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Unable to user RDP with users other than the principal one
In my virtual machine I've created another user, added him to the remote desktop users, but when I try to connect with RDP using that user I got this error. The user Profile Service failed the...
View ArticleAzure VM restart by vmicsvc.exe
Hi Window Azure Support Team,We have many VM machine on Window Azure and day before yesterday one of our VM reboot by this bug.Please note this VM hosted SQL server and many live clients, this time we...
View ArticleHow do I upgrade my OS from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2?
You would think I could find an answer to this question after a quick search, but I can't. I have a current Azure server running Windows 2012 and I want to upgraded it to R2. I have seen about 50...
View ArticleVM is stuck at provisioning when creating from a customized image
I am kind of new and try to capture a image and create another VM from this image. Here is what I did.1. Create a new VM from standard image, for example, windows server 2008 R22. RDP the VM and run...
View ArticleHow to shrink the default 127 GB Windows VHD to a more manageable size for...
Hi,I'm new to this Windows Azure experience, having been an Amazon EC2 user for a few months prior, and I'm not sure how I can download my Windows Azure VHDs (that are created at 127 GB by default)...
View ArticleAzure Powershell Save-AzureVhd fails with vague error: One or more errors...
I am trying to download a Azure vhd to local disk. The process starts, creates the file, reports progress then exits with the below message.Save-AzureVhd -Source $sourceVHD -LocalFilePath...
View ArticleAdd-AzureDataDisk - BadRequest: The specified disk size value of 0 GB is...
I had a script I have used many time to duplicate a disk by copying the blob then attaching the disk. It has recently started to fail with the error message:Update-AzureVM : BadRequest: The specified...
View ArticleVM machine automatically rebooted
Can someone explain why one of my Ubuntu server was rebooted in the middle of the day?Mar 25 10:55:09 host kernel: [3241156.287390] hv_utils: Shutdown request received - graceful shutdown initiatedTime...
View ArticleCan a clone of a VM be created?
I have a scenario where every time I get a new client I need to create a new VM, and the steps involved are: Install SQL ServerInstall .Net Framework 4.5Install IISInstall our Windows ServiceInstall...
View ArticleVMs had been restarted by vmicsvc.exe
Some of my VMs had been restarted by vmicsvc.exe around 3/21/2014 10:43:31 PM(UTC).Event log show that:The process C:\Windows\system32\vmicsvc.exe (XXX) has initiated the shutdown of computer XXX on...
View ArticleVirtual Machine - cannot shutdown, nor connect to it
Hi,I have a virtual machine with Windows Server 2012.I had problems to start it a few days ago on: 3/26/2014. After many retries (along 7 hours or so), it started. Now it is shown as running but I...
View ArticleRecovery manager and Hyper-V virtual machine Azure
Hi,I have virtual machine on Azure (Windows Server 2008 R2). After reading a lot of documentations on internet (Microsoft source), I can't understand how I can do work my Hyper V recovery manager for...
View ArticleConnection refused error ssh on Linux virtual machine
I have setup 1 cloud service with 3 instances of Linux machines the first isnstance Shh end point set to port 22 the other matchine on the same cloud service end points set up to : 23 and 24 so, when...
View ArticleHosting Multiple sites with custom domain for each other in a single VM
I have created a Windows Server 2008R2 Virtual Machine, installed IIS in it, and hosted a root site , and configured it to access it through custom domain . i.e www.mysitetech.comNow i want to host...
View ArticleAll VMs shutdown in the middle of the day by process vmicsvc.exe Event ID 1074
we can see that the servers were instructed to restart via a windows process 'Event ID 1074 , the process 'c:\windows\system32\vmicsvc.exe has initated a shutdown of computer' I have found other Azure...
View ArticleThe IO operation at logical block address xxxxxxx for Disk x was retired.
In my Azure VM I'm getting lots of these errors in the System event log:The IO operation at logical block address xxxxxxx for Disk x was retired.These errors are causing my VM to preform very slowly...
View ArticleVM auto restart
Hi team,we encount some VM role auto restart problem, we have a VM availbity set which contains 3 VMs and today these VMs are restarted one by one, i know that availbity set can keep at least one VMs...
View ArticleServers restart without warning and then windows services do not start.
I understand the reasons that Azure IAAS servers must be restarted, but the process by which it happens (for me at least) is really rough. Yesterday, All my servers restarted twice in one night,...
View ArticleACL on endpoint configured by the gui not working (restricting access)
Before I go on, I've already found and read this post:...
View ArticleAzure from work?
I'm trying to remote connect to my newly created Azure virtual machine running Windows Server. I keep getting an error saying it cannot connect.I think my company has a firewall or something blocking...
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