enable SSL on a tomcat web application which is hosted on Azure.
i managed to enable SSL on the standalone tomcat web app using this info:
tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/ssl-howto.html
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TCP Window Size going to 0 / Wget stops downloading?
I have a somewhat complex setup that doesn't work, and I'm struggeling quite a bit to track down the root cause.
First of all the big picture:
Node backend is a medium size windows azure worker role ...
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SSL Cert for custom domain endpoint on Azure CDN
We have some content hosted for our Azure application on the Azure CDN - we can access this nicely over https using the standard endpoint address, however for 'neatness' our customer would like to use ...
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Use Microsoft DPM 2010 with Azure or Amazon S3?
Does anyone know of any software that hooks up with Microsoft's DPM 2010 or even the new 2012 to ship data to cloud storage providers like Azure or S3?
We utilize D2D backups today but want a more ...
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How do I setup sending emails from Windows Azure through my company server?
In my Windows Azure web role I need to send emails. Looks like one of the options is to use my company SMTP server. I asked our admins - they say I have to join the Azure role into our corporate VPN ...
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Simple command line storage tools for Azure Storage (like s3cmd, sdbShell)?
I'm currently backing up/migrating Amazon S3 and SimpleDB data from AWS to my on premise systems using sdbShell and s3cmd. Works great.
Now we're putting an app up on Microsoft Azure and I want to ...
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Can I replicate data between mySQL and SQL Server/SQL Azure?
I have a replicated mySQL setup running happily on Amazon AWS, making user data available locally in various regions. Now I'm faced with an app that needs to go up on Microsoft Azure and I need to ...
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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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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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FTP issue with Azure VM
I am trying to run a working FTP script on my Azure VM with Server2012.
All firewalls are off for this test.
Port20/21 is an open endpoint.
OPEN ftp.domain.co.uk
user
password
cd current
binary hash
...
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Possible to use Azure xDrive (PageBlob) with on-premises Windows 2008R2
Azure's Windows 2008R2 based hosts currently use blob storage for something called XDrive.
Since this is just a driver and a few other system components, has anyone figured out what files need to be ...
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How do I access the Windows Event Logs on a server instance in Windows Azure?
Can the Event Logs be access on Windows Azure for a deployment with multiple instances? It would be able to view the event logs of each server instance if necessary. The "black box" things just ...
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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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Restoring SQL Server backup to SQL Azure on SQL Management Studio
I am using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 to connect my SQL Azure account. I have had no problems connecting to the database.
However, when I tried to backup existing database from my ...
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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 ...
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Is DHCP lease expriring years from now okay? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
1 Year DHCP Lease
I'm reviewing Azure web role logs and there's output from ipconfig /all
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.61.145.37(Preferred) .
Subnet Mask . . ...
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Why should we consider Azure?
It seems like Azure is getting a lot of buzz lately, but it's doesn't seems to make sense for us. Here are our basic details
Primarily .NET/Microsoft
Primarily intranet
applications, but also have ...
