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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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How to wait for network in a batch script when booting on Windows Server?

I'm executing a batch file with TaskScheduler "At system startup" on a Windows Server 2012 in Azure, and I observed that there's no network for 20-60 seconds after the start of the batch. Currently I added a constant wait with ping, and it works…
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Trim Azure VHD size in Windows 2008

I have an azure virtual machine and due to a broken backup script, it has previously used the entire 127GB of space. My virtual machine is now only using 20GB however I'm still being charged for the full 127GB. I know I need to trim the disk and in…
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Azure public/private dns resolution

Does anybody know if Azure has the same capability as AWS to resolve an external DNS hostname to the public IP address of the instance outside the network of the instance, and to the private IP address of the instance from within the network of the…
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Microsoft Multi-factor Authentication not working with RDP

I am installing a new remote access server, where I need multi-factor authentication for RDP access (=a call back to the user's cell phone after they enter their credentials). The problem is that the call back is not happening - they just get right…
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How to stop time synchronization on an Azure VM

I'm trying to simulate a different date/time on an Azure VM but the time keeps resetting itself to the current date/time. Is there a way to force the server to stay at a specific date/time until I manually change it back? I have disabled the…
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Can I add a second network adapter to my Azure VM?

I have Multiple VM's on Windows Azure. Default, they come with 1 network adapter and you can only assign 1 virtual network (Availability Set) My question is : possible to connect 1 VM to more then 1 virtual network (By adding a second network…
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Azure web site not recognizing perfectly valid CNAME

I'm trying to add a custom domain to an Azure Web Site in standard mode. I've added the following DNS records: @ IN A 168.62.48.183 www IN CNAME ua-roadtosochi.azurewebsites.net. awverify …
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problems configuring Filezilla ftp server on windows azure virtual machine

Recently I've been attempting to setup a filezilla server on one of azure virtual machines and cannot seem to get it fully running. I am currently able to get an initial connection, however subsequent data connections (i.e. for listing remote…
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Azure Storage limitations

Are there any limitations to the amount of files that can be stored in Azure Storage? I am concerned about storing all uploads in a single directory and wondering if they should be sharded somehow into a collection of directories. I've searched the…
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Windows Server 2012 - Azure Online Backup Status?

What is the current status of Windows Server 2012 Online Backup. All of the documentation provides a start point of Windows Azure Online Backup and tells you to download a software agent.. But at this point (and for the past month), it 404's.
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Azure VM : Connection refused by host

I recently stopped a subscription with 14 VMs in it and restarted it a few days later. Now all my VMs are working just fine at the exception of 6 used for MongoDB. They respond to ping and so they show as online in the azure dashboard but they do…
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How to upload own OS ISO on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform?

I want to install Custom Linux Distro like Mint/Backtrack/many more. I am unable to find any option that does it. I am looking forward for Easy and Detailed guide on this matter. Assuming i don't know much about Hyper V or any type of…
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Detach Disk from deleted virtual machine

I had an Virtual Machine running in Azure for a couple of weeks and suddenly it stopped responding. I shut it down and tried to restart it but that failed saying the VM faulted. I then deleted the VM which leaves the VHD file intact on my storage…
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How to restart A Sql Azure Instance?

How can I restart my SQL Azure Server ? Is this possible ?
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Why do caught exceptions cause IIS or even entire Windows Azure server to fail?

I have a Windows Azure applicaion (web-role) which I'm having serious problems with. If there are problems with one of my databases which the application connects to (in this case, SQL Azure transient errors) many exceptions are thrown in my…
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