Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration Engineering
(Compute, Cache, Storage, ACS, Service Bus, WebSites, VMs, SQL Azure, Data Sync, Import Export)
Consuming Service Management API from Web/Worker Role
It is not un-common to have the need of enabling your Web Role / Worker Role to consume the Azure...
Author: Ashish Goyal Date: 07/22/2013
Service Bus Error: The maximum entity size has been reached or exceeded for Topic
One of my customer suddenly started seeing the following error message:...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 07/21/2013
Delegation Object report “ACS90013: Object exceeded its maximum length”
In case ACS 2.0 is being implemented and following code is used to create a Delegation object for...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 07/19/2013
Join the Webinar - Windows Azure Diagnostics - Logging and Monitoring in the Cloud on August 6th at 3PM IST (UTC +5:30)
Topic: Windows Azure Diagnostics - Logging and Monitoring in the Cloud Presented By: Pradeep Kumar...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 07/15/2013
Error - The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net, OU=WindowsAzure, O=Microsoft, L=Redmond, S=WA, C=US chain building failed. The certificate that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified.
Recently I was dealing with a case where we were using Service Bus (Azure SDK 1.6) and experiencing...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 07/13/2013
How to install IIS Modules for your Azure Cloud Service
Recently I was working with one of my customers where he using IIS IP Security module for a Cloud...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 07/11/2013
Error “Request for principal permission failed.” while implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in a Claims-Aware ASP.NET Application Using WIF and ACS
I was following the article How to: Implement Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in a Claims-Aware...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 06/21/2013
ID1113: The ACS service namespace: ‘’ and management key combination is invalid
In Visual Studio 2012 when you configure ACS reference via “Identity and Access” for...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 06/21/2013
[DataCacheException: ErrorCode:SubStatus
I have noticed that several Windows Azure developer’s hitting below mentioned error message,...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 06/11/2013
Unable to download.publishsettings from windows.azure.com …. The file could not be written to the cache
If you see below error while trying to download the publishsetting file from...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 06/10/2013
The specified configuration settings for Settings are invalid. Verify that the service configuration file is a valid XML file, and that role instance counts are specified as positive integers.
You upload a package and configuration file to Windows Azure Management Portal either to...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 06/07/2013
A quick clarification on HYBRID connectivity mode in Windows Azure Service Bus
When you use Service Bus in Windows Azure, you can choose a no. of bindings among which one is...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 05/31/2013
How to set Shared Access Signatures for Storage that takes immediate effect
Issue While working on a recent issue for one of our customers we came across the following error....
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 05/30/2013
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.StorageException: Unexpected response code for operation ....
At times you would get errors such as below while executing batch transactions on a table in table...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 05/30/2013
WADLogsTable spammed with ‘WARNING: <DistributedCache.ClientMemoryMonitor> Virtual Bytes ……..’
In recent past, We have noticed that, Windows Azure end users, who leveraging Windows Azure...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 05/30/2013
Windows Azure Cache - Pessimistic Concurrency Model
In this model, client application acquires a lock before performing the operations. In order to...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 05/18/2013
Session State Management in Windows Azure Web Roles
One of the frequent questions that developers and customers ask me during my Windows Azure related...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 05/17/2013
Join the Live Event about Diagnostics Changes in Windows Azure SDK 2.0 on May 15th at 4PM IST (UTC +5:30)
You are invited to an hour long session on Diagnostics Changes in Windows Azure SDK 2.0. Here is the...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 05/14/2013
Windows Azure : ACS with ADFS2.0
Recently I was dealing with a case where the site say https://www.test.contoso.com/ which was...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 04/18/2013
Commonly reported issues while leveraging Windows Azure Diagnostic configurations and Best Practices
In recent past we have noticed several customers reported issues related to Diagnostic configuration...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 04/16/2013
Web Role with MVC4 Just Recycles on Windows Azure
Web Role with MVC4 Just Recycles on Windows Azure I was recently working on a customer issue where...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 04/04/2013
Access SQL Azure Data Using Java Script
I regularly access SQL Azure from my .Net code and once a while from Java or Ruby code. But I was...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 01/27/2013
A perpetual catch up game in the world of Azure
Things around the technology world come to a grinding halt around holiday season. But not in the...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 01/18/2013