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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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Variable Network Device Alias and PowerShell DSC

I have a set of Azure Resource Manager and DSC scripts that I use to deploy a new VM to Azure and then make it a domain controller for a new domain, these have worked fine for some time, but it's now failing the DSC part. I believe the issue is down…
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Ping flood from Azure VM to On-Premise Infrastructure

I have deployed a number of Azure subscriptions now with site to site VPN connectivity back to on-premise networks. In one scenario with a client, they have reported that on a regular basis ICMP traffic for PING, is regularly coming from a source VM…
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Azure virtual machine "checkpoints"

In an on-premise system I can take snapshots\checkpoints of a VM. Is there anything analogous to this in Azure? Thanks
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), Azure and HTTP Strict Transport Security IIS Module

Question: How do you properly install and configure HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in an Azure website? Apparently for IIS the method to use is to install this module: http://hstsiis.codeplex.com/ The problem is that, according to the…
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Cannot connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

I want to connect to Office 365 through powershell, referring to the tutorials a very simple task. But apparently not for me. I think I missed a simple but important trivia. Some info: license is Office 365 Buisness Essential Azure AD is…
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Azure public endpoint SSL termination

In Azure, is there any way to set up an HTTPS endpoint directly on the public VIP, as opposed to joining each VM to a load balanced set, so that I can associate this endpoint with the SSL certificate and forward decrypted traffic to the VM's? I know…
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Azure, Log4Net log file, FTP transfer, Response: 550

I have an ASP.NET MVC website on Azure using log4net file appender. I cannot download the log files with FileZilla because of the following error: Response: 550 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. …
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Azure backup folder exclusion

I tried to find a way to do it, but I am not sure if it's possible or not. Using Recovery services on Azure, I installed the Microsoft Azure Backup Agent on an IIS server. We have multiple websites hosted and each website use ELMAH for logging. We…
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Sudden SQL Azure performance issues

I'm using New Relic to monitor one of my sites, and about every two weeks my Apdex drops through the floor. This appears to be down to SQL Azure. What I know: Requests Per Minute are the same as they are every working day at that particular time.…
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Failure in PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION(Wincache) with Wordpress, Microsoft Azure and IIS

I'm starting experience very annoying downtimes with my Wordpress installation hosted in a shared environment in Microsoft Azure PAAS, where PHP is executed under IIS. First of all I tried to optimize plugins and memory consumptions, which is always…
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How to enable stateless session resumption cache behind load balancer?

I scanned my servers' SSL/TLS configuration using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/, and it reported Session resumption (caching) No (IDs assigned but not accepted) I'm using 2 instances of Azure web roles behind a round-robin load balancer. I…
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How to avoid the prompt “Do you want to find PCs, devices, and content”?

When a Windows Server (2012 or -R2) comes back from Stopped+Deallocated state in Azure, the “Do you want to find PCs, devices, and content on this network, and automatically connect to devices like printers and TVs?” question often appears: The…
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how do you stop and deallocate a windows azure virtual machine

If I shutdown a virtual machine in azure, it shows it's status as 'stopped'. But I am still getting billed for cores until I can get the machine into a 'stopped (deallocated)' state. How do I get the machine to go from 'stopped' to 'stopped…
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Azure Site-to-Site VPN with a Linux based router to bridge the VPN ports to a RRAS server while keeping NAT for other traffic

I am trying to get an Azure Site-to-Site VPN up and running using RRAS but require help configuring my router's iptables to bridge the VPN ports and protocols to the RRAS server without using NAT while still allowing NAT to be used for all other…
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How to move Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure with minimal impact?

My company is in the process of transitioning some of its on-premises services to the Microsoft cloud; some of them are being replaced altogether by hosted services (Exchange, SharePoint); some other are custom applications running on local servers,…
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