Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration Engineering

(Compute, Cache, Storage, ACS, Service Bus, WebSites, VMs, SQL Azure, Data Sync, Import Export)

Azure Blob Storage operations with Storage Python SDK

This blog describes how to perform the basic operations on blobs using the Python API. We’ll be...

Author: Mrutyunjaya Kar Date: 05/13/2017

How to fix Load Balancer not working in Round-robin fashion for your Cloud Service

Issue: I recently came across a case where customer has an issue that the Load balancer of his cloud...

Author: VinothMariKumar Date: 04/19/2017

How to retrieve Job action settings of Scheduler Job using Powershell

Sometimes, we may have a requirement to retrieve the job action details of your scheduled job in the...

Author: VinothMariKumar Date: 02/21/2017

How to reclaim your recently deleted ServiceBus namespace “name” instead 7 days wait time

When you have multiple subscriptions, sometimes you create namespace in some another subscription...

Author: Abhinav Ranjan Sinha MSFT Date: 01/11/2017

How to add missing resource types in azure

Some of you may get this error "Handling the error 'The subscription ‘xxxxxx’ is not registered for...

Author: mabira Date: 01/11/2017

Troubleshooting: Azure Auto-scale profile does not change

Sometimes customers are faced with situation with Auto Scale, where they try to update or delete the...

Author: Souvik Das(Black Knight) Date: 01/03/2017

Can we use set-query-parameter policy inside send-request policy? -No

Several times you come across a situation where you should use send-request policy to make use of an...

Author: Kalpit Singh Date: 01/02/2017

How to protect an API in Azure APIM using Azure Active Directory.

This article is intended to summarize a very common scenario where we would like to authenticate an...

Author: Kalpit Singh Date: 12/14/2016

Detect backend api response latency using APIM policy

Recently I had a query from a developer asking is there a way to identify response time by backend...

Author: Kalpit Singh Date: 12/01/2016

Azure Management Certificates and Publishing Setting file with CSP Subscriptions

In this post I will talk about a limitation of Azure CSP Subscriptions that makes users unable to...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 11/28/2016

On deploying cloud service, users sometimes receives alerts notifying WAS has not been started

Problem: IIS fails to start, Throws the error : “The World Wide Web Publishing Service service...

Author: gotoblog_Manish Date: 11/23/2016

Cloud services are not available in this subscription

You recently got a permission for a given subscription on Azure and when you try to deploy a new...

Author: wagsousa Date: 07/05/2016

Cloud Services PaaS - Common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration

This article is intended to summarize a few common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration on...

Author: wagsousa Date: 05/20/2016

Using blob snapshots with PowerShell

Sometime ago, I had a customer who asked me the way to create a blob snapshot of an Azure VM. The...

Author: Julio Co - MSFT Date: 05/17/2016

Azure Emulator Crash with error 0x800700b7: Cannot create a file when that file already exists

Sometimes when you are using Visual Studio and working on some Azure projects, you might hit an...

Author: Julio Co - MSFT Date: 05/17/2016

Understanding CPU metric data from Azure Cloud Services.

In this article we will learn how to interpret the CPU metric in both the Azure Portal as well as in...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 05/12/2016

Error “Access to the path ‘E:sitesroot�Web.config’ is denied” when storing Azure AD’s public key in Web.config of an Azure Cloud Services application.

I have worked on a scenario where a Web Role application which had been working fine for a long time...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2016

Webhooks for Azure Alerts - Creating a sample ASP.NET receiver application

Microsoft Azure recently announced support for webhooks on Azure Alerts. Now you can provide an...

Author: sangram.c.patil@gmail.com Date: 11/02/2015

Automatically flushing DNS in Azure PaaS Cloud Services Instances

I have worked on a case where because a specific reason, it was needed to Flush DNS from the PaaS...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 10/12/2015

Cloud Services roles recycling with the error “System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly”

You may be facing an issue where after a deploy, your Cloud Service role gets stuck in...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2015

Installing DebugDiag and importing rules thru Azure Cloud Services startup tasks

This article describes the steps for how to install DebugDiag version 2 update 1 on Cloud Services...

