Azure IaaS | List of supported Guest OSs
Hi !I know there is a list for supported OSs in PaaS (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee924680.aspx), but is there a list for IaaS with all the Windows and Linux OSs that are...
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We are having trouble with Merge Replication between an SQL instance in our datacenter (publisher) and and SQL VM in Azure Western Europe (subscriber). Â During initial snapshot synchronization, we're...
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We had 3 servers unexpected reboot at 9:24am EST on 9/13/13. The only thing in the Event Viewer was the entry for the unexpected reboot. Is there anyway to get root cause of the reboot since the SQL...
View ArticleAdvancing system clock for testing time based scenarios
Thanks for your reading.I need to create an environment which will allow for testing time based scenarios.Once of which is to advance the system clock for 30, 60, and 90 days.Is this possible on...
View ArticleAzure VM - Visual Studio 2010 Shell - Invalid License data Reinstall is...
I have a Azure VM Small instance  with Sever 2008 and SQL Express 2012 installed. I also have an IIS role configured and running.When I click on a file, that uses the VS shell, like a web.config or...
View Article2 Websites with SSL in 1 VM
We have 2 websites, and both use SSL.We also use MSSQL, so I created a VM with SQL, and created the 2 Web Sites in IIS, both of them work.However, I need to put SSL on both, and currently I can't...
View ArticleCan't connect to VM after size change
I have created a new Server 2012 Datacenter VM in our Azure, added it to the domain (have a separate VM as DC), installed Remote Desktop Services role and IIS role and everything was working well.Until...
View ArticleDatadisk coming up as unallocated
We had a VM with 7 data disk plus the OS disk attached to it. We had to kill off that VM and create a new one and attach the datadisks to the new VM. One of the disk/VHD is coming up as unallocated...
View ArticleAll my VM's = Stopped (Deallocated)
Hello,I was on my Trial Period (day three or something) and I got all my VM;s Stopped.When I go to my account to see my subscription, I got this:We are sorry, but we could not complete that...
View ArticleHow to fully automate creation and initial config of Ubuntu VM in Azure...
Hi,Can anyone share some pointers on what is the best way to automate (as in scripting - CMD, PowerShell, Node.JS, Python) the process to create and setup a Ubuntu VM in Azure Virtual Machines?The...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Windows 8.1 Visual studio from Surface 2
I am trying to access windows azure virtual machine (windows 8.1 enterprise with visual studio ultimate) from surface 2 and unable to access it. I am able to access vm from my windows 7 machine...
View ArticleSave-AzureVMImage does not work
I tried to clone my VM using AzureVMImage. First, I stopped it (from inside the VM OS). Then, I issued the following command:Save-AzureVMImage –ServiceName <servicename> –Name <name>...
View ArticleThe operation cannot be performed because the virtual machine is faulted.
Having issues creating a brand new A8 VM from gallery in Japan East, receiving the error "The operation cannot be performed because the virtual machine is faulted."I've reviewed the other questions...
View ArticleAvailability Sets not working
I followed this tutorial http://pipe2text.com/?page_id=1737 where it explains how to set it up. But my VMs don't list under the same availability set. I have trail account but I guess this should just...
View ArticleCannot install Web-Server on Azure VM
I'm trying to create a VM and install Web-Server role using powershell with this command"Install Web Server" Invoke-Command -ComputerName $vmInfo.vip -Port $vmInfo.port -Credential $localCredential...
View ArticleFailover on Application pool stop in IIS Server
I have configured two virtual machines with IIS and hosted a sample website in Windows Azure cloud environment. Now i need this site highly available(fail-over proof ) and scalable(able to maintain...
View ArticleMSP looking at offering hosted desktop via Azure
Good afternoon all, I run a small Managed Service Provider in the UK and we are looking at ways of offering our customer base a complete hosted desktop service, to remove their need for local...
View Articleunable to ping (request timedout) outside IPs
I have recently created a Azure Windows 2012 VM, website is setup successfully using IIS, however, I'm unable to ping (request timedout) outside IPs like external SMTP server and even general sites...
View ArticleRPD to VM stopped responding
Hi,I've read through a lot of threads with various RDP issues but nothing quite covered this scenario or, if it did, I didn't see an online response.I setup an A2 VM in Azure about 90 days ago and it's...
View ArticleThe file system of Linux VM suddenly became read-only
Hi everyone,I have a strange problem that there are many people faced few years ago. The filesystem of my Linux VM on azure suddenly became "read-only" so that I cannot even do any operations on it. I...
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