Selecting different plan for running VM
Hi,I have a VM which uses A2 plan and want to switch it to D1. Currently I can am using 70GB from 128GB disk space provisioned. The D1 plan offers 50GB local SSD disk.Does it meant that if I decide...
View Articlehow to share my DVD drive with my Azure Virtual Machine?
I am remote desktop connected to my virtual machine. How do I install software from the DVD drive of my PC onto the virtual machine?thanks,
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Azure VM Running Windows 2012 R2 Data Center - License Expires in 20 Days
I have a created a VM with Windows 2012 R2 Data Center edition....the moment I logged on it has message on desktop saying license valid for 20 days and it won't allow me to activate and tries to...
View ArticleAzure Server 2008 CAS issue installing SQL Express
When I try to install any version of SQL Server Express (2008, 2012,2014) on a Azure Virtual Machine (Windows Server 2008 R2), I get the following error soon after the installation begins: "Microsoft...
View ArticleVisual Studio Enterprise Edition Licensing Problem
I have a trial subscription.I installed a virtual machine from the gallery "Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 with Azure SDK 2.7Windows Server 2012 R2".The virtual machine installed ok. The problem I have...
View ArticleVirtual Machine 10 users remote simultanous
HelloIm looking to get a virtual server running in which I wish to install quickbooks for around 10 users to access at the same time through remote desktop login.We had a physical server before where...
View ArticleHuge Data Out
I started a VM some hour ago and I spent 10GB of "Data Transfer Out". How it can be possible if my site has 10~20 visits/day?At my last host I was spending 3GB/month. The time that I used to configure...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 OS down without any error in the logs
Hi,Recently One of the VMs running Ubuntu 14.04 was down. When we analyze /var/log after starting the VM on Manage Azure portal, there are no errors or indications for the OS crash.There was only one...
View ArticleTransition existing vms/resources into ARM
Twitter User @trondhindenesOriginal Tweet:"The lack of information from @Azure regarding v1-->v2 vms is just shocking. I have a bad feeling about it."Hi, thanks for following up: Regarding my tweet:...
View ArticleSince last week, Azure throws new exception when stopping VMs that are...
We have an enterprise product that allows our customers to provision virtual desktops and apps in the Azure cloud to serve to their users (employees). Frequently, we need to stop and deallocate Azure...
View ArticleRebooting under no load (VM with Server 2008 or 2012)
Server is spontaneously rebooting. For example let VM sit there and not do anything, then logged back on a few hours later and I'm getting prompted as to why the machine rebooted unexpectedly.System...
View ArticleGet a free trial without a Credit card?
Hi everyone!I'm a student in Vietnam. I want to get a free 30-day-trial from MS Azure to test my project but I don't have any credit card so I can't register :(. I really want to have VPS to test my...
View ArticleAZURE VM embeded full reporting services seems quite expensive
Dear all,I have used a VM image on azure which includes all stuff for reporting services environement. By using this VM and let it run without any access to report server cost me nearly 30 euros for 3...
View ArticleDeploy VMs from classic images using Preview Portal and Resource Manager...
Hey folks,I'm planning to change to Preview Portal and Resource Manager deployment model because I found these resource groups handy for me. I have some custom VM images saved in the classic Azure...
View ArticleRetaining "Preferred DNS Server" entries when VMs deallocated
Hi.I've recently set up an Azure envt with a DC, WSFC and 2 SQL instances and I can get these all communicating with each other and working fine, HOWEVER the WSFC and SQL instances lose their preferred...
View ArticleError trying to stop VMs "The server encountered an internal error. Please...
From Matthew Fried @mattnfried via Twitter @AzureSupport Error trying to stop VMs "The server encountered an internal error. Please retry the request." Both on portal and...
View ArticleWhy is Azure AD needed when deploying a VM with on-prem AD and on-site VPN?
From @CloudFronts via Twitter: Hi! We are trying to deploy AX 2012 R3 on Azure and had a question: Why do we need an Azure AD when we have an On-Prem AD & a Vnet on Azure with a site-to-site VPN? I...
View ArticleSSL connection cannot be established error on executing the remote command...
Using the Get-AzureCertificate command install the certificate and executed the commands in remote azure vm from local machine from 09-01-2015 (yesterday) onwards cannot able to execute the commands...
View ArticleARM update OS disk size for VMs created from Gallery Images?
Is there a way to expend/extend the OS disk size for ARM VMs created from Gallery Images?
View ArticleCan't Start of Create Preview Portal Resource Manager VM
Twitter customer @ReneRJS is experiencing the following problem:"Is there a problem with resource manager based VM's? I can't start current one or create a new one. I can create a classic VM. I tried...
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