Questions tagged [azure]
Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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Planning an Azure eco-system
What is the recommended way to set up Azure for an eco-system of services and sites?
We have a set of .Net web services and and ASP.Net web sites that are working fine on our test server. The web ...
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Is Azure's Virtual Network similar to SSLVPN?
I've been asked to set up Azure's Virtual Network, and that requires me to install some kind of software on each host within my network.
Does anyone have technical details on how the Azure Virtual ...
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Can IIS (Ideally Azure) do SSL Proxying?
My team has been asked to add a new feature to a project we're working on, and none of can find authoritative details on whether it's possible with Windows/IIS.
The short of it is that we're hoping ...
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How to setup a domain that doesn't use www prefix on Azure/EC2
Suppose I have a domain, foo.com where I have a series of pages like foo.com/123 and foo.com/456 etc. I want to use the domain and provide links without a www prefix. These pages also will have ...
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How do I access the Windows Event Logs on a server instance in Azure Cloud Services?
Can the Event Logs be accessed in Windows Azure for a deployment with multiple instances using Azure Cloud Services? It would be able to view the event logs of each server instance if necessary. The "...
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How do I setup sending emails from Windows Azure through my company server?
In my Windows Azure web role I need to send emails. Looks like one of the options is to use my company SMTP server. I asked our admins - they say I have to join the Azure role into our corporate VPN ...
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How do I access the Windows Azure management portal from Ubuntu?
I have only Ubuntu and Debian machines in my office. I’ve registered for the Windows Azure platform and tried to enter their management portal, but it requires Microsoft Silverlight.
I’ve tried ...
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Is it possible to run a local SQL Azure instance?
I'm developing/testing a .NET application which needs to access a live SQL Azure instance. (Yes, it has to be an Azure instance, because it's using code that's specific to Azure, not just SqlClient ...
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Create alert notification system for performance counters (logman, task scheduler, events)
I have a Windows Server 2008 SP2 without a graphical user interface (Windows Azure).
I need to setup an alert for performance counters that reaches some threshold and then run some command (send an ...
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Windows Azure - My management certificate has no thumbprint, why?
Looking in the Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN, under Management Certificates, I see my one Subscription and the Subscription ID, but the Thumbprint is blank. I need the thumbprint in ...
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Windows Azure DNS solution
I'm considering using a DNS solution to solve the issue with elastic IPs for Windows Azure roles. This blog post describes how to have both example.com and www.example.com point to an azure role such ...
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Windows Azure and GoDaddy problem
I am having a problem getting my CNAME and A records right.
Assumptions:
Azure Name : MyApplication.cloudapp.net
GoDaddy DomainName : MyDomain.com
I want both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com to ...
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How do we over come the CNAME restrictions?
Windows Azure uses elastic IPs. This means that the only way to map hostnames to Azure is to use CNAMES. The RFC is preventing us from doing this with the root of the domains.
mycooldomain.com IN ...
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Is EU hosted Azure data safe from the patriot act? [closed]
I read recently some news about how MS will have to hand over data to the US government if they asked for it. ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/04/...
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xmpp server in Azure
I have a need to host an XMPP server in the cloud, essentially for chat, but other possibilities in the future.
I have just a couple of questions:
1) I need to install the XMPP server via a command ...
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1&1 hosting + azure cname + google apps mx
I have a problem while hosting my website on azure :
I need to have an url mydomain.com, when deploying in azure it gives the url mydomain.cloudapp.net, so I do a cname record from mydomain.com to map ...
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Restoring SQL Server backup to SQL Azure on SQL Management Studio
I am using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 to connect my SQL Azure account. I have had no problems connecting to the database.
However, when I tried to backup existing database from my ...
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best cloud computing company for webhosting business [closed]
I'm running a reseller business. but now I have plans to expand it to the clouds. can you suggest some economical options for the same. most of them would be running wordpress and joomla. as far as I ...
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Azure platform install
Can we install a version of azure locally? In other words, can we manage an independent azure cloud? I am using the emulator. But I want a real azure system.
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Please clarify about Azure Connect for AD-integration?
Windows Azure now offers Virtual Machine hosting similar to IaaS solutions. One of the associated services is something called Azure Connect so that your VM can access on-premise resources (in your ...
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domain trust with azure connect
I have a server running in the azure cloud. The server is a DC and i'm trying to make a domain trust with my local domaincontroller Server. The servers are linked with windows azure connect (ipsec). ...
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Simple command line storage tools for Azure Storage (like s3cmd, sdbShell)?
I'm currently backing up/migrating Amazon S3 and SimpleDB data from AWS to my on premise systems using sdbShell and s3cmd. Works great.
Now we're putting an app up on Microsoft Azure and I want to ...
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Avoiding overage charges on Windows Azure?
I've got an MSDN subscription; I'd like to play with Windows Azure; I don't particularly want to pay (more) for it. I'm not looking for 5-nines uptime.
Is there any way to avoid being Slashdotted ...
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Why do I need to create a SQL Azure server before creating a SQL Azure database?
I am starting to explore Microsoft's SQL Azure service. After reading the SQL Azure documentation, I thought that the SQL Azure service offered a way to get one or more MS SQL databases on a server ...
