Questions tagged [azure-configuration]
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Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio csdef and cscfg do not match
I am completely losing my mind over this as I have a lot of work to do and I can't accomplish anything right now. Something happened and now every time I try to run our project in the Windows Azure emulator via Visual Studio it pops up the error as…

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Windows Azure, addressing instances and sticky sessions
For a proof of concept paper, I collected facts about Windows Azure. There are 2 topics remaining I could not find a definitive answer for.
Sticky sessions/sticky load balancing is not possible, am I right? Maybe there is a possibility with the…

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Getting the name and location of the deployment the webrole belongs to
I want to be able to get the name (named when the hosted service was created) and the location (North Europe, Asia Anywere, etc) of the deployment from within a running web role. I don't want to rely on a certificate and the subscription ID.…

Martin Ingvar Kofoed Jensen
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Webrole - Multiple hostHeader on a single Binding?
Is it possible in Azure to have multiple hostHeader on a single Binding or is it mandatory to create one Binding for each hostheader ?
Example :
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Number of instances needed for windows azure application
I'm fairly new to Windows Azure and want to host a survey application that will be filled out by appr. 30.000 users simultaniously.
The application consists of 1 .aspx page that will be sent to the client once, asks 25 questions and will give a…

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Setting Up And Using Web Deploy with Azure WebRole in Visual Studio (One-Click partial update)
I am using Windows Azure, and find it a lot difficult and useless make a new "Package" each time you make a small change, and want to test it on the Cloud. I heard about the opportunity to update the web roles without re-deploy the whole instance…

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Retrieving DNS URL for Azure (worker) role
My service is deployed to a few different environments (multiple dev environments as well as production). The service code needs to find out the URL of the current deployment at runtime.
Is there an easy way to retrieve the external-facing URL for…

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How to calculate or estimate cost per user on Azure Application (SaaS)?
I believe there is no magic formula to get to a precise number and probably it will depend on a series of different aspects of the application and users.
But here is the thing:
I'm building a software that will allow churches to manage their…

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Azure Powershell cmdlets for 1.7, June 2012: what's happened to Get-OperationStatus?
The new Powershell cmdlets (documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj152841) look lovely, but there's one that appears missing:
Get-OperationStatus -WaitToComplete
Without this my Azure operations (e.g.…

Jeremy McGee
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TCP communication on Windows Azure
Is it possible to create a service on Azure that handles a socket (ip:port) to get raw tcp data from clients and send some data back to them?
I am a little bit confused in this topic, somewhere I read it is possible, other pleces say it is…

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Where do I store my Azure role settings that are not to be stored as plain text?
Looks like the standard way of storing settings of Azure roles is under tag in the .cscfg file. Looks convenient, but the file is not encrypted in any way - it is an XML that is uploaded to the Azure portal as plain text and…

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Azure set hostHeader according to project configuration
hostHeader can be set in ServiceDefinition.csdef file as
How can I change this setting…

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Setting Values in Azure App Configuration from ARM Templates
You can create Azure KeyVault secrets from ARM templates. Can you also create settings in Azure App Configuration from ARM templates in the same way? I can't find any documentation for it if this feature exists.

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Azure - How to fix "Web application should only be accessible over HTTPS" warning?
In an Azure app service > security, the following warning is displayed:
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How to set the application for https only?
Already tried:
edit the web.config in app service editor (XML) to create a redirection rule, which seems to be working but…

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How to find an Azure instance role size programmatically?
Is there an API in azure to find the properties of a role (and an instance role)? I'm looking for the instance size, and it is not available in the Azure Management API.

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