Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration Engineering
(Compute, Cache, Storage, ACS, Service Bus, WebSites, VMs, SQL Azure, Data Sync, Import Export)
Azure Blob Storage operations with Storage Python SDK
This blog describes how to perform the basic operations on blobs using the Python API. We’ll be...
Date: 05/13/2017
How to fix Load Balancer not working in Round-robin fashion for your Cloud Service
Issue: I recently came across a case where customer has an issue that the Load balancer of his cloud...
Date: 04/19/2017
How to retrieve Job action settings of Scheduler Job using Powershell
Sometimes, we may have a requirement to retrieve the job action details of your scheduled job in the...
Date: 02/21/2017
How to reclaim your recently deleted ServiceBus namespace “name” instead 7 days wait time
When you have multiple subscriptions, sometimes you create namespace in some another subscription...
Date: 01/11/2017
How to add missing resource types in azure
Some of you may get this error "Handling the error 'The subscription ‘xxxxxx’ is not registered for...
Date: 01/11/2017
Troubleshooting: Azure Auto-scale profile does not change
Sometimes customers are faced with situation with Auto Scale, where they try to update or delete the...
Date: 01/03/2017
Can we use set-query-parameter policy inside send-request policy? -No
Several times you come across a situation where you should use send-request policy to make use of an...
Date: 01/02/2017
How to protect an API in Azure APIM using Azure Active Directory.
This article is intended to summarize a very common scenario where we would like to authenticate an...
Date: 12/14/2016
Detect backend api response latency using APIM policy
Recently I had a query from a developer asking is there a way to identify response time by backend...
Date: 12/01/2016
Azure Management Certificates and Publishing Setting file with CSP Subscriptions
In this post I will talk about a limitation of Azure CSP Subscriptions that makes users unable to...
Date: 11/28/2016
On deploying cloud service, users sometimes receives alerts notifying WAS has not been started
Problem: IIS fails to start, Throws the error : “The World Wide Web Publishing Service service...
Date: 11/23/2016
Cloud services are not available in this subscription
You recently got a permission for a given subscription on Azure and when you try to deploy a new...
Date: 07/05/2016
Cloud Services PaaS - Common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration
This article is intended to summarize a few common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration on...
Date: 05/20/2016
Using blob snapshots with PowerShell
Sometime ago, I had a customer who asked me the way to create a blob snapshot of an Azure VM. The...
Date: 05/17/2016
Azure Emulator Crash with error 0x800700b7: Cannot create a file when that file already exists
Sometimes when you are using Visual Studio and working on some Azure projects, you might hit an...
Date: 05/17/2016
Understanding CPU metric data from Azure Cloud Services.
In this article we will learn how to interpret the CPU metric in both the Azure Portal as well as in...
Date: 05/12/2016
Error “Access to the path ‘E:sitesroot�Web.config’ is denied” when storing Azure AD’s public key in Web.config of an Azure Cloud Services application.
I have worked on a scenario where a Web Role application which had been working fine for a long time...
Date: 01/15/2016
Webhooks for Azure Alerts - Creating a sample ASP.NET receiver application
Microsoft Azure recently announced support for webhooks on Azure Alerts. Now you can provide an...
Date: 11/02/2015
Automatically flushing DNS in Azure PaaS Cloud Services Instances
I have worked on a case where because a specific reason, it was needed to Flush DNS from the PaaS...
Date: 10/12/2015
Cloud Services roles recycling with the error “System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly”
You may be facing an issue where after a deploy, your Cloud Service role gets stuck in...
Date: 09/06/2015
Installing DebugDiag and importing rules thru Azure Cloud Services startup tasks
This article describes the steps for how to install DebugDiag version 2 update 1 on Cloud Services...
Date: 06/27/2015
The VM size (or combination of VM sizes) required by this deployment cannot be provisioned due to deployment request constraints
While trying to deploy a D-Series IaaS VM (could happen for A 8/A9 IaaS VMs as well) from the...
Date: 03/11/2015
Azure Storage Queue - Randomly Getting 403 Forbidden on delete of queue message with REST API
While developing an application that reads and deletes messages on an Azure storage Queue...
Date: 02/25/2015
Not Able to Delete Storage Account - Ensure these image(s) and/or disk(s) are removed before deleting this storage account
While deleting an Azure Storage Account you might come across the following error. Storage account...
Date: 02/18/2015
Troubleshooting Scenario - High CPU usage on PaaS Roles with the same load after a running for a few hours
I had this interesting issue reported where the instance count would increase from 10 to 50...