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A scalable solution to multi-tenant Urls in IIS
We have developed a multi-tenant ASP.NET application. When a customer registers, they get their own subdomain to use for their site (e.g. tenant1.ourapp.com).
The process of setting up the customer's ...
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EC2 v S3 v Azure
I mainly want to find out what is the difference between Amazon S3, EC2 and Windows Azure. Also how does S3 and Azure work, I already know what EC2 is but not the others.
Also what's the connection ...
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What is Windows Azure's equivalent of Amazon AWS EC2?
Does anyone know the equivalent of Amazon EC2 in Windows Azure?
Thinking of moving to Azure but we are not looking into rewriting the .NET application, also we do need private VPN to our office. Is ...
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Details on Windows Azure R2 Webrole: Files, Drives, and MSFT-scripts
I'm using Remote Desktop to connect to an Azure Instance and I noticed the following for an extra-small instance of Windows 2008R2:
C:\ Drive for the purpose of storing
log data. 13.6GB / 19.9GB ...
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Can Azure host ColdFusion?
A friend has a site developed in ColdFusion with MySQL and is looking for better cost-effective hosting as the traffic scales up rapidly. Azure comes to mind.
I haven't used Azure myself, however, I ...
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Is Sql Azure useful without windows azure?
I am currently doing some research to get some preliminary IT cost projections for a project, and I was looking at Azure. Since this is a startup, I do not want to deal with the IT operations myself ...
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Using multiple PaaS Vendors
I am developing a SaaS App, and I want to decide for a PaaS Vendor. Since one of my biggest concerns is uptime, is there an application or service, that allows me to use several PaaS Vendors (like ...
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Migrate from SQLAzure
I was wondering if there were any resources available that provide information on Migrating a Database and its schema / data out of SQL Azure and back to a nice cozy sql server
Thanks
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Unclear pricing of Windows Azure [closed]
How do you people think about the Windows Azure pricing model and the way it is presented to the user? I just found out that Azure keeps charging hours for STOPPED instances. I just received a bill ...
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Can I replicate data between mySQL and SQL Server/SQL Azure?
I have a replicated mySQL setup running happily on Amazon AWS, making user data available locally in various regions. Now I'm faced with an app that needs to go up on Microsoft Azure and I need to ...
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How can I get just the site name from the "AppCmd.exe list site" command?
If I run the following command on my server:
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd.exe list site
I get this output:
SITE "MyCompany.MyProject.WebRole_IN_0_Web" (id:1273337555,bindings:https/555.555.555....
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Azure cloud app subdomain pointing to actual domain
Say we have a domain xyz.com registered with some registrar ... we pointed that domain to the name server of our dedicated server where the DNS will be hosted for that domain.
Now, we just want that ...
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Is the data in SQL Azure safe?
I am new to cloud computing. I don't know whether my question is correct.
I have an application which has sensitive data. Suppose I had to move the database to the cloud. Is the data in the database ...
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Linux & Windows Boot Up Times in Amazon Web Service and Windows Azure
I've been working with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 for a good many months now (almost getting to the years range) and I've seen something over and over that seems troubling.
With AWS &...
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Can I put a budget on a Windows Azure account?
I'm organising Windows Azure training and need to prepare a budget for such a course. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a way to limit the number of running instances, usage of the different ...
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Possible to install a windows service on azure?
On the azure site they write about your application being run in a window server environment and that you should be able to run anything that you normally can on a window server.
So is it possible to ...
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hosting on godaddy, GoogleApps and MSAzure
We are looking to host for a startup with the following configuration
a) domain using GoDaddy as registrar
b) use google apps- mail, calendar, docs- email attraction also because we can integrate ...
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Can I host my blog in Windows Azure? [closed]
I would like to migrate my Wordpress blog to something hosted in Windows Azure. I currently pay $125 a year for hosting and would like to bring that cost down. I looked around and found this post that ...
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Is customer data in SQL Azure safe?
We're looking into the idea of moving an ASP.NET MVC app into Windows Azure, but I'm interested to hear if SQL Azure is safe enough for me to store customer data, such as their home addresses, etc.
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No Event Logs in Diagnostic on Windows Azure?
I'm trying to get .NET Remoting to work on Windows Azure, with a web role. I get a 500 internal server error when trying to access the URL. I've tried using Azure MMC (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/...
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Hosting wildcard domains such as *.mydomain.com on Windows Azure without using redirections
I have an ASP.NET MVC app which offers wildcard domains to my users to personalize their login urls.
I'd like to host this on Windows Azure. But is it possible to keep the wildcard domains?
I've ...
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Why should we consider Azure?
It seems like Azure is getting a lot of buzz lately, but it's doesn't seems to make sense for us. Here are our basic details
Primarily .NET/Microsoft
Primarily intranet
applications, but also have ...
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Is it possible to have a Git repo in Windows Azure?
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a Git repo hosted on Windows Azure?
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What is a Windows Azure Compute Hour? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
According to pricing details on the Microsoft Windows Azure website, compute hours cost 12 cents each, but what are they?
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com? [closed]
I had asked this question on StackOverflow. It was suggested to post it here too.
When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?
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