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Staying updated with all things Windows Azure
Windows Azure is an ever evolving Microsoft cloud platform. You may find it tough to stay updated with all the latest features, current news and technical know how’s. To help you stay updated with all...
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Windows Azure Learning Resources
Microsoft has loads of resources to help you learn, understand and leverage Windows Azure cloud platform. This is our effort of listing the resources that are available to help you learn about the...
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Windows Azure IaaS Host OS Update Demystified
Special thanks to Sri Harsha for reviewing this post!! In this post we will look at:Why Windows Azure updates the host OS?How does the host OS update take place?What are availability sets?How does...
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Understanding the temporary drive on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Special thanks to our WATS Linux experts- Joao Madureira, Vittorio Franco Libertucci and Patrick Catuncan for reviewing this post. When you create a VM in Windows Azure you are provided with a...
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Setting up a Passive FTP Server in Windows Azure VM
This post is authored by Lalitesh Kumar, Pradeep M G and reviewed by Avinash Venkat Reddy. Also special thanks to Adam Conkle and Craig Landis for providing the "points to consider from Azure SLB...
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Unable to create Storage Pool in Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure VM
UPDATE Mar. 10: This issue is now resolved. The fix has been fully deployed to all Windows Azure hosts. There is no action needed within the VM itself, as the fix was on the Windows Azure hosts.We...
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SQL Server Configuration Manager error "Invalid class [0x80041010]" on Visual...
If you are using the Visual Studio 2013 Gallery image for MSDN subscribers to create an Azure VM and try running SQL Server Configuration Manager without taking additional configuration steps first,...
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RDP to Azure VM fails with "No Remote Desktop License Servers available"
You can use mstsc /admin to work around the following licensing error when attempting to connect with RDP to an Azure VM:The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License...
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VM Agent available for Azure VMs
The VM agent for Windows Azure Virtual Machines is now installed by default when creating new VMs in the management portal or with Azure PowerShell (February release 0.7.3). Currently the BGInfo...
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Enable RDP or Reset Password with the VM Agent
[UPDATE 07/17/2014] Make sure you are using version 0.8.5 or later of Azure PowerShell as there was an issue with earlier versions where you could not interact with the extensions when the VM was in an...
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Install the VM Agent on an existing Azure VM
The MSI package to install the VM Agent on an existing Azure VM is now available for download:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=394789&clcid=0x409Note that currently we recommend running the...
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Microsoft Azure datacenter's IP location, shows incorrect location when using...
If you have looked up the IP that is assigned to your Microsoft Azure deployments using any of the IP geolocation services then you must have noticed that the IP location and deployment location are...
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How to move your Windows server VM running on Hyper-V to Microsoft Azure
Note: This blog post comes from Manoj Sehgal, Sr. Support Escalation Engineer from Microsoft Azure team. The following blog post will guide you through the procedure to move your on premises Windows...
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How to determine Current Guest OS family - Only for Pass Instance (Web Role...
Set Up Windows Azure Powershell . http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wats/archive/2013/02/18/windows-azure-powershell-getting-started.aspx .Short Version : (For Multiple Subscription associated to your...
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Taking a closer look at Microsoft Azure Maintenance to avoid downtime
We receive a lot of cases where the customer wants to know why their VM running in Azure was restarted and why they were not pre-notified about the same and in the future can we pre-notify them when...
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"Installing extensions on virtual machine..." does not complete on Azure VM
When creating a VM you may see that although provisioning completes successfully and the VM reaches the Running state, Installing extensions on virtual machine... does not complete.This may occur if...
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Avoiding allocation failure error in Microsoft Azure
In some cases you may encounter an allocation failure error when you are trying to perform an action which includes:Deleting and recreating a VMCreating a new VMDeploying new packagesDeploying updates...
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Use port pings instead of ICMP to test Azure VM connectivity
Because the ICMP protocol is not permitted through the Azure load balancer, you will notice that you are unable to ping an Azure VM from the internet, and from within the Azure VM, you are unable to...
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How to Copy files to/from Azure Storage
If you are looking for a reliable way to copy files to or from Azure storage then this blog post might just have the right answer.Note: In this post I am not writing anything new but merely pointing to...
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Unable to add VM agent extension to Azure VM
[Update 7/17/2014] Azure PowerShell 0.8.5 has released which resolves the inability to use VM agent extensions if the VM is in an availability set.Links to install it via Web Platform Installer or...
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