Microsoft Azure Cloud Integration Engineering
(Compute, Cache, Storage, ACS, Service Bus, WebSites, VMs, SQL Azure, Data Sync, Import Export)
Caching on Windows Azure - Azure AppFabric Cache, Azure Cache Service, Managed Cache, Dedicated Cache, In-Role Cache, Co-located Cache, Shared Cache, Azure Role-based Cache - Clarifying the naming confusion
Recently I have worked on a few Cache issues with customers and one of the common pattern which came...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 03/05/2014
Monitor Service Bus Connection Status
A couple customers requested for sample code that would let them monitor the connection status of...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/28/2014
Send Messages from TopicClient to WCF Subscription Service
How to send Message to ServiceBus topic using TopicClient and receive it with WCF as Subscription...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/28/2014
Send Messages to Service Bus Queue from REST Clients
I've had customers come to me asking how to make interop scenario work in Service Bus Messaging. One...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/28/2014
Manage Service Bus Connectivity Mode
How do we manage Service Bus Connectivity Mode while hosting WCF Service with Service Bus Endpoints...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/28/2014
System.IO.FileNotFoundException running Windows Azure PowerShell command
I ran into this error using a fresh install of Windows Azure PowerShell (Version:0.7.3, February...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 02/27/2014
Change the retention days of the logs from the Management Portal for a Cloud Service (PAAS)
While testing a project for which I had configured diagnostics, I found that whenever I tried to...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/22/2014
How to use Custom Certificate for RDP to Windows Azure Roles
In case you don’t want to use the RDP certificate created by Windows Azure Tools and want to...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/22/2014
RDP Error on Web and Worker Roles (Windows Azure PAAS)
I was working with a developer who had requested assistance on an issue. We were required to RDP to...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/21/2014
Single Sign On with Windows Azure ACS using Visual Studio 2013 project templates
Visual Studio 2013 offers several authentication options for web applications as described in the...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 02/21/2014
Errors ID4175 and WIF10201 in context of ACS
The purpose of this blog to present a couple of error messages I ran into during setting up a Single...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 02/21/2014
How to use Windows Azure Monitoring Services Management Library to create an Autoscale Rule
Recently we released Windows Azure Monitoring Services Management Library 0.9.2-preview which is a...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 02/20/2014
Windows Azure Load Balancer TimeOut for Cloud Service Roles (PAAS Web/Worker)
My name is Angshuman Nayak and I am part of the Cloud Integration Engineering team at Microsoft. I...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/13/2014
The configuration section dataCacheClients’cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration
Hi all my name is Angshuman and I work with the Cloud Integration Engineering team at Microsoft. I...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 02/13/2014
Windows Azure Remote Debugging
Windows Azure SDK 2.2 release added support for remote debugging many types of Windows Azure...
Author: Anjana Mazumder MSFT Date: 01/24/2014
In-Role Cache Demystified
Abstract The purpose of this article is to explain some of the concepts on Windows Azure In-Role...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 01/10/2014
IIS Logs stops writing in cloud service
I was recently working on a case where the IIS logs stops writing on all Production boxes. There was...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 12/21/2013
One Instance of the Role Just Recycles After SDK Upgrade
I was recently working on a customer issue where one instance Instance 0 of the Role won’t...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 12/21/2013
ASP.NET Session state broken after migrating from Windows Azure shared Cache to Role Based Cache
Windows Azure Shared Cache feature is going to depreciate soon and right now Microsoft is not...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 12/06/2013
Windows Azure Worker Role Showing High CPU
I was recently troubleshooting an issue where a Worker Role was deployed on Windows Azure.The Role...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 11/28/2013
ACS: Identifying and Updating Expiring Certificates, Symmetric Keys and Passwords
Please view this Channel 9 video. ACSCertExpiry.zip
Author: Jagan Thangavelu Date: 11/26/2013
Service Bus Brokered Messaging: Unexpected Error Sending Messages Larger than 256K
When sending a message to a Azure Service Bus Brokered message queue or topic, with the .Net client...
Author: Jagan Thangavelu Date: 11/15/2013
Enable Server GC mode for your worker role
If you are using an Azure worker role that is memory intensive you may notice that the performance...
Author: Martin Grasruck (CIE) Date: 11/14/2013
Windows Azure Cache: Feature Comparison Matrix
Windows Azure offers three different Cache Offerings. 1. Cache Service Preview 2. In-Role Caching 3....