Author: Leonardo Villar [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2015

The VM size (or combination of VM sizes) required by this deployment cannot be provisioned due to deployment request constraints

  While trying to deploy a D-Series IaaS VM (could happen for A 8/A9 IaaS VMs as well) from the...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 03/11/2015

Azure Storage Queue - Randomly Getting 403 Forbidden on delete of queue message with REST API

  While developing an application that reads and deletes messages on an Azure storage Queue...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/25/2015

Not Able to Delete Storage Account - Ensure these image(s) and/or disk(s) are removed before deleting this storage account

While deleting an Azure Storage Account you might come across the following error. Storage account...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/18/2015

Troubleshooting Scenario - High CPU usage on PaaS Roles with the same load after a running for a few hours

  I had this interesting issue reported where the instance count would increase from 10 to 50...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/17/2015

  While setting up an Azure Service Bus AMQP Java project in Eclipse by following the code from...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/15/2015

Monitoring blade in the New Portal showing 'Monitoring may not be enabled. Click here to turn on Diagnostic' for the Azure Services

  Recently, it is noticed that Azure new Portal is not displaying the matrices data for the...

Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 02/12/2015

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services scheduled maintenance - Disable SSL V3.0 - Start on 19th Jan 2015 : How will I know if I am affected? How can I prevent it ? How should I plan for updates?

Everything in here is for PaaS Cloud Service and may not necessarily apply to IaaS VMs. The January...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 01/16/2015

  In recent past we have noticed that few customers complaining about sign in, while attempting...

Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 01/08/2015

Unable to Create Topic/Queues within Service Bus with Java SDK

You have been trying to create a Topic within Service Bus, by following the documentation at...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 12/23/2014

Upcoming removal of earlier versions of Azure Storage Service APIs - How do I know if my code that uses Azure Storage is to be affected by upcoming API versions removal in December 2015?

  Hi my name is Angshuman Nayak, I belong to the Cloud Integration Engineering (CIE) Team and...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 12/16/2014

Collecting diagnostic information from Azure management portal when an error occurs

  Many a times you see errors on Azure management portal while doing an operation. Most of the...

Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 10/29/2014

Service Bus namespace creation on portal no longer has ACS connection string

As per this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn170478.aspx we have both ways of...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/29/2014

Reverse DNS for Azure Cloud Services using Service Management API

The Azure Networking team has got the Reverse DNS feature out.This article...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/07/2014

RDP failures on recycling role

Many times we want to login to an Azure VM when the role is recycling so that we can troubleshoot...

Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 06/19/2014

New-AzureStorageShare : The remote name could not be resolved: 'fileservices.file.core.windows.net' / I created a new storage account but don't see the file service on the portal

Recently I helped a customer on an issue where they were following instructions at...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 06/06/2014

Step-by-Step Instruction for creating Managed Cache Namespace Using Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets

Currently the ability to create Azure Managed Cache Service Namespace from Portal is disabled,...

Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 05/15/2014

How to Connect to Managed Cache Service using the code and not with typical way of configuration?

Here's a sample code to connect to Managed Cache Service, which we typically connect using Cache...

Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 05/07/2014

Cache retry fails .. what next ??

When using In-Role Cache or Cache Service applications may get retry’ble error such as below...

Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 04/29/2014

System.Net/WCF Diagnostics SDP

System.Net/WCF Diagnostics SDP package helps us with the ability to enable and collect logs for...

Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 04/28/2014

Connections To Azure Role Not Getting Load Balanced Between Instances

Lot of times during testing a Cloud Service Role deployed on Microsoft Azure, users feel that the...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 03/31/2014

Join online Webinar - Introduction to Microsoft Azure Autoscale (Preview) on April 1st at 3:30 pm IST GMT+5:30

Topic: Introduction to Microsoft Azure Autoscale (Preview) Presented By: Anurag Sharma,...

Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 03/30/2014

Custom Hostname For Windows Azure PAAS Virtual Machines

If we remote desktop to an Azure Instance for a PAAS role and look at the hostname we see something...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 03/30/2014

How to Reduce Bills (Save $) For Your Applications Deployed On Windows Azure Virtual Machines

Azure VMs continue to be billed if they're shutdown from within the virtual machine. In Azure...

Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 03/30/2014

“Encountered unexpected character 'ï'” error serializing JSON

When trying to deserialize JSON-encoded data from a file using the DataContractJsonSerializer, you...

Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 03/19/2014

Windows Azure In-Role Cache Error "ErrorCode:SubStatus:The DataCacheLockHandle passed is invalid" - ASP.Net Session State Management

Symptoms: You could run into below exceptions when using Windows Azure In-Role Cache as the store...

Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 03/10/2014

Windows Azure In-Role Cache: Diagnostics Data Collection

If you are running into any issues with In-Role (Role-based) Windows Azure Cache, you can have the...

Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 03/07/2014

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