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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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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:...
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Azure 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...
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Unable 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...
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Learning 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...
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How 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...
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Configuring Azure Virtual Machines for Optimal Storage Performance
In support, one of the most common questions we get is: How do I achieve the best disk performance for Azure virtual machines?Platform Planning:In the standard tier of virtual machine in Azure, the...
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Recover Azure VM by attaching OS disk to another Azure VM
If you are unable to connect to an Azure VM with RDP or SSH even after restarting and resizing the VM you can use the following steps to make it accessible again.Scripted Recovery StepsThe recovery...
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Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs
[Update 12/31/2014] We have made a configuration update today to address the activation failures. If you are still unable to activate your VM even after attempting the steps below, please let us know...
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Unable to connect to multinic Linux VM
When creating an Azure VM with multiple NICs and subnets, the guest's default gateway is not automatically set. This may cause loss of SSH connectivity as the default gateway is not assigned to the NIC...
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Traffic Manager and Azure SLB - Better Together!
This post was contributed by Pedro PerezCan Traffic Manager coexist with Azure Load Balancer? And how do we keep session affinity with them? Yes they can coexist, and in fact it is a good idea to use...
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Keeping Azure PowerShell Current
I have been supporting Azure for 7 years now and one of the constants is the rapid pace of change of the services offered. This means that not only do you have to continually stay abreast of the most...
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What is the IP address 168.63.129.16?
The IP address 168.63.129.16 is a virtual public IP address that is used to facilitate a communication channel to internal platform resources for the bring-your-own IP Virtual Network scenario....
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Azure DNS Server Redundancy
Customers may observe that their PaaS role instances and IaaS virtual machines are only issued one DNS server IP address by DHCP. This does not mean that name resolution in Azure has a single point of...
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Use Azure custom routes to enable KMS activation with forced tunneling
Previously, if customers enabled forced tunneling on their subnets, OS activations prior to Windows Server 2012 R2 would fail as they could not connect to the Azure KMS server from their cloud service...
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Windows Server Failover Cluster on Azure IAAS VM – Part 1 (Storage)
Hello, cluster fans. This is Mario Liu. I’m the Support Escalation Engineer in Windows High Availability team in Microsoft CSS Americas. I have a good news for you that starting in April, 2015,...
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