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Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing platform. Use this tag for programming questions concerning Azure. General server help can be obtained at Super User or Server Fault.

If you need help setting up Azure resources, ask those questions on Server Fault or Super User.

Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build web applications or services that run and store data in Microsoft data centres. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or 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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AADSTS70005: response_type 'id_token' is not enabled for the application

AADSTS70005: response_type 'id_token' is not enabled for the application I am getting above error even after setting "oauth2AllowImplicitFlow": true, in manifest.
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The configuration file 'appsettings.json' was not found and is not optional

The Azure error is: .Net Core: Application startup exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The configuration file 'appsettings.json' was not found and is not optional. So this is a bit vague. I can't seem to nail this down. I'm trying to…
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BuildTasks.Csc task could not be loaded from the assembly?

I feel guilty asking a question like this around here, but I'm at a loss and would appreciate some help. A proof-of-concept like web application was built on one PC and put up on a repo to download on another PC at a different location. There was…
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'Unable to Authenticate' when trying to connect to Azure DevOps Artifacts feed through npm; I get an E401 error

I'm trying to connect to a Azure DevOps Artifacts feed, but I keep getting an E401 error. I've tried on a different computer and it connected just fine. I've uninstalled, and reinstalled my Node.js, and I still got the error. Below is the error I…
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How do I change the name of an Azure Resource Group?

After the new model was implemented, all of my websites now belong to individual Resource Groups called "Default-Web-East" and all of my SQL databases belong to individual Resource Groups called "Default-SQL-East". This is confusing to say the…
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Connecting to an Azure website via FTP using Azure login credentials

What login credentials do I use to connect to the FTP site that is listed on the dashboard of my Azure? I tried using the same credentials I use to log into Azure, but this failed.
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Error when connect database continuously

When I am querying from database in continuous looping, after some time I get an error : An exception has been raised that is likely due to a transient failure. If you are connecting to a SQL Azure database consider using…
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Set Content-type of media files stored on Blob

We have a website hosted on Azure. It is media based, and we are using JWPlayer to playback media with HTTP pseudostreaming. The media files are stored on blob in 3 formats - mp4, ogg, webm. The issue is the content type of media files is set as…
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Is it better to have many small Azure storage blob containers (each with some blobs) or one really large container with tons of blobs?

So the scenario is the following: I have a multiple instances of a web service that writes a blob of data to Azure Storage. I need to be able to group blobs into a container (or a virtual directory) depending on when it was received. Once in a while…
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Difference between new and classic storage accounts in Azure

Azure has Storage accounts and Storage accounts (classic) in the Azure Portal. What are the differences between them? Is there any reason to migrate from a classic storage account to a new storage account?
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Azure SQL Database "DTU percentage" metric

With the new Azure SQL Database tier structure, it seems important to monitor your database "DTU" usage to know whether to upgrade or downgrade to another tier. When reading Azure SQL Database Service Tiers and Performance Levels, it only talks…
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How do I create a new user in a SQL Azure database?

I am trying to use the following template: -- ================================================= -- Create User as DBO template for SQL Azure Database -- ================================================= -- For login
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How to switch accounts via VS Code Azure Account Extension

I've signed into one of my Azure accounts with Azure Account Extension via VS Code. I didn't find any button to sign out or switch accounts. How do I sign out or switch accounts?
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What is going wrong with web deployment from Visual Studio and App service?

Suddenly Web Deployment started failing. Could not find file 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\App_Offline.htm'. I stopped the service, but deployment still fails. When I tried to delete any file from wwwroot in Kudu PowerShell UI I get error "404 file not…
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?

I am asking this in very general sense. Both from cloud provider and cloud consumer's perspective. Also the question is not for any specific kind of application (in fact the intention is to know which type of applications/domains can fit into which…
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