When you RDP to your Web Role you might not be able to access IIS log folder

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When you log into your Windows Azure VM which has Windows Azure Web Role, you might have problem accessing IIS logs. When you will try opening IIS logs folder you will get "access denied" error. The irony is that this issue happens randomly.

 IIS Logs Location:

C:\Resources\Directory\<guid>.<role>.DiagnosticStore\LogFiles\W3SVC*

Here is what you can do to access IIS log: