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Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure...
In my last post I explained how to leverage the support for Remote PowerShell in your Windows Azure Virtual Machines. While this is fairly easy to setup, it can get a little boring if you need to...
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Introducing the Event-Driven Message Programming Model for the Windows Azure...
Only a few days after announcing improvements to IaaS, Scott Guthrie announced the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.0. This release improves the Visual Studio tooling, deployment, automation, … And...
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Reference implementation: Creating a hybrid cloud with Windows Azure Virtual...
After Microsoft announced software based Site-to-Site VPN support between Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Windows Server 2012 Routing And Remote Access I wrote a blog post on how easy it is to...
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SignalR 1.1 Scale Out on Windows Azure with the Windows Azure Service Bus
SignalR has been around for a while now and people are using it to build stunning real-time applications. While this worked fine on a single server deployment, there was no production ready support for...
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Using PowerShell Web Access to manage your Windows Azure Virtual Machines and...
PowerShell Web Access is a new feature of Windows Server 2012 which provides you a web-based PowerShell console. This diagram from the Deploy Windows PowerShell Web Access article on TechNet gives you...
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Extending the Windows Azure Management Portal with your own Javascript...
Today I want to share a little trick I’ve been using for a while now to automate or improve some things in the Windows Azure Management Portal. Let’s start with the beginning. As you all probably know...
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Remotely accessing the Windows Azure Compute Emulator
We tend to use virtual machines from the modern.ie site to do browser compatibility tests and most of the time it’s sufficient to deploy to a Cloud Service we use for testing (eg:...
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Using your Belgian eID or any other smartcard to securely deploy Windows...
Just like most people I love how easy it is to work with the Windows Azure platform. You download a publish settings file, import it in Visual Studio and now you have access to the complete...
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Using ASP.NET App Suspend in your Windows Azure Web Roles (OS Family 4)
Windows Server 2012 R2 was released about 2 weeks ago together with Visual Studio 2013 and the .NET Framework 4.5.1. One of the updated features in Windows Server 2012 R2 is IIS 8.5 which introduces...
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A complete overview to get started with the Windows Azure Scheduler
Job scheduling in Windows Azure, this has always been an interesting topic with plenty of solutions to get the “job” done: Mobile Services Scheduler, Quartz Scheduler, FluentScheduler, WebBackgrounder,...
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My Windows Azure birthday cake!
Last week was my 27th birthday and for that occasion my wife made me a … Windows Azure cake (with little blue hearts)!
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Adding failover to your application with Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage...
Today Scott Guthrie announced the public preview of Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage. Before we start talking about failover, let’s take a quick look at how you can create a Storage Account: Locally...
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Calculating how much storage space a Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disk is...
When working with Virtual Machines in Windows Azure, the disks (VHDs) are persisted as Page Blobs in your Storage Account (excepted for the temporary disk). These page blobs are stored in sparse format...
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Release unused space from your Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disks to reduce...
A few weeks ago Mike Wood talked about the TRIM support for Windows Azure Virtual Machines: TRIM Support comes to Windows Azure Virtual Machines. In his post Mike explains how a feature similar to TRIM...
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Running a legacy OS in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine (Windows XP, Windows...
This article will show what’s technically possible in terms of running a legacy OS in Windows Azure. You also need to be aware that running a Desktop Operating System in a public cloud is not allowed...
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“Request value ‘enable’ was not found” when using Get-AzureVM
A while ago we built our own test rig in Windows Azure using 12 virtual machines. Now since these machines use lots of resources we only turn them on when we need to do heavy load testing for our...
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Planning to run something in Microsoft Azure? Then choose your region wisely…
So you want to run your application, your next project, … something on Microsoft Azure? Now image you’re already at that point where you start using Microsoft Azure. What would be the first thing you...
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Migrating your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine to a different subnet with the...
In the past you had to redeploy your Virtual Machine when you wanted to change the subnet in which the machine was deployed. There could be a few reasons why you would need to change the subnet for a...
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Customizing your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines with the new CustomScript...
After you deploy a Virtual Machine you typically need to make some changes before it’s ready to use. This is something you can do manually or you could use Remote PowerShell to automate the...
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Manually installing the VM Agent on your older Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Yesterday I covered the new CustomScript extension for the VM Agent and in today’s post we’ll continue on the VM Agent topic. The VM Agent was introduced a few weeks ago with support to install it when...
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