Event ID 2: Session "WindowsAzure-GuestAgent-Metrics" failed to start with...
You may notice the following error on an Azure VM in the event log under Applications and Services Logs, Microsoft, Windows, Kernel-EventTracing, Admin:Log Name:...
View ArticleAzure Import/Export Service Error: The provided file doesn’t contain valid...
The Windows Azure Import/Export Service enables you to move large amount of data in or out of your Microsoft Azure storage accounts. It does this by enabling you to securely ship hard disk drives...
View ArticleUnable to setup AutoScale for Virtual Machines from the Azure Management Portal
You can set up AutoScale for your Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Web Sites from the Azure Management Portal. For Virtual Machines, autoscale can be configured for each availability set. You can...
View ArticleLearning Azure Service Management REST API through Powershell, and Azure CLI...
Azure Service Management REST API is used by all the public tools provided by Microsoft to manage your Azure Subscription – Portal, New Portal, Powershell, X-Plat CLI. You can use the same APIs to...
View ArticleHow to Monitor for Storage Account Throttling
For Azure Virtual Machines, we document storage limits of 500 IOPS per disk, and the guidance to not place more than 40 highly used VHDs in any single storage account since there is a 20,000 IOPS limit...
View ArticleStaying 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleUnderstanding 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...
View ArticleSetting 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...
View ArticleUnable 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...
View ArticleSQL 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,...
View ArticleRDP 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...
View ArticleVM 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...
View ArticleEnable 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...
View ArticleInstall 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTaking 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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