Questions tagged [azure]

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 avoid Azure Subscription suspension?

Two weeks ago, all our Azure production systems went down, and we received an e-mail from them saying We’ve disabled your Azure subscription To protect the security and privacy of your account, we perform routine audits of all Azure…
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Change language of web interface of Microsoft Azure Account

I managed to change the UI language of the Azure Portal, but the Microsoft Azure Account Site did not change accordingly. I cannot find an option to change it directly there. Have I overlooked something?
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Does Azure support UCC/SAN SSL Certificates?

I have an Azure Web App that has 15 domain names associated with (i.e. all domain names map to the same application). I need to provide SSL for all 15 domains, pointing to the same Web App. My observations so far: Conventional SSL binding requires…
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Windows Server virtual disk cache settings

In Windows under Azure or Hyper-V, the Disk Policy write cache settings for a virtual disk will always appear to be enabled from the server configuration, regardless of the actual status of write cache settings on the underlying disk system.…
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Exporting on-prem SQL Server to Azure SQL using BAPAC fails because of users with Windows Auth

I have an on-prem SQL Server 2014 database - the schema itself is fine and fully Azure SQL compatible. However, it has a USER object that is bound to a Server LOGIN which is configured to use Windows Authentication (so passwords aren't stored in…
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How can I enable Ping on an Azure Linux VM

How can I enable Ping on an Azure Linux VM, Centos 6.6 - I know we can enable this on a Windows VM, but how to do this for a Linux VM? Thanks.
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Azure VM change OS Disk

I've create an Azure VM in RM and have deleted the VM and Components expect the OSDisk in an Premium Storage Account (Blobs). Now i wouldd like to create an new VM and attach the OS Disk to the new VM. I've tried to use the Set-AzureRmVmOsDisk, to…
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What is a Windows Azure Compute Hour?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? According to pricing details on the Microsoft Windows Azure website, compute hours cost 12 cents each, but what are they?
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Outbound Packets Dropping / Timeouts - Only with Azure

I have an issue with packets dropping to a third party data center in Florida, USA. The issue only occurs on Azure Virtual Machines, no matter which data center the VM is in. I've done the same tests simultaneously from other non-Azure networks,…
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Is it safe to store a swap-file on the Temporary Disk on Azure?

I've got a virtual Linux server running on Microsoft Azure. The machine has a disk /dev/sdb1 mounted to /mnt. This folder contains a file DATALOSS_WARNING_README.txt with the following content: WARNING: THIS IS A TEMPORARY DISK. Any data stored on…
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Windows Azure: Reinstalling Linux without recreating VM

I have installed things on my Linux VM on Windows Azure and now I need a clean server again, is there any chance of easy reinstall (for clean Linux again) rather than having to create the VM, cloud and endpoints all over again?
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How to allow more than two simultanous sessions on Azure

One of our servers is on Azure and we are remotely connecting to it. Unfortunately Azure allows only two users to be logged in at the same time. When the third user tries to log in, he is given the option to disconnect one of the already logged in…
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Migrating resources between different Azure subscriptions

I have a few questions for the Azure gurus out there. I work for a software development house and I have been asked with coming up with our Azure infrastructure. The idea I had is to set up three Pay-As-You-Go subcriptions for the following…
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How do I get notified on a failed deployment to azure?

I have a project hosted in Github that is being continuously deployed to Azure whenever a developer checks in any code. (this deployment is for a dev server, not prod). In the case of a failed deployment, how can I get the failure log emailed to me…
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Do Azure VMs have disk I/O limits?

We have a SQL server hosted on an Azure VM. One of our applications is very read\write intensive on the database and we're seeing poor disk performance. Disk queue lengths of 10 or greater. I've been trying to find a way to increase disk…
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