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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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Converting an existing Azure VM to a Reserved Instance

I have a long running VM on Azure. I recently read about Reserved Instances. Is it possible to convert/transfer/ move my existing VM to a reserved instance, or do I need to build a new VM from Scratch?
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Azure backup vs Snapshots

I'm an azure newbie and just trying to understand Azure better. My questions are specific to backing up Linux VMs in Azure. Please help me in understanding it better. I read that Azure backup takes snapshots and then uploads them to the vault. I'm…
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Can't see second azure sql database in SSMS object explorer

I have created a second database on my existing Azure SQL server. The first database works fine and I can see it using SSMS. I cannot see the second database in the object explorer. Autocomplete detects that it exists however. Any suggestions?
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How can I disable an Azure Redis Cache?

I have been experimenting with the Azure Redis Cache preview, and so far, so good. However, when I am not using it, I would like to disable it so that it is not consuming memory and not accessible. I would prefer not to delete it, as I do not wish…
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Can I use Office365 or Azure AD as master record for Active Directory?

We have a small business and currently don't have a need for a domain within our office. We have a basic network and a single server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with some file shares and 3rd party apps. We use Office 365 and have a Windows Azure…
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How to reset the admin password on VM on Windows Azure?

The virtual machines on Windows Azure allow to connect from RDP. But how can I reset the administrator password if the password has been lost?
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How can I share an Azure VM image with other subscriptions?

I need to create an Azure VM image that can be used by other people to create VMs in their own subscriptions. I've looked at the Azure documentation for VMs and images. I can find info on how to create images and about how to create VMs from an…
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Is it safe to run do-release-upgrade on a cloud VM?

I have a few Ubuntu VMs on Azure running Server 17.10 and I'm wondering if it's safe to upgrade them to 18.04.1 LTS using do-release-upgrade. If so, what precautions should I take?
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Migrate user accounts from Azure AD to on-premise AD?

My company uses Office 365 for Exchange, SharePoint, Lync etc. including the build-in user administration via Azure Active Directory. Now we want to switch to a local AD on a Windows Server. It shall sync changes to Azure, but the primary user and…
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SNI and wildcard SSL certificates on the same server with IIS

I'd like to host a website that should listen to subdomains (e.g. sub.domain.com) together with multiple websites that live just under a second-level domain (e.g. domain2.com, domain3.com) with IIS and with SSL. For the website with the subdomains I…
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Can an email server be set-up on an Azure VM?

I am considering the possibility of setting up a simple SMTP+IMAP email server for internal use on an extra small Azure VM. When I say internal use I don't mean "used by internal users", but for use as part of a larger system and to serve the main…
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Kubernetes v1.24.3 upgrade broke ingress-nginx

After upgrading our AKS kubernetes cluster to from v1.23.8 to v1.24.3 our ingress stopped working properly. No errors logged in events and the ingress-nginx pod does not report any errors on the console. Everything looks fine from within the…
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How can I monitor VM memory usage on Azure?

I have a few VMs set up as ADO (VSTS) build servers and thought I'd look into CPU and RAM usage over time to optimize the VM size. However I have had a hard time finding anything in Azure that allows me to investigate memory usage in VMs. The VMs do…
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Azure portal rename resources

Anyone have any idea on how i can rename azure resources? For example: I have a schedule job collection. I would like to rename the collection to get better organized. In fact, i also would like to rename Azure Resource Groups.
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Hibernate Windows Azure VM (IAAS)

I am a developer and use an Azure VM for my main development platform. To save the company some money I thought I might shut it down at weekends etc. but often I have many programs etc open that I'd like to keep going. I tried turning hibernation…
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