I have created an Azure VM for the purpose of testing a new installation process for my software. The VM is using Windows 10 Preview.
Yesterday I uploaded an ISO file which contained our software plus installers for SQL Server Express (various editions). (About 1.8 gb)
I ran our custom setup program which installs SQL express, restores a new user database, adds firewall exceptions etc. etc.
This morning I cannot RDP into that VM. The connection is made, but when I attempt to login, I am simply returned to the Windows Security Dialog, with the message "Your credentials did not work..."
I know I am typing the password correctly, I have double checked things like typos in the user name and password, Caps Lock is not on ;-) and so on.
This happened to a VM I had set up last week too, after a similar test and after attempting various options including resetting credentials using Powershell (found here) I accepted that I must have forgotten the password or done something wrong, so I started again.
Now the same things has happened I am wondering if that level of activity (uploading 1.8gb then running a setup which retrieved and installed .Net runtime 3.5) on an Azure VM that runs under an MSDN Premium subscription Azure account, caused the user account to be locked out for a period of time - have I hit some limit of uploads to that machine or activity or some other limit I'm not aware of?