Microsoft Azure Guide & others

My 10 cents on Microsoft Azure

Need to apply my tags to my azure VMs and they are a lot !

Hi All, I've just finished one script for one of my customers that will help them to apply their...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 06/20/2018

Getting SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user ‘user’@'IPaddress' (using password: YES) when trying to restore mySQL dump to Azure MySQL DB PaaS

I was debugging a Magento deployment on Microsoft Azure for one of my customers as they were trying...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 04/18/2018

Azure Media Functions (Server-less Functions)

I've been working on a set of Azure Serverless functions for Azure Media Services to complement the...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 01/23/2018

Enable the addition of multiple Nics to Azure VM from the GUI

Microsoft has launched the ability to have multiple NICs per Azure VM sometime ago but in order for...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 04/10/2017

How to install and configure GUI and OMS on Azure RHEL Linux VM.

I decided to write this blog post because I struggled to find one myself on the internet on how to...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 02/19/2017

How to make azure file shares persistent and How can you map it to local sub folders?

Hi everyone,  most of you already found this base article on how to make Azure file shares...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 05/24/2016

How to delete Azure Resource Groups that doesn't have any resources in them?

It's been a long time since I wrote posts here, I apologize for this - work load :). I've just...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 01/18/2016

How to enable Desktop Experience and enable RDP for a CentOs 7 VM on Microsoft Azure

[bing_translator]Normally when you provision a Linux VM on Microsoft Azure, it's provisioned for you...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 01/05/2015

IN CASE OF A PROXY WHILE UPLOADING YOUR VHD TO WINDOWS AZURE USING POWERSHELL

Sometimes when you are trying to do certain process on Windows Azure via Powershell you receive an...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

Microsoft Azure White Papers in One Place :)

https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/other-resources/white-papers/

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO ALLOW PING FUNCTIONALITY TO WINDOWS AZURE MACHINES?

The Ping functionality on Windows Azure VM is blocked by default for security reasons, to be to...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO COPY YOUR VMS FROM ONE REGION TO ANOTHER REGION ON WINDOWS AZURE?

A lot of customers start by creating their Virtual machines on Windows Azure on any Datacenter they...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO CREATE HIGHLY AVAILABLE (LOAD BALANCED) FTP SERVER ON WINDOWS AZURE?

There are a lot of blog posts that explains how to create a FTP Server on Windows Azure, the best...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO SET YOUR AZURE SUBSCRIPTION AS DEFAULT USING POWERSHELL?

After you Import the Publish settings file , to know how to do this, check this post you first run...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO INSTALL MICROSOFT AX ON WINDOWS AZURE?

Microsoft AX (ERP) is one of the most popular ERPs, a lot of AX Customers wanted to host their AX...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO DEFINE AN ALERT ON WINDOWS AZURE TO MONITOR YOUR SERVICES?

  1. After you log on Azure management portal, click on Settings in the lower left corner, check the...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/13/2014

HOW TO UPLOAD FILES AND FOLDERS TO WINDOWS AZURE?

  1. First of all make sure that you have done the steps in this blog post. 2. Create a vhd on the...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014

VIRTUAL MACHINE AND CLOUD SERVICE SIZES FOR WINDOWS AZURE

If you are looking for more information around the VM sizes and IOPS on windows Azure then the below...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014

LIST OF THE OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED WORKLOADS ON WINDOWS AZURE

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672 The list is updated regularly with new supported workloads.

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014

HOW TO ADD AN EXISTING VIRTUAL MACHINE TO A NEW VIRTUAL NETWORK ON WINDOWS AZURE?

Sometimes you create a virtual machine without any intention of putting it on a Virtual Network...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014

HOW TO ESTABLISH A CONNECTION WITH YOUR WINDOWS AZURE SUBSCRIPTION VIA POWER SHELL? (STEP BY STEP GUIDE)

Before you start make sure that you’ve uploaded a self-signed certificate to your Windows...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014

HOW TO UPLOAD SELF SIGNED CERTIFICATE TO WINDOWS AZURE?

  1. Open VS20xx native tools command prompt as an administrator, you will see the following...

Author: Karim M. Moussa Date: 12/11/2014