Questions tagged [azure]

Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

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Is there a way to remove my account from an Azure Active Directory?

A while ago I was added to an Azure Active Directory that was managed by someone else, but I no longer have access to any of the subscriptions or resources that belong to the AAD. Is there any way that I can remove myself from this AAD so that it no…
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Is it compulsory to pick only a region pair as Azure DR region?

Certain Azure VM types (like some in G & M series that I require) are not available in the Azure region pair (US East, US West). Will there be any constraints on functionality if I choose an Azure region other than the Azure region pair (say, US…
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How to use Azure Backup to backup files on on-premises Linux machine

Is it possible to backup individual files (i.e. database backups) from the disk of an on-premise Linux (CentOS) server to the Azure Recovery Services vault? Do I need the Recovery Services agent and is that available for Linux? Or is there a smarter…
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Azure RM VM - The VM agent is either unavailable, or not installed, which may prevent VMAccess from running

I have created a new Azure RM VM in a new resource group.This resource group also contains a new storage account, into which I have copied a VHD for the new VM. This VHD is a copy of one that works well on a different VM in a different resource…
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how do i migrate Azure storage account from classic to ARM

i have created a storage account and have a few VM's and blobs. It is supposed to be a classic account. i want to migrate or convert the storage account to ARM or new version. what is the process to do so? i have tried to move the contents of one…
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Azure App Service on Linux or Windows

I want to run a Node.js API on an Azure App Service. I have the options of Azure App Service on Linux or Windows. What are the arguments for choosing one over the other?
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How to mount an Azure File Share on macOS Sierra?

I want to mount my File Share to a folder on my MBP called /Users/me/mount-folder. I've read the Windows documentation as well as the Linux documentation. I've been…
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Use Azure Public IP With On Prem VM

We have an on prem RRAS server that connects to an Azure Virtual Network that allows us to have an On Prem/Azure hybrid. My query is, if i was to provision a public IP address in azure, what would be the best way to route it to one of our on prem…
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Externally visible Kubernetes Service on Azure

I am deploying an ELK stack on a Kubernetes(v1.4.5) cluster on Azure. This is the configuration that creates the Kibana Service and Deployment. # deployment.yml --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: logging --- # elasticsearch…
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Windows Azure - Routing Point-2-Site - Communication: Local PC --> Azure VM

I am trying for hour now to communicate between two computer. Local PC AzureVM They are both connected via Point-2-Site VPN. The VPN itself works like a charme and isn´t hard to handle. But I don´t get the communication to work. The local…
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Geo-blocking in Azure

Is there any functionality available in azure out of the box to block access to a website or server from specific countries? In a larger project that I'm involved with, we have an Imperva WAF and Palo Alto firewall that provide geo-blocking…
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Deduplication and cost savings on IaaS object stores (S3/Azure Blobs)

Do any of the commercial IaaS object stores (S3, Azure Blobs etc.) avoid charging multiple times for storing duplicate data (identical files, or parts of files)? For instance, we have a 15 TB dataset of tweets and one of our team wants to make a…
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Azure App Service - Outbound IP changed

I have an App Service (currently under development so no heavy traffic) on Azure. It connects to a Google Cloud DB. Yesterday for no apparent reason, the Outbound IP addresses of the App Service all changed causing the connection between Azure and…
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How to move VM to a new Virtual Network in Azure Portal

Can someone let me know how to move a VM from one Virtual Network to another. In the image, I would like to move the VM webtestnic-backend-.... from Virtual network 'webtestvnet-arrmb7u3eu35o to my VirtualNetork. azure Can you let me know how to do…
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Azure VM Windows Data Disk - How do I know if it's HDD or SSD?

I'm on a Windows VM, and, for example, have 3 data disks attached, each 100GB. I know 2 of them are HDD and one SSD. Is there any more-or-less easy way of identifying which disk is SSD and which is HDD from within the VM?
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