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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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sql azure vs azure VM with SQLServer Express

Beside being cheaper is there any problem/advantages to use SQL Azure vs to use a Virtual Machine with SQL Express? We are looking to setup a SQL server for more than 50 websites, do you have any recommendations? We currently have SQL Express on a…
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SSH freezes when idle for a time

Connecting from Ubuntu Desktop x64 14.04's ssh client to an Ubuntu Server 14.04 x64 SSH server on Microsoft Azure. Unfortunately when it is connected and left idle for a time; the connection freezes but doesn't disconnect. I have tried setting these…
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How do I backup a windows azure virtual machine?

How do I backup a windows azure virtual machine? I would like to schedule daily backups of system state that could be restored if needed. Data can be backed via Azure Backup, but not system it seems.
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Use of Gateway Subnet on Azure

I'm trying to create a Point-to-Site(P2S) VPN on Microsoft Azure and in order to do so I created a VNet, created a couple of subnets under the VNAT and then I read that I need to create a "Gateway Subnet" to be able to attach a network gateway to my…
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Configure Basic Authentication on Azure's App Service

For different reasons I'm using Azure's App Service to serve static files. I would like to secure this access by Http Basic Authentication which is enough for my purposes. How can I do that? I tried uploading .htpasswd but it does not seem to…
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SSL certificate and Azure classic load balancer

I have 2 VMs behind a load balancer on Azure. I created a new SSL certificate via Let's Encrypt on one of the VMs using the domain that is assigned to the load balancer. When I connect to that VM directly via IP I see the certificate loaded, but I'm…
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Azure Site Recovery unplanned failover

I have managed to create a DR of a couple virtual machines to Azure. I am using Azure site recovery and Azure resource manager, and I followed this manual about how to do this…
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Disk Queue length of 30 in Azure App Service, that can't be right

We are having a battle with the Microsoft Azure support team. I hope the Serverfault community can chime in as the support team has messed us about before. Here is what is happening. As part of a larger SaaS service that we host on Azure, we have a…
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AD Replica DC Promotion Stall

I recently inherited infrastructure duties for a small startup I am working with. My traditional role has been development, so bear with me... I was hoping to start off on the right foot, and get Active Directory up and running in Azure. I have…
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Windows Server 2012 - Accessing RDS via web access from external address

I have a very strange issue. I'm setting up an RDS server in azure for a proof of concept. I've found that if I use the web access using the external URL provided by azure (xxxx.cloudapp.net/RDWeb), I can log in fine, even get the little popup in…
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How to get what IP Address Ranges used by Visual Studio Online Load Testing Agents?

I need to setup IP Whitelisting in an environment that I need to run some Visual Studio Online Load Tests on. I was able to find some documentation as to what IP Addresses Visual Studio Online supposedly uses, but it doesn't seem to be…
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Rename virtual network on Azure

Is there a way to rename an existing virtual network on Azure? Via powershell, for instance. I see no options in the portal UI, and I've already setup a sizeable deployment within the existing network.
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Logging in with local admin account after joining domain

I was under the impression that once you joined a domain that the local admin account would be disabled. I did the following in Azure: Created Windows Server 2012 R2 instance and promoted to domain controller. Created SQL Server 2012 SP1 on Windows…
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Filezilla/Puttygen doesn't recognize private key file

I have generated a key for an Ubuntu Virtual Machine running on Azure Cloud Services http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/how-to-guides/ssh-into-linux/ openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout myPrivateKey.key -out …
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Creating Virtual Network Azure - The Gateway was not created

It's been sitting at "THE GATEWAY WAS NOT CREATED." for hours after creating a Virtual Network in Azure. Is this normal? What should I do? We previously created a network in the wrong DC, it didn't seem to be so slow then.
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