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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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Migrate user accounts from Azure AD to on-premise AD?

My company uses Office 365 for Exchange, SharePoint, Lync etc. including the build-in user administration via Azure Active Directory. Now we want to switch to a local AD on a Windows Server. It shall ...
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Can I use Office365 or Azure AD as master record for Active Directory?

We have a small business and currently don't have a need for a domain within our office. We have a basic network and a single server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with some file shares and 3rd party ...
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Do Azure VMs have disk I/O limits?

We have a SQL server hosted on an Azure VM. One of our applications is very read\write intensive on the database and we're seeing poor disk performance. Disk queue lengths of 10 or greater. I've ...
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Error adding child Active Directory domain to existing forest

I'm building a test environment containing multiple Active Directory domains in the same forest, but I'm having strange issues while trying to add a child domain to the forest root domain. All ...
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Azure IO performance

We have a number of Windows Server virtual machines that we use for .NET and Java development and QA. I find Azure attractive for the obvious reasons but mainly for the opportunity to reduce non-...
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Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports?

I created one Nginx with one Linux Azure VM, is it possible to make nginx listen to different ports so that when I change the port number, the content would be different. I found there would be a ...
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Azure closing idle network connections

I'm running a proprietary client/server application on a single instance windows server 2k8R2 azure VM. The client is very dependent on a connection with the server. However if I spend a couple of ...
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Microsoft Azure Backup - Where are the Logs?

We are using Microsoft Azure Backup to backup our server. Our backup is passing on 4 out of 5 drives, but consistently failing on the one. All that the Microsoft Azure GUI agent tells me though is ...
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Adding a public IPv6 address to a Linux VM in Azure

I have a Centos7 VM instance running in Azure. It has a public IPv4 address reachable from the internet. I would like to add a public IPv6 address to this instance's network interface but I cannot ...
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How can I stop Azure from randomly replacing network cards on VMs?

Azure seems to have the habit of randomly changing the hardware configuration of virtual machines, without telling anything to the user. This is of course mentioned in the documentation, although ...
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Investigate potential breach in Azure App Service

We suspect we have had a data breach, but we are not sure how to investigate it to determine the source of the breach or what data was sent. We have an app service that has been running for a while ...
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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 to configure routing between Azure virtual networks?

I'm designing an Azure environment which will contain multiple virtual networks, and a requirement is for all networks to be connected; a VM in any network should be able to talk to another VM in any ...
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Is it possible to create a VPN link between AZURE VNET and AWS VPC?

As I found solutions on making site-to-site VPN between Azure and AWS using a software VPN server, I'm asking myself if it's possible to connect the VPN gateways (Azure VNET / AWS VPC) directly. Is ...
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Unable to configure port mapping for Azure availability set in the new portal

Where is the option to configure port mappings in the new Microsoft Azure portal (http://portal.azure.com)?
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Azure DNS does not lookup SPF policies for certain domains

I run my own mail server on an Azure Linux VM with Postfix. Since I was under heavy spam attack I reinforced my mail server security measures. Without going into the security things, today I noticed ...
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How to mount NFS share on Azure Container Instances

I'm registered for the Azure Files NFSv4 preview, and I cannot seem to find a way to mount NFS file shares on ACI. I have tried the following: Created a virtual network in eastus with two subnets, ...
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Azure RM NSG Port Forwarding Not Working

I have a Debian 6.x box that I needed to move to Azure. Before moving it up, I did make sure that SSH is listening on any port, so is Apache. My NSG has all of the right ports opened (22, 443 for ...
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Terrible performances using a remote Azure SQL Database

We're currently evaluating Azure's SQL Database service (vs local installation) because we would like to have the "Always Encrypted" feature integrated in our (java-based) application. Problem is, ...
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Azure point-to-site VPN assign static IP

I'm connecting a single server at Site 1 with my Azure virtual network (10.1.0.0/24) via a Point-To-Site VPN connection (192.168.11.0/24). The problem is that each time the connection drops and is ...
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How to get list of azure container images which are affected after security scans?

I know how to get repositories, we can use az acr repository list --name myregistry. But, how to get repositories with tags that are having security/vulnerability issues after security scans using ...
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Can I replace my domain controller with Azure Active Directory? [duplicate]

I currently have a small network with a few servers and about 25 client PCs. We are using Office365 and have AD synchronisation setup from our on-premise server. We also have single-sign-on setup ...
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How to identify the cause of 100% CPU usage in Azure App Service?

I have five apps in an Azure App Service Plan, all different copies of the same app for different clients. It's an ASP.NET MVC app with an SQL database. This morning I woke up to slow and non-...
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Kubernetes v1.24.3 upgrade broke ingress-nginx

After upgrading our AKS kubernetes cluster to from v1.23.8 to v1.24.3 our ingress stopped working properly. No errors logged in events and the ingress-nginx pod does not report any errors on the ...
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SNI and wildcard SSL certificates on the same server with IIS

I'd like to host a website that should listen to subdomains (e.g. sub.domain.com) together with multiple websites that live just under a second-level domain (e.g. domain2.com, domain3.com) with IIS ...
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Slow disk performance on Azure Virtual Machine

Okay, so first of all, allow me to say that I'm not an operations person, but a developer. So I'm going into a bit of unknown land here, so please bear with me. I would like to use a Azure Virtual ...
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Azure Powershell - Change Directory

When I login to the new Azure Portal I see a drop-down at the top right that lets me select a "Directory" from a list of 2. When I login to azure using powershell cmdlet "Login-AzureRmAccount" I am ...
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Why do you need the awverify CNAME record for Azure?

