VM Maintenance Frequency
Just received an upcoming maintenance notification. Only been with Azure for 2 months: How many times / per year have others experienced this?Thanks.
View ArticleUpcoming maintenance will affect deployments of Microsoft Azure Virtual...
As an annoucement, we have planned maintenance coming on 8/1. Please find details on this announcement:...
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In starting loop
Hi. After a virtual machine restart, it has been stuck in the "Starting.." state for more than 18 hours.TIA.
View Articleazure.archive.ubuntu.com randomly return 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Hi,while trying to install some packages via apt-get in a Windows Azure Ubuntu 12.04 VM, I am getting sporadic error while fetching packages, e.g.:Failed to fetch...
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A chance for YOU to play for the Azure team, in the TechNet Guru World Cup!
The World Cup is here again!Not balls... brains!And YOU have been selected to play on our team!Yes forum reader, step up and take a shot!Slam some techie tips in the back of our nets!No dribbling...
View ArticleManage Domains on VM's
A few weeks ago I set up a vm product. I then added a small handful of domains by clicking on the 'Manage Domains' button in the vm instance, added IIS, changed my A records to point to the public vm...
View Articleunable to use sudo Linux with CentOS
Hi,I have requirement of creating the Linux vm with CentOS-OpenLogic in azure and i have to install some start up programs while provisioning, through PowerShell.I'm using SSH-Sessions module to...
View ArticleSerious disk errors on virtual machines
Hi,We have experienced a lot of disk errors on a few of our Azure virtual machines. This weekend it happened again. In the event log we find that the first event is written by ESENT:"svchost (1300) A...
View ArticleRemoving VHD Disk fails in PowerShell after Removing a VM
I'm trying to script the removal of my Azure VM's and their associated Data Disk (VHD). I have the following PowerShell script:...# Remove both the VM and then the Data Disk VHD so it's not...
View ArticleMust Reactivate Office Professional 2013 After Restarting VM
Every time I restart my VM after shutting it down, when I open Word, the Microsoft Office Activation Wizard opens, with a message that Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 detected changes to the...
View ArticleFor upcoming August maintenance, how do I know which half of maintenance my...
Our applications are listed here:http://sxpindex.cloudapp.nethttp://sxpdata.cloudapp.netThey are deployed in US South Central, but we don't know which half of the maintenance they will be in, we need...
View ArticleAzure Maintenance August 2014
Hi Support,I would want to know what will be the impact on our Virtual Machines running in South East Asia? I don't see an action plan documents from your side. Please let me know1) Will all my...
View ArticleInstalling a LAMP setup on Windows azure
Just wanted to get the conversation started on how we can setup a LAMP build for Windows Azure VM's Look forward to everyone's input. I will be using powershell, Azure console and SSH tools to set it...
View ArticleThe forum for Azure Virtual Machines for Linux doesn't have an option to...
There is a forum previous to this page that says the Azure VM for Linux is supposed to be under the Microsoft Azure - CTPS, Betas and Labs but it is not. The only thing is VM's which is under...
View Articlepymongo mongodb connection issues
Hello,I have set up a MongoDB 2.6.3, 4 machine, replica set with Ubuntu 14.04 VM. I have noticed in the logs of each of the replica set members that there DNS resolution errors, as well as having a...
View ArticleInstallation of Xendesktop 7 on Azure
Hi All,I was wondering if anyone has tested or can guide me towards installation steps for Xendesktop 7 on Azure. I tried to build a test farm of XenDesktop 7 on Azure but failed due to below:1) Not...
View ArticleHow do I enable the .NET Framework 3.5 on an Azure VM created from a Windows...
I have a new Azure VM (the Visual Studio Professional 14 CTP 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 image) and I'm trying to install SQL Server on it. The installation fails because it cannot see the .NET Framework...
View ArticleVM spontaneously reboot, stuck on starting
Hi,At about 09:25 my client's VM shutdown/restarted spontaneously while I was connected via RDP. I didn't request the shut down or get a chance to cancel it. I assumed it was a Windows Update and...
View ArticleUnable to connect to VM
I'm unable to RDP to a VM I had working as of Friday. I shut it down Friday and tried bringing it back up this morning.I've tried:Restarting itDeleting the VM (keeping the disks) and recreating...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery for Windows Azure VMs
Hello, I am looking for the solution to backup my virtual machine on Azure that I can automatically restore it when system crashed. Currently, what I know is I can take backup of my VM (vhd) and...
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