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Windows Azure Traffic Manager Performance Impact
A somewhat common question regarding Windows Azure Traffic Manager (WATM) deals with potential performance problems that it might cause. The questions are typically along the lines of “How much...
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Troubleshooting Scenario 5 – Internal Server Error 500 in WebRole
This post will describe how to troubleshoot an Internal Server Error 500 in an Azure webrole. This is a continuation of the troubleshooting series.SymptomYou have deployed your WebRole, which works...
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Troubleshooting Scenario 6 – Role Recycling After Running For Some Time
In Troubleshooting Scenario 2 we looked at a scenario where the role would recycle after running fine for some time due to a bug in a startup task triggered by a role recycle such as an OS update....
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Troubleshooting Scenario 7 – Role Recycling
In Troubleshooting Scenario 1 we looked at a scenario where the role would recycle after deployment and the root cause was easily seen in the Windows Azure Event Logs. This blog post will show another...
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Windows Azure Storage Analytics SDP Package
In a previous post we looked at the Windows Azure PaaS SDP package which allows you to quickly and easily gather all of the log data to determine root cause for a variety of PaaS compute issues. This...
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Windows Azure Diagnostics – Upgrading from Azure SDK 2.4 to Azure SDK 2.5
OverviewWindows Azure SDK 2.4 and prior used Windows Azure Diagnostics 1.0 which provided multiple options for configuring diagnostics collection, including code based configuration using the...
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How to Restrict RDP Access in an Azure PaaS Cloud Service
A question I see periodically is how to restrict RDP access for PaaS services to specific network IP addresses. In the past this has always been difficult to do and the typical solution was to use a...
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Cloud Service RDP Configuration not available via portal
There are 2 ways to enable RDP for a PaaS cloud service – via the CSPKG using the RemoteAccess plugin, or via the portal (or Powershell or REST API) using an extension. There was a recent change to...
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Azure Cloud Services only support SHA-1 Thumbprint Algorithm
“My certificate provider recently switched to only providing SHA2/SHA256 certificates because SHA-1 certificates are no longer safe. But Azure only supports SHA1 certificates!...
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SDK 2.5 / WAD 1.2 --- IIS Logs Not Transferring to Storage in PaaS WebRoles
After upgrading to Azure SDK 2.5 with Windows Azure Diagnostics 1.2 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2014/12/02/windows-azure-diagnostics-upgrading-from-azure-sdk-2-4-to-azure-sdk-2-5.aspx)...
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Topology Blast–Send topology change updates to all instances at once
Windows Azure SDK 2.2 introduces the concept of a topology blast. This blog post will describe how topology changes happen at the fabric level and how you can take advantage of topology blast to...
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Authenticating Storage Requests Using SharedKeyAuthenticationHandler
With the older version of the storage client library (version 1.7) you could sign HttpWebRequests using the SignRequestLite function, and there were several examples on the web of how to do this. The...
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Troubleshooting Scenario 7 – Role Recycling
In Troubleshooting Scenario 1 we looked at a scenario where the role would recycle after deployment and the root cause was easily seen in the Windows Azure Event Logs. This blog post will show...
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Topology Blast–Send topology change updates to all instances at once
Windows Azure SDK 2.2 introduces the concept of a topology blast. This blog post will describe how topology changes happen at the fabric level and how you can take advantage of topology blast to...
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Windows Azure Storage Analytics SDP Package
In a previous post we looked at the Windows Azure PaaS SDP package which allows you to quickly and easily gather all of the log data to determine root cause for a variety of PaaS compute issues. This...
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Windows Azure Diagnostics – Upgrading from Azure SDK 2.4 to Azure SDK 2.5
Overview Windows Azure SDK 2.4 and prior used Windows Azure Diagnostics 1.0 which provided multiple options for configuring diagnostics collection, including code based configuration using the...
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A question I see periodically is how to restrict RDP access for PaaS services to specific network IP addresses. In the past this has always been difficult to do and the typical solution was to use a...
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Cloud Service RDP Configuration not available via portal
<Update March 2, 2015> The ability to modify RDP plugin settings via the portal has been restored. I will leave this blog post up since the password encryption portion can still be valuable...
View ArticleAzure Cloud Services only support SHA-1 Thumbprint Algorithm
“My certificate provider recently switched to only providing SHA2/SHA256 certificates because SHA-1 certificates are no longer safe. But Azure only supports SHA1 certificates!...
View ArticleSDK 2.5 / WAD 1.2 — IIS Logs Not Transferring to Storage in PaaS WebRoles
After upgrading to Azure SDK 2.5 with Windows Azure Diagnostics 1.2 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2014/12/02/windows-azure-diagnostics-upgrading-from-azure-sdk-2-4-to-azure-sdk-2-5.aspx)...
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