See i.e.: How to set up CNAME to point to Azure or the text within the azure portal: Why is this necessary in the first place? Why does pointing the domain name through an A record not prove that I ...
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Gracefully take a server out of Azure Load Balancer (drain stop)

We have an application deployed to Azure IaaS VMs, served by IIS. In order to install updates, we need to take each machine out of the load balancer, one by one. Before moving to Azure, we were using ...
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Logging in with local admin account after joining domain

I was under the impression that once you joined a domain that the local admin account would be disabled. I did the following in Azure: Created Windows Server 2012 R2 instance and promoted to domain ...
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Setting up DNS within an Azure Virtual Network

I have a few Cloud Services, and a VM running Redis in Azure. From what I understand I need to create a Virtual Network so the cloud services can communicate to Redis on the VM. That was easy. Now ...
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Outbound Packets Dropping / Timeouts - Only with Azure

I have an issue with packets dropping to a third party data center in Florida, USA. The issue only occurs on Azure Virtual Machines, no matter which data center the VM is in. I've done the same tests ...
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Using Windows Azure storage for backup

I am currently looking at Windows Azure blobs as an option for backing up archive data. I want to be able to upload files from an external windows machine via the internet but I don't know enough ...
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Where are my Azure Temp Files?

I have a raygun error on an Azure Web App that baffles me. d:\local\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\8c572dab\d52156ac\ App_Web_636035960914530576dbc451921d-d5ba-4ab9-ae23- 3aebe17a2fcd.cshtml.ae8ccf29....
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Domain Ownership error. No CNAME records were found. Please add a CNAME record pointing to myapp.azurewebsites.net

I am trying to set up the urls https://www.mywebsite.net.au and https://mywebsite.net.au to work for my Azure App Service using with Cloudflare. Where mywebsite represents my web site name. ...
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Azure Web App (Linux): “Error: Container didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080” - when using: “start”: “pm2 start server.js”

My App Service Linux instance crashes if my node app is using the start script: "start": "pm2 start server.js": 2019-04-15 11:36:34.432 ERROR - Container crime-digest__6ea5_0 for site crime-...
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Azure Point-to-Site VPN but no DNS

I've got: an Azure Virtual Network, an Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller on that network, a Point-to-Site VPN set up for that network all the way so that I can connect to it from my local ...
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How to wait for network in a batch script when booting on Windows Server?

I'm executing a batch file with TaskScheduler "At system startup" on a Windows Server 2012 in Azure, and I observed that there's no network for 20-60 seconds after the start of the batch. Currently I ...
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How to stop time synchronization on an Azure VM

I'm trying to simulate a different date/time on an Azure VM but the time keeps resetting itself to the current date/time. Is there a way to force the server to stay at a specific date/time until I ...
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Can I add a second network adapter to my Azure VM?

I have Multiple VM's on Windows Azure. Default, they come with 1 network adapter and you can only assign 1 virtual network (Availability Set) My question is : possible to connect 1 VM to more then 1 ...
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How to avoid the prompt “Do you want to find PCs, devices, and content”?

When a Windows Server (2012 or -R2) comes back from Stopped+Deallocated state in Azure, the “Do you want to find PCs, devices, and content on this network, and automatically connect to devices like ...
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How to move VM to a new Virtual Network in Azure Portal

Can someone let me know how to move a VM from one Virtual Network to another. In the image, I would like to move the VM webtestnic-backend-.... from Virtual network 'webtestvnet-arrmb7u3eu35o to my ...
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Windows 2016 Server on site domain join with Azure AD

My company has their entire user/group architecture in the cloud using Azure. We recently purchased a Windows 2016 Server machine and I have been asked to set it up so that we can use our Azure ...
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Monitoring HTTP 5xx errors in an Azure App Service

The Azure App service UI used to have an ability to inspect 5xx errors directly. Since we starting using Azure, the UI has been changing almost constantly though, and this ability seems to have ...
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Pull Office 365 Users to Active Directory

I am currently working with an existing Office 365 subscription that needs to have a new instance of Windows Server 2012 R2 in Azure manage the users through Active Directory. The server 2012 VM is ...
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Recreate Azure virtual machine from existing and working disk

This morning I found that my Azure VM was dead dead. It was impossible for me to reboot or shut it down. Anyway I managed to delete the VM instance and make a snapshot copy of the VHD (who never ...
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How to set up CNAME to point to Azure

Here's the story. I have an application on azure. I would like to set up an A-record. My main domain is myhost.dk and my azure adress is myhost.azurewebsites.net. The Azure guide says that I have to ...
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Performance azure disks, high average queue length

I'm having a classic developer-system admin battle where I am stating that there is an IO problem on the disk of the shared sql server while the system admin tells me that the capacity hasn't been ...
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Access Installation Disc from Azure-hosted Windows Server 2012 R2 VM

I'm setting up an ADFS farm in Windows Azure and I need to export the settings of my old farm to import to the new farm. The official documentation on TechNet tells me to use scripts that are located ...
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Azure Storage Explorer: Error "ENOTFOUND" -- how to solve?

I use Azure blob storage for downloadable files. It works great, but I am forced to use a commercial tool to upload files. Below shows how azure cloud explorer chokes, where the commercial azure ...
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