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Windows Azure Virtual Machine restarted with out any notification
An unexpected restart of an Azure VM is an issue that commonly results in a customer opening a...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2013
Configure Remote Desktop via management portal for Windows Azure Cloud Services
Windows Azure now allows users to configure, enable remote desktop for cloud services via management...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 07/19/2013
[CrossPost] TechNet Radio: (Part 2) Windows Azure Virtual Machine FAQs
I recently had opportunity to speak at a TechNet Radio session about Windows Azure Virtual Machines...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 04/08/2013
Security Best Practices for Windows Azure
Security is an very important aspect when it comes to computers and it should be at the top of...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2013
Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Gotcha’s!
This blog post is an attempt to summarize most common issues we’ve seen Windows Azure Virtual...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2013
Windows Azure Virtual Machine disappeared or gone , How do I recover?
We often hear from our Windows Azure customers who are using new preview feature “Windows...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2012
Windows Azure Package creation (or Publish) fails with “Build Failed” message in Visual studio output window
Action Tried to publish Windows Azure Service using Publish option in Visual Studio or Tried to...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2012
DataCacheException:ErrorCode:SubStatus is being thrown when using Windows Azure Cache
Problem Application using Windows Azure Cache has encountered...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2012
DevFC and DFAgent stopped working when using Windows Azure SDK 1.6 to debug, execute cloud application
Problem DevFC , DFAgent are crashing with a message stating "stopped working" Symptoms Using latest...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 02/21/2012
Implementing retry logic for Azure Caching applications made easy!
Applications using Azure cache might commonly encounter exceptions similar to below while performing...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 12/29/2011
Microsoft.ServiceBus.AuthorizationFailedException was unhandled
Problem Recently, i have come across "Microsoft.ServiceBus.AuthorizationFailedException" exception...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 12/26/2011
Azure: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond x.x.x.x:x"
Problem Azure application has code that talks to Storage services/AppFabric services/SQL Azure is...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 12/21/2011
How to: Configure client-side tracing for Azure cache applications, view traces
To troubleshoot Azure cache related problems, it is often required to capture client side traces for...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2011
HowTo:Configure SSL(https) for specific page(s) while hosting the application in Windows Azure
When hosting web applications in Windows Azure, developers have an option to configure endpoints...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2011
Unable to connect to one(or few) of the Windows Azure role instnaces using remote desktop (RDP) option
I have recently come across an issue, where Azure users are trying to remotely connect to one of the...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2011
Improve performance of static content like javascript, text, MS office documents(doc,xls,ppt), cs and html files in Windows Azure
Static compression is the feature that is shipped out of the box in IIS. Using static compression,...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2011
"Your credentials did not work" error when connecting to Windows Azure VM's
Below specified is the error that might occur while connecting to Windows Azure VM’s via...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2011
How to add registry entries to VM’s running in Windows Azure
One of the common asks from developers is the ability to write to registry in Windows Azure. Startup...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2011
System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException while running SQL Azure Data Sync Agent
Symptoms You might run into one of the two exceptions below while using SQL Azure Data Sync Agent...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2011
IP Range for Windows Azure Platform, Identifying connectivity issues
I often come across this question by various customers using Windows Azure Platform. “What is...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2011
Session state provider for Azure AppFabric Cache with useBlobMode=false results in error "Key referred to does not exist"
Problem If you are using Session state provider (Windows Azure AppFabric) and configure...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2011
Error Creating New Deployment in Windows Azure
Problem: When you try to deploy Windows Azure service via Windows Azure Portal you might encounter...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2011
Windows Azure roles stuck in Busy state when startup-task is added
With the introduction of SDK 1.3, developers started using start-up tasks quite a bit and often run...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 03/17/2011
How to Enable VM Role(beta) for your subscription in Windows Azure
Latest Windows Azure SDK, i.e SDK 1.3 allows developers to create VM instance of Windows Server 2008...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2010
How to connect to VM using Remote Desktop(RDP) on Windows Azure (Cloud)
Starting from Windows Azure SDK 1.3, customers can connect to their VM’s on the cloud. Below...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2010
MSDTC was unable to read its configuration information. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004D027)
I worked on interesting MSDTC issue today that i would like to share here. Problem Description When...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 07/21/2010
System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.
My customer tried to run a pre compiled web application and he gets the following exception Security...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2010
How to configure SPN for IIS website under NLB setup
I ran into this Kerberos issue a few times and it prompted me to write this blog post. Symptoms You...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 11/28/2009
"8004E00F - COM+ was unable to talk to Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator" - MSDTC on a CCR cluster (Cluster Continuous Replication)
I ran into rather interesting issue yesterday while trying to configure MSDTC on a CCR cluster and...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 11/24/2009
"Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high" in .NET 3.5 sp1
Error : Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high (Type: System.InvalidOperationException)...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2009
Unable to deploy the MSI Application that contains WCF bindings to BizTalk
I have seen few customers running into this issue. This forced me to write this blog. Background: On...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2009
When using DirectoryServices to access "IIS://" Schema IIS6 Management compatibility pack needs to be installed (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80005000))
When you try to access IIS 7 metabase using System.DirectoryServices (or ADSI providers) you...
Author: Narahari Dogiparthi [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2009