Date: 02/17/2015
Azure Service Bus AMQP Using Java SDK : Peer did not create remote endpoint for link, target: amqp_queue
While setting up an Azure Service Bus AMQP Java project in Eclipse by following the code from...
Date: 02/15/2015
Monitoring blade in the New Portal showing 'Monitoring may not be enabled. Click here to turn on Diagnostic' for the Azure Services
Recently, it is noticed that Azure new Portal is not displaying the matrices data for the...
Date: 02/12/2015
Microsoft Azure Cloud Services scheduled maintenance - Disable SSL V3.0 - Start on 19th Jan 2015 : How will I know if I am affected? How can I prevent it ? How should I plan for updates?
Everything in here is for PaaS Cloud Service and may not necessarily apply to IaaS VMs. The January...
Date: 01/16/2015
Issue related to sign in while accessing Microsoft Azure resources from Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
In recent past we have noticed that few customers complaining about sign in, while attempting...
Date: 01/08/2015
Unable to Create Topic/Queues within Service Bus with Java SDK
You have been trying to create a Topic within Service Bus, by following the documentation at...
Date: 12/23/2014
Upcoming removal of earlier versions of Azure Storage Service APIs - How do I know if my code that uses Azure Storage is to be affected by upcoming API versions removal in December 2015?
Hi my name is Angshuman Nayak, I belong to the Cloud Integration Engineering (CIE) Team and...
Date: 12/16/2014
Collecting diagnostic information from Azure management portal when an error occurs
Many a times you see errors on Azure management portal while doing an operation. Most of the...
Date: 10/29/2014
Service Bus namespace creation on portal no longer has ACS connection string
As per this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn170478.aspx we have both ways of...
Date: 08/29/2014
Reverse DNS for Azure Cloud Services using Service Management API
The Azure Networking team has got the Reverse DNS feature out.This article...
Date: 08/07/2014
RDP failures on recycling role
Many times we want to login to an Azure VM when the role is recycling so that we can troubleshoot...
Date: 06/19/2014
New-AzureStorageShare : The remote name could not be resolved: 'fileservices.file.core.windows.net' / I created a new storage account but don't see the file service on the portal
Recently I helped a customer on an issue where they were following instructions at...
Date: 06/06/2014
Step-by-Step Instruction for creating Managed Cache Namespace Using Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets
Currently the ability to create Azure Managed Cache Service Namespace from Portal is disabled,...
Date: 05/15/2014
How to Connect to Managed Cache Service using the code and not with typical way of configuration?
Here's a sample code to connect to Managed Cache Service, which we typically connect using Cache...
Date: 05/07/2014
Cache retry fails .. what next ??
When using In-Role Cache or Cache Service applications may get retry’ble error such as below...
Date: 04/29/2014
System.Net/WCF Diagnostics SDP
System.Net/WCF Diagnostics SDP package helps us with the ability to enable and collect logs for...
Date: 04/28/2014
Connections To Azure Role Not Getting Load Balanced Between Instances
Lot of times during testing a Cloud Service Role deployed on Microsoft Azure, users feel that the...
Date: 03/31/2014
Join online Webinar - Introduction to Microsoft Azure Autoscale (Preview) on April 1st at 3:30 pm IST GMT+5:30
Topic: Introduction to Microsoft Azure Autoscale (Preview) Presented By: Anurag Sharma,...
Date: 03/30/2014
Custom Hostname For Windows Azure PAAS Virtual Machines
If we remote desktop to an Azure Instance for a PAAS role and look at the hostname we see something...
Date: 03/30/2014
How to Reduce Bills (Save $) For Your Applications Deployed On Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Azure VMs continue to be billed if they're shutdown from within the virtual machine. In Azure...
Date: 03/30/2014
“Encountered unexpected character 'ï'” error serializing JSON
When trying to deserialize JSON-encoded data from a file using the DataContractJsonSerializer, you...
Date: 03/19/2014
Windows Azure In-Role Cache Error "ErrorCode:SubStatus:The DataCacheLockHandle passed is invalid" - ASP.Net Session State Management
Symptoms: You could run into below exceptions when using Windows Azure In-Role Cache as the store...
Date: 03/10/2014
Windows Azure In-Role Cache: Diagnostics Data Collection
If you are running into any issues with In-Role (Role-based) Windows Azure Cache, you can have the...
Date: 03/07/2014