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

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

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

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

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

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

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