Microsoft Azure Support Team Blog
If you notice the Boot Diagnostics screenshot for your Azure VM is stale in the Azure portal, first...
Date: 02/15/2018
Azure is committed to stopping SPAM and reducing the customer impact caused by negative IP...
Date: 11/15/2017
Introduction This blog post will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring...
Date: 09/29/2017
This article will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring on Windows VMs...
Date: 09/12/2017
Azure uses the following KMS endpoints for Windows product activation of Azure Virtual Machines:...
Date: 06/14/2017
Convert BEK Disk Encryption to KEK for Azure Recovery Services A common desire is to convert Azure...
Date: 11/28/2016
In today’s blog, we will demonstrate behavior of Azure Disk Encryption Extension and how it...
Date: 11/27/2016
Microsoft Azure: How to execute a synchronous Azure PowerShell cmdlet multiple times at once, using a single PowerShell session
Overview Often times, Microsoft Azure customers have requirements to create multiple resources of...
Date: 06/29/2016
(contributed by Michael Jolley) While enabling an ARM circuit for use with classic deployments is...
Date: 05/18/2016
An Azure VM may experience the following symptoms if you have a network security group (NSG) rule...
Date: 04/27/2016
Please see updated content...
Date: 04/04/2016
Microsoft evaluates the security of its infrastructure on an ongoing basis and part of this...
Date: 03/03/2016
This post was contributed by Stefano Gagliardi, Pedro Perez, Telma Oliveira, and Leonid Gagarin As...
Date: 02/04/2016
Azure load balanced endpoints enable a port to be configured on multiple role instances or virtual...
Date: 01/26/2016
Recently a customer had an issue where they were setting some registry values in their Azure VM by...
Date: 01/08/2016
The Microsoft Antimalware extension (IaaSAntimalware) requires a minimum configuration when...
Date: 12/27/2015
Customers can advertise a default route (also known as forced tunneling) over their ExpressRoute...
Date: 12/01/2015
This post was contributed by Pedro Perez. Azure’s network infrastructure is quite different than...
Date: 07/13/2015
As of today, June 2015, the supported IP protocols for Azure cloud services are TCP (protocol number...
Date: 06/18/2015
Hello, cluster fans! In my previous blog, Part 1, I talked about how to work around the storage...
Date: 06/17/2015
Hello, cluster fans. This is Mario Liu and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows High...
Date: 06/17/2015
If customers enable forced tunneling on their subnets to force internet connectivity via on premises...
Date: 05/20/2015
Customers may observe that their PaaS role instances and IaaS virtual machines are only issued one...
Date: 05/18/2015
The IP address 168.63.129.16 is a virtual public IP address that is used to facilitate a...
Date: 05/18/2015
I have been supporting Azure for 7 years now and one of the constants is the rapid pace of change of...
Date: 04/12/2015
This post was contributed by Pedro Perez Can Traffic Manager coexist with Azure Load Balancer? And...
Date: 04/10/2015
When creating an Azure VM with multiple NICs and subnets, the guest's default gateway is not...
Date: 02/10/2015
For classic VMs, there are artifacts (metadata about the VHDs) that keep a lease on the VHD even...
Date: 01/27/2015
[Update:1/28/2015] These steps apply only to classic VMs. If you need assistance with Resource...
Date: 11/20/2014
In support, one of the most common questions we get is: How do I achieve the best disk performance...
Date: 10/14/2014
For Azure Virtual Machines, we document storage limits of 500 IOPS per disk, and the guidance to not...
Date: 08/02/2014
Azure Service Management REST API is used by all the public tools provided by Microsoft to manage...
Date: 07/15/2014
You can set up AutoScale for your Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Web Sites from the Azure...
Date: 07/14/2014
The Windows Azure Import/Export Service enables you to move large amount of data in or out of your...
Date: 07/12/2014
Event ID 2: Session "WindowsAzure-GuestAgent-Metrics" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
You may notice the following error on an Azure VM in the event log under Applications and Services...
Date: 07/09/2014
[Update 7/17/2014] Azure PowerShell 0.8.5 has released which resolves the inability to use VM agent...
Date: 07/01/2014
If you are looking for a reliable way to copy files to or from Azure storage then this blog post...
Date: 06/28/2014
Because the ICMP protocol is not permitted through the Azure load balancer, you will notice that you...
Date: 06/22/2014
In some cases you may encounter an allocation failure error when you are trying to perform an action...
Date: 06/21/2014
[Update 11/11/2014] The VM agent no longer relies on the VM's configured DNS server for name...
Date: 06/18/2014
How to determine Current Guest OS family - Only for Pass Instance (Web Role and Worker Role) Windows Azure PowerShell
Set Up Windows Azure Powershell ....
Date: 05/19/2014
Note: This blog post comes from Manoj Sehgal, Sr. Support Escalation Engineer from Microsoft Azure...
Date: 05/15/2014
Microsoft Azure datacenter's IP location, shows incorrect location when using IP Geolocation services
If you have looked up the IP that is assigned to your Microsoft Azure deployments using any of the...
Date: 05/09/2014
The Windows Installer MSI package to install the VM Agent on an existing Azure VM is available for...
Date: 04/07/2014
[UPDATE 07/17/2014] Make sure you are using version 0.8.5 or later of Azure PowerShell as there was...
Date: 03/06/2014
The VM agent for Windows Azure Virtual Machines is now installed by default when creating new VMs in...
Date: 02/17/2014
You can use mstsc /admin to work around the following licensing error when attempting to connect...
Date: 01/21/2014
SQL Server Configuration Manager error "Invalid class [0x80041010]" on Visual Studio gallery image VM
If you are using the Visual Studio 2013 Gallery image for MSDN subscribers to create an Azure VM and...
Date: 01/18/2014
UPDATE Mar. 10: This issue is now resolved. The fix has been fully deployed to all Windows Azure...
Date: 01/14/2014
This post is authored by Lalitesh Kumar, Pradeep M G and reviewed by Avinash Venkat Reddy. Also...
Date: 12/12/2013