[URGENT] My VM is unable to connect after the Azure maintenance
After the maintenance period (August 22-24), one of my VMs becomes unconnectable. RDP, HTTP, FTP and all other ports dont answer and are unable to connect. I tried to recreate the endpoints, resize the...
View ArticleIssue setting IP address for VM
I am getting the error below even after confirming that IP address is availablePS C:\> Get-AzureVM -ServiceName XXXXX -Name BESAPP | Set-AzureStaticVNetIP -IPAddress 10.0.0.10 | Update-AzureVM...
View ArticleIP addresses: Upcoming maintenance, August 22-24th
Will this maintenance window deallocate and reassign the public IP addresses on these VM machines? The VM machines on are setup as an Affilinity group
View ArticlePricing discrepancy
Looking at the new management portal vs. the price lists on the Azure website, does anyone have any idea how I know which of the prices is correct? The following webpage has the price of a Basic A2...
View ArticleThe previous system shutdown at 3:35:00 PM on 8/7/2014 was unexpected.
Hello,We have an understandably upset customer whose server restarted without warning yesterday afternoon. Please can someone help me provide an explanation as to why this happened?Thank you.
View ArticleAZURE Virtual machine RDP erroring out and PING FAILED
HiI see there was some outage in US EAST azure cloud.. Now the dashboard says its all fine BUT - I am unable to ping the virtual machine nor do any RDP.. but the dashboard of my azure says its running...
View ArticleSafe to clear dftmp folder
Hi,Is it safe to clear the dftmp folder (C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\dftmp) on a VM running in Azure?Kind regards,T
View ArticleAzure download VHD fails
I just lost access to an Ubuntu VM on azure, and I am attempting to download the VHD to another VM to recover data from the disk. I'm using the azure command line tool to accomplish this. I've...
View ArticleCannot access virtual machine
I have a virtual machine within a virtual network within azure with a point to client VPN set up.I can access two other machines in the same cloud service, but one of the virtual machines is no longer...
View ArticleKickStart ks.cfg CentOS 6.5 instance deployment: possible? how?
I wish to deploy a windows azure virtual machine instance using my unattended kickstart file, ks.cfg, on CentOS 6.5 Is such a deployment possible? If so - how? Is there also a way to install the...
View ArticleStatic MAC address required for licensing
We want to use Azure VMs to launch a new service to our customers.The service requires 3rd party software using FlexNet licensing (based on the MAC address)We know the MAC address can change in Azure...
View ArticleStatic MAC address for Azure VM
It was suggested that Microsoft is planning to introduce static MAC addresses for VM network cards in the...
View ArticleActivate Office on Windows Azure. MSDN premium subscription. Stop/Start...
I installed MS OFFICE on a windows AZURE virtual machineThe Virtual Machine was created with my MSDN premium subscriptionI activated the Office with a key from my MSDN subscription ALL good. OFfice...
View ArticleLinux CLI errors - DNS and credentials issues
Hi,We have started to experience two error types recently (in the past month). They appear randomly and quite often, and they are affecting our operations in a negative way. I searched the internet for...
View ArticleDNS PTR records for our VM?
Is there a way to set the PTR record that goes with my VM's IP address?I'd like my server name to point to my IP (which I can do), but I need the reverse DNS to map that IP back to my host name.
View ArticleLinux VM - root volume changed to Read-only after sometimes, reboot solve the...
We've a Linux instance and the root volume would automatically changed to readonly after the machine is running for some time (This is the 3rd times) , and reboot the system solve the issue, but it...
View ArticleNewbie End User Trying to Create Virtual Desktop
Hi,I'm trying to create a desktop in the cloud so I can run 2 windows software applications (Quickbooks and 1 other). This is in lieu of purchasing another desktop PC.I signed up for a free trial on...
View ArticleFailed To Create Virtual Machine
Trying to create a Win 7 Enterprise VM. Regardless of what I try I always get a "Failed to create virtual machine" with no further details other than to "Please try again. If the problem persists,...
View ArticleAzure VM instance role name
Hi I have VMs created on Azure and i renamed couple of them but still the name appeared like old on the portal I found some articles talking about it but I need real steps on how I can rename the...
View ArticleUnable to connect to VMs after maintenance
Like many others in this forum I'm not able to connect to my VM after the maintenance and it work great before.Have someone found a solution or is Microsoft trying to fix the problems ?
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