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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Azure Virtual Machine disaster recovery

I do not understand how to properly handle disaster recovery (ex: my Azure Datacenter unavailable) with Virtual Machines. For example, SqlAzure makes it pretty simple: with the Geo-Restore feature, you can restore your database to your "secondary"…
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Migrating AD Lightweight Directory Services (LDS) or ADAM data to Azure Active Directory (WAAD)

We currently have an ADAM instance that we authenticate our ASP.NET web users against. We have a requirement to replace this instance with an Azure Active Directory instance instead with a new schema design. If required I am happy to migrate the…
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How to execute unicode .sql file on azure sql via sqlcmd?

I have an Azure blog created via "Brandoo WordPress" template (wordpress website and azure sql server). All works fine, but if I populate wordpress tables from .sql file with unicode characters via sqlcmd command I see "?" on website instead of…
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What does "Assigned" mean in the Azure AD Application user list?

Within the Azure portal, inside an Active Tenant I have an application with users listed, of which are created in the tenant. What does the term Assigned mean? I incorrectly assumed that it meant the user existed in the Azure tenant, but could not…
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"User with an existing Microsoft account" cannot access app using Azure AD SSO

Yesterday I followed Vittorio Bertocci's tutorial "WS-Federation in Microsoft OWIN Components – a quick start" to set up a test application using Azure AD authentication. This is my first use of Azure AD (I work alone so don't use AD, period). I…
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Intermittent mysql database connection lost

i recently installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on Azure VM; and installed MYSQL Server version: 5.6.19-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu) VM hardware is D-Series (1 core, 3.5 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD) My applications on another VM sometimes have delayed connection…
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Is it possible to migrate Azure VM image from one Subscription to another Subscription?

I recently captured one azure vm image in one storage account, and planning to migrate this image to another storage account under a different subscription. I used PowerShell Script to run this task, but I came across with this problem: The storage…
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How to attach SSD to Azure VM and check its type?

I created one VM with 100G SSD, but it's only D rive, which is the temporary disk. I want to attach another SSD drive to the VM, but I'm not sure its type. Is is possible to do this? Thank You
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Can I execute Azure Automation Runbook on PowerShell?

Actually I want to run these runbooks by myself, not relying on Automation Part. In this case, I can choose when to deploy them, and also it is flexible for me to choose variables. It would be better to have some simple tutorials for me. Any Help…
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Windows Azure Automation problems about job action 'Activate'

I am testing a runbook on Automation, but it was suspended. The details show : The job action 'Activate' cannot be run, because the process stopped unexpectedly. The job action was attempted 3 times. I want to know how to solve this problem. Thank…
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PTR for Linux VM on Azure

I have a Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine running on Azure and this machine runs a website that sends email to registered users. This emails are greylisted on some mailning services. After some research, i realized that most probable cause is missing…
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Routing Help Needed - Site to Site VPN

I have successfully established an IPsec Site-to-Site VPN tunnel between our On-Prem network (Gateway, Cisco RV220W) and Azure. However I am hitting a knowledge gap with regards to setting up the routing to allow me to actually send traffic between…
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User Account Not Listed in Gateway / or expecting IP address?

I’m trying to connect to my first VM that I've created on Azure. These are the steps I went through: When trying to connect I get this screen: It correctly lists the remote computer address as mymachine1231.cloudapp.net but for some reason the…
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Azure Traffic Manager TTL - what does it mean for downtime

The default TTL on Azure Traffic Manager is 5 minutes by default. Does this mean that when a server (endpoint) goes down then people won't get routed to a working server for up to 5 mins?
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How do I detach a disk from an Azure VM so I can re-attach it to another?

I have an Azure VM with a data disk attached and mounted in a folder in c:\ - the VM is bricked after uninstalling .NET 4.5 (don't do that on 2012 R2). I have created a new VM. Now how do I detach my data disk and reattach it to the new VM? The…
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