Unable to switch to (new) Basic Tier
I am running a single VM Windows Server 2012 R2 machine on Azure, no load balancing or availability sets have been configured. I tried to reset the VM from "Standard" to "Basic", but it has failed...
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Error changing Virtual Machine Tier from Standard to Basic
When changing the Virtual Machine Tier on theConfigure tab of a VM from Standard to Basic you may see the following error message:Failed to configure virtual machine <VM name>Expanding the error...
View ArticlePlanned Maintenance on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
The Windows Azure team will be performing maintenance operations that will briefly impact Windows Azure Virtual Machines. The expected impact should be limited to brief Virtual Machine unavailability...
View ArticleSetting up VM for Prime Challenge
I am trying to follow the video instructions for setting up a VM for the MS Prime Challenge ujsing the free trial subscription. My VM (pwc1) starts in the Running (Provisioning) state and then...
View Article"The server encountered an internal error. Please retry the request." While...
As the subject says, I get an error everytime I try to start a VM (all of them are in US EAST). Also, when changing from standard to basic on a running VM I get an error and when trying to create a new...
View ArticleDowntime of single VM instance
Hi folks,I understand that we need to create Availability Group with minimum 2 VMs to get 99.9% SLA. But I am interested in knowing what kind of downtown people have experienced for their VMs that are...
View ArticleVM MySQL
Getting an error trying to connect to MySQL on VM: Connecting to MySQL Server... ERROR. Check your login credentials. unable to connect to database as rootQuestion?If you are running MySQL on an Azure...
View ArticleScheduling VM start and stop
Hi, how can I configure a VM to be up only certain hours of the day?
View ArticleHow to set up a reliable developer machine?
Hello,I would like to set up a development environment in the cloud such that is is always available even when maintenance is being done by microsoft. How can I achieve this?I have created a virtual...
View ArticleAzure Firewall settings
I have a service running on my Azure server and have identified the service and port for TCP and UDP inbound connection in the firewall in the same manner that I do for my hosted Windows 2012 server -...
View ArticleNew US East Large VM is slow, also in Brazil
I've tried to create two A4 Basic VMs in the US East region in the last 2 days using the Visual Studio 2013 image. Both VMs were very sluggish via RDP, taking several seconds to do simple things like...
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 ArticleAzure Cloud Vm is locked [SOLVED]
Hi we have our vm locked. His status is in execution, from azure interface seems that machine in ok, but we cant go to rdp, installed web sites are not responding, and nothing else works. What we can...
View ArticleHost Multiple Sites from ONE Azure IIS Server
I am trying to host three websites from a single IIS server and am having some trouble getting them to work. I have all three sites created in IIS, but can only get one of them to open in a web...
View ArticleVM public IP is in wrong/incorrect region
I created a Windows 2012 R2 VM and selected US/East as the Region/Location. The VM was then assigned a public IP located in Brazil. Does Azure consider the VM Location setting just a "guideline" and...
View ArticleTrouble connecting to VM via RDP
I cannot connect to my VM through RDP. Was working fine, I was in the middle of running some powershell scripts to add some internal IPs to my machine (as I have done previously on an on premises...
View ArticleAzure - Local account disabled when deploying VM from image
Hi,I have created an image from a vhd (that was previously sysprepped), and deployed a VM using that image. When deploying, I specified username and password. After the VM is provisioned and started, I...
View ArticleGeo-Location of IP addresses used by Japan West instances.
I created a new VM on Japan-west successfully. But some applications which interact with local(in Japan, of course) service, are not work. Finally I found the reason. The local service has IP...
View Articlebing.com thinks my azure VM is in Brazil
I created a azure windows server 2012 in EastUS region. When I open bing.com(tried both IE 10 and chrome), it redirect me to the br.bing.com. I checked the system locale, it is set to United States....
View ArticleNew VM creation logging
I have used the quick create to create a VM and it said it was creating but I don't see any new VM after that.Is there any logging I can take a look to find out what happened?
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