Author: Ashish Goyal Date: 11/13/2013
Multiple Domain Name to the same Cloud Service and SSL Certificates
So most probably you got the following error while browsing a cloudapp.net cloud service hosted in...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 11/11/2013
One Thing You Must Do When: Service Endpoint is showing Offline in Azure Traffic Manager
Recently I came across multiple scenarios where the Service endpoints were showing Offline/Degraded...
Author: Ashish Goyal Date: 11/08/2013
Compute Emulator: Invalid access to memory location
Symptom When running a Windows Azure project in Microsoft Visual Studio, you may encounter the...
Author: William Bellamy Date: 10/31/2013
Not able to upload Role after upgrading the SDK
I recently worked on an issue where the following error was being thrown while deploying the...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 10/31/2013
Users frequently redirected to Login Page of a WebApp on Windows Azure IAAS VMs or PAAS Cloud Service Roles
Recently I was working with my colleague Lalitesh on a very interesting issue. An ASP.NET MVC3 web...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 10/21/2013
WCF Worker Role Just Recycles on Windows Azure
I was recently working on a customer issue where the WCF Worker Role won’t come up. On the...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 10/19/2013
Unable to connect to Cache Service Endpoint due to port blockage
When an on-premises client tries to connect to the new Cache Service (Preview) endpoint it might...
Author: Anurag_Sharma Date: 10/18/2013
Storage Analytics Logging - How to Enable and Where to Find the logs.
Logging Overview Storage Analytics can log detailed information for authenticated requests and...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 10/10/2013
Join the Webinar - Introduction to Windows Azure Cache Service (Preview) on Sep 25, 2013 at 4:00 IST (UTC +5:30)
Topic: Introduction to Windows Azure Cache Service (Preview) Presented By: Anurag Sharma,...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 09/10/2013
Losing the Remote Desktop (RDP) connectivity with Cloud Services targeting Window Azure SDK 1.7/ SDK 1.8
In recent past I have noticed that, the customer’s who leveraging Windows Azure SDK 1.7 / SDK...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 09/07/2013
Join the Webinar - Caching the Windows Azure Way on Sep 3, 2013 at 3PM IST (UTC +5:30)
Topic: Caching the Windows Azure Way Presented By: Anurag Sharma, MicrosoftWhen: Sep 03, 2013 3:00 -...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 09/02/2013
Windows Azure: Roles Repetitively Starved of Ports
You just upgraded the OS family or in case you have auto upgrade on for Windows Azure there is a...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/26/2013
Troubleshooting Unreachable Cloud Service Issues - 1
Recently I was working on a very interesting case. My customer deployed his website on a Cloud...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 08/25/2013
Windows Azure Troubleshooting Videos
When something breaks, the easiest way to learn how to fix it is to watch a video. Windows Azure...
Author: William Bellamy Date: 08/23/2013
Windows Azure Cache installation from Nuget gets rolled back
Recently I came across this strange issue while trying to upgrade the Windows Azure Cache version...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/09/2013
Deploying Claims Aware Azure Applications using WIF
If you are deploying a claims aware application that uses Windows Identity Model whether first time...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/08/2013
ACS60021: The request has been terminated by the server (tenant exceeded rate limit)
In case you are using ACS aggressively sometime you may hit upon the following error. ACS60021: The...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 08/06/2013
x-ms-version and Azure Storage Services APIs
I have explained about x-ms-version in my previous post where I gave an example of Service...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 08/05/2013
What's the deal with x-ms-version?
x-ms-version is a HTTP header which is used in Service Management API calls to specify the version...
Author: Ravi Verma (MSFT) Date: 08/04/2013
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified
Could not load file or assembly exception for an Web/Worker Role hosted on Windows Azure PaaS...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 07/31/2013
Windows Azure Role instances status showing busy/unhealthy due to reuse of Process ID
In this blog I am planning to write a known issue with Windows Azure SDK component, which causing...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 07/30/2013
Windows Azure Role recycling due to setting more than 256 character in Environmental Variable through Azure Start-up task.
Couple weeks before, while investigation an issue related to Windows Azure Role recycling, I found...
Author: Pradeep Kumar C[MSFT] Date: 07/30/2013
Manage TimeZone for Applications on Windows Azure
I am writing this blog as a response to the number of issues I have seen where the PAAS VM might...
Author: Angshuman Nayak Date: 07/29/2013
Consuming Service Management API from Web/Worker Role – Method 2
In my previous post about the same topic I mentioned there are multiple ways to enable your...
Author: Ashish Goyal Date: 07/27/2013