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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Using Application Initialization with Azure is still proving painfully slow

My assumption was that if I turned on IIS8 Application Warmup in Azure, that all of my sites would be fairly instant on load, this is not the case. So, basically, I've turned on preloadEnabled and set the startMode to AlwaysRunning, using: public…
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Setting up DNS within an Azure Virtual Network

I have a few Cloud Services, and a VM running Redis in Azure. From what I understand I need to create a Virtual Network so the cloud services can communicate to Redis on the VM. That was easy. Now what I would like to do is set up DNS so I don't…
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Azure Virtual Machines - what fault tolerance do they provide?

We are thinking about moving our virtual machines (Hyper-V VHDs) to Windows Azure but I haven't found much about what kind of fault tolerance that infrastructure provides. When I run VHD in Azure, I've got two questions: Is my VHD and all the data…
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Catastrophic Azure App Service outage after an automatic Azure platform upgrade

A relatively simple Azure App Service (currently .net 4.6.2, against Azure SQL) has been running for over 18 months. It is rock solid. I rarely think about this site and have not released an update for several months. I wake this morning to find…
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Error creating Letsencrypt certificate from Azure web site extension

Our web app running on Azure has the Azure Let's Encrypt 0.9.6 extension installed. Launching the extension (https://********-website-stage.scm.azurewebsites.net/letsencrypt/) is no problem and we get to fill the form with the values needed to…
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In Azure Sandbox, can't create a WordPress site

I am learning Azure and as learning exercise I need to create a WordPress website. I use this Microsoft learning documentation. I activated the sandbox, but when it comes to create a website resource, I obtain an error: Resource…
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Specifying columns in Azure Log Analytics query

In the Azure Kusto query system, I can add columns by manually typing them in using project : AzureDiagnostics | project TimeGenerated, httpMethod_s or by selecting them with the "columns" button: But when I select the columns I want visually, the…
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What if I store 10TB on azure servers and then keep the vm powered off?

I want to know should I pay for storage on azure even if I don't use it? for example if I store 10TB on an azure VM and then keep that VM powered off, Will Microsoft charge me for that 10TB data? Or it just charges us for powered on VMs?
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Storage account name already exists

When I attempt to run the code at the bottom I get the following error (no matter what I name the storage account) currently its named "functions" but I could call it "bannanas" and it would output the same error? ERROR I ENCOUNTER :( "1 error(s)…
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cURL and Azure BLOB with SAS - HTTP header that's mandatory for this request is not specified

I've reviewed the information at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/put-blob https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/service-sas-examples As far as I can tell I am complying becuase I am posting the SAS in…
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How do I connect to an Azure SQL Server via an Azure VPN Gateway?

I have setup an Azure SQL Server with an Elastic Pool into which I have created a Test database. I have also setup an Azure Virtual Network and a Point-to-Site VPN. The Virtual Network has 2 subnets - one for the GatewaySubnet and another into which…
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Problems with Azure AD connect custom install

I badly need your clever advice! The thing is I am trying to extend on-premises active directory to Azure. And one of my coworkers mentioned that if it’s over 100,000 items then you’ll want to install to full SQL server and installer really is not…
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The specified module 'MSOnline' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory

For one of my applications I have a Windows service (on Windows Server 2012 R2 x64) which role is to execute many jobs on differents schedules and triggers. One of them is to reset a user password on Office 365. The server on which the service runs…
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Azure Backup Server error: ID 4501

I'm trying to set up a backup Windows VMs to Azure using Azure Backup. I have successfully installed Azure Backup Server to Windows Server 2016 VM and configure VMware vSphere VMs backup using the…
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Test port communication from azure website

My Azure Website has trouble connecting to a distant system. I cannot access the distant system so my only option would be to TELNET on an IP and port from my azure hosting environment. The issue is can't access this environment as it's directly…
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