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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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Benchmarking Azure's Premium Storage P30 Disks

We're running performance tests on two new Standard DS13 (8 Core, 56 GB) VMs (both using the latest/default Windows 2012 R2 image) backed by Premium Storage and have hit a wall with step 1 in testing the local SSD performance. We understand 25% of…
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Should I encrypt OS disk with BitLocker for HIPAA compliance

I am looking into hosting a HIPAA compliant web application on Azure VM's. For the database, right now I am leaning towards using a VM with SQL 2014 Standard Edition. Since TDE is not available with Standard Edition, I am going to just use…
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How to turn off Windows Azure's "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message?

Is there any setting/configuration item to avoid Windows Azure from printing that error on the screen or detecting it? I've put a screenshot below that shows the message when you RDP into the web role. My web role runs on Windows Azure Guest OS 1.17…
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Azure firewall vs Azure network security group

I've been trying to understand the difference between a Azure firewall (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-firewall/) and the features offered by NSGs/network security groups…
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Adding VM's to Domain

I am trying to configure SP farm, in Azure, following steps mention in this article - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt723354(v=office.16).aspx But after creating Sql VM('sqlVM' ), I am not able to add this to the AD domain. Below…
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How to create a swap for Azure Ubuntu VM?

I have read quite a few posts on this, but I am still unsure about the correct approach, assuming: I have a default Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM created by and running on Azure, which doesn't come with a swap I would like to create a swap using existing VM…
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Azure closing idle network connections

I'm running a proprietary client/server application on a single instance windows server 2k8R2 azure VM. The client is very dependent on a connection with the server. However if I spend a couple of minutes without any activity, something on the…
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Slow disk performance on Azure Virtual Machine

Okay, so first of all, allow me to say that I'm not an operations person, but a developer. So I'm going into a bit of unknown land here, so please bear with me. I would like to use a Azure Virtual Machine for extracting a 50 GB XML file from a 1.9…
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Join Azure VM to Azure AD

Using Microsoft Azure I have a default Active Directory domain (apparently) and I can create VMs. To my surprise, such VMs are not joined to the AD domain automatically and domain users can't log into it. Is it possible to join these Azure VMs to…
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issue when trying migration via Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

I want to migrate my Esxi VM from on promise to Azure cloud. I've found solution which provides it to me. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, provides migrating to Azure Cloud. During migration procedure application wants " Subsciption ID and…
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Using Azure AD to push Group Policy settings

I am trying to use Azure Active Directory instead of using a traditional domain controller. I would like to use Azure AD to authenticate users and to push GPO settings, such as folder redirection, drive mappings and Windows 10 privacy settings. I…
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Azure Powershell - Change Directory

When I login to the new Azure Portal I see a drop-down at the top right that lets me select a "Directory" from a list of 2. When I login to azure using powershell cmdlet "Login-AzureRmAccount" I am connected to the wrong directory. How can I change…
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Connect Azure AppService web app to Azure Virtual Machine through private network. Possible?

I'm trying to figure out a way to connect my web app running in Azure AppServices to an Azure Virtual Machine that's hosting a database server. I can see that the Azure VM has both a public and private IP. I'm trying to get the AppService instance…
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Why do you need the awverify CNAME record for Azure?

See i.e.: How to set up CNAME to point to Azure or the text within the azure portal: Why is this necessary in the first place? Why does pointing the domain name through an A record not prove that I am the owner of the domain? I mean.. how can you…
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Gracefully take a server out of Azure Load Balancer (drain stop)

We have an application deployed to Azure IaaS VMs, served by IIS. In order to install updates, we need to take each machine out of the load balancer, one by one. Before moving to Azure, we were using Microsoft NLB which has the function to DRAIN…
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