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Windows Azure, Windows 8, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Hadoop: All together at one place.. One problem, One solution at One time...
Now you can have total 25 roles, along with 25 internal and 25 external (total 50) Endpoints, in your Windows Azure Deployments
Windows Azure has increased the maximum number of roles allowed in a deployment from 5 to 25. This...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 09/02/2011
Windows Azure Table Storage returns "412 Precondition Failed" Error
Recently Windows Azure Table Storage access code which was working fine started giving the following...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 09/01/2011
Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Update (August 26) available
The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games also comes with a new proof-of-concept game called...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/29/2011
Windows Azure Table Storage: Problem occurred while inserting a certain record in a Table
Recently I found something very interesting while trying to insert a record in a table in my Windows...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/25/2011
Enabling WCF Tracing in Windows Azure WCF Web Role
When you create a Windows Azure WCF Web Role you will see that WCF tracking is disabled by default....
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/24/2011
Windows Azure: Avoiding WCF Service Throttling by increasing maximum concurrent connection count in WCF service Configuration
Recently I was working on a WCF based Application running in Windows Azure however this WCF service...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/23/2011
Create new Windows Azure Service and Get Deployment Info Sample Code using Windows Azure Service Management API
Here is C# sample code to access Windows Azure Services using Windows Azure Management API in C#. I...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/22/2011
Windows Azure Traffic Manager (WATM) and App Fabric Access Control Service (ACS)
Recently I was asked if Windows Azure App Fabric Access Control Service (ACS) works with Windows...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/19/2011
Windows Azure Traffic Manager and using your domain name CNAME Entry
With the release of Windows Azure Traffic Manager, Windows Azure users, can point their domains such...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/18/2011
Full Startup task based Tomcat/Java Worker Role Application for Windows Azure
This Windows Azure Tomcat Solution is designed in a way that you can update your Tomcat project...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/17/2011
A Command Line tool for downloading blob from Azure Storage and logging download completed back to Azure Storage
Time to time, I had to download blob from Windows Azure Storage for my Windows Azure Projects but so...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/16/2011
How to set Windows Azure Storage Provider for Commvault Enterprise Backup Solution
CommVault provides enterprise backup software, disk to disk backup, data protection, deduplication,...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/11/2011
How to setup IIS Application Pool for running Windows Azure App Fabric Application to pass Proxy Server settings
Recently I was working on an App Fabric Application which was connecting to App Fabric Service bus...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/09/2011
Windows Azure: Latest Update - Azure Tool Update, Storage Analytics, Training Kit Update and Fujitsu Azure
Windows Azure Storage Analytics - Logging & Metrics Windows Azure Storage Analytics feature adds...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/08/2011
Windows Azure and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 - Part 3/3 : Adding RDP Access to LightSwitch 2011 Application which is already deployed to Windows Azure
In this section we will learn how to add RDP access credentials to an already deployed LightSwitch...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/02/2011
Windows Azure and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 - Part 2/3 : Publishing LightSwitch Application to Windows Azure using LightSwitch Publish Wizard
In this section we will use the application "AzureLightSwitchWebRole" created in first part of this...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/02/2011
Windows Azure and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 - Part 1/3 : Creating Hello World Application in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 offers downloadable starter kits and flexible deployment options that...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/02/2011
Modifying RDP access settings in Windows Azure Role to reclaim one input endpoint?
All Windows Azure Role can have any type of internal endpoints. Internal endpoints are limited to 5...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/02/2011
How RDP works in Windows Azure Roles?
The way RDP works is that one of the roles (when you have multiple roles and instance) will have...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 08/01/2011
Programatically deleting older blobs in Windows Azure Storage
When you use Windows Azure Storage to dump your diagnostics data, it may possible that you have lots...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/29/2011
Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP - Service Bus Samples June 2011 CTP Update
Today Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Team updated a few new samples which includes JAVA and PHP...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/28/2011
Updated Windows Azure Management Portal
Recently Windows Azure team released updated Windows Azure Portal with following updates: 11...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Azure AppFabric July release
Windows Azure App Fabric Team has released updated version of Windows Azure App Fabric with...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/27/2011
Windows Azure Web Role: How to enable 32bit application mode in IIS Application Pool using Startup Task
It is very much possible that you may need to run 32 bit application inside Windows Azure Web role...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/14/2011
ACS Federation, Live ID, SAML 2.0 Support, and AppFabric Service Bus Connections Quota
In ACS v2 you can use Identity Provider integration i.e. Live, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. if we...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/13/2011
When you RDP to your Web Role you might not be able to access IIS log folder
When you log into your Windows Azure VM which has Windows Azure Web Role, you might have problem...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/12/2011
Windows Azure Web Role: Exception in SiteMapProvider Object (System.Web.UI.WebControls.SiteMapDataSource)
If you are using SiteMapProvider (SiteMap Provider) Object in your Windows Azure web role you might...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/11/2011
Windows Azure Worker Role Recycling due to an exception as "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds"
Recently I was working on an issue and found the worker role was keep recycling. After I logged into...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/08/2011
Windows Azure Package Deployment Failed with Error - "There was no endpoint listening at https://management.core.windows.net/"
In an recent issue, while trying to upload a new Windows Azure Package (CSPKG & CSCFG) to...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/08/2011
Latest Addition to Windows Azure: VIP for a given deployment will persist until that deployment is deleted
Throughout the lifetime of a deployment, the VIP assigned will not change, regardless of the...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/06/2011
What if "Access Denied or Not sufficient permission" error occurred while accessing Windows Azure Storage (Blob, Table or Queue)
Whenever you got "Access Denied" error with Windows Azure Storage via any kind of resources, while:...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/04/2011
Sharing Properties between Windows Azure Role Instances
Depend on what kind of information you would like to share you can choose different methods to share...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/02/2011
Windows Azure and UDP Traffic
As you may very well know, Windows Azure Web Role and Worker Role can have only HTTP/HTTPS/TCP type...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/02/2011
Windows Azure VM Role and Firewall
In VM Role, Windows Firewall programming is depend on the user. If you are developing VM Role Image,...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/02/2011
Windows Azure VM Role and SYSPREP
When someone prepare VHD for VM Role they might have the question if SYSPREP is really necessary or...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 07/01/2011
Windows Azure Web Role Error: "Faulting application WaHostBootstrapper.exe"
The Web Role was stuck as below: 6:09:56 PM - Preparing... 6:09:56 PM - Connecting... 6:09:59 PM -...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/29/2011
Windows Azure Connect: What if Integrator.log file is growing fast?
When you have VM role deployed with Windows Azure connect endpoint software is installed, you may...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/28/2011
Windows Azure App Fabric ACS v2 – Using Identify Provider i.e. Google, Yahoo, Open ID with your Windows Azure Application
ACS v2 comes with default Windows Live Passport support to add signing requirement for your...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/27/2011
LINQ code to query Windows Azure “WADLogsTable” to get rows which are stored after a specific DateTime
Following is LINQ code to query Windows Azure “WADLogsTable” in which you can get rows...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/24/2011
Total Number of Endpoints (Input and Internal) in Windows Azure Role
In Windows Azure your service communicate form its endpoints and the endpoints are two type: Input...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/21/2011
Intermittent exception with GetMessage() API when getting messages from Windows Azure Queue Storage
Recently I experience the following exception when using GetMessage() api to get messages from the...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/20/2011
When using Shared Access Signature (SAS) with Windows Azure, it is best to use Uri.AbsoluteUri() instead of Uri.ToString()
Recently I experienced an issue in which the following code was not able to generate a URI that is...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/17/2011
Information on Windows Azure Web Role Exception: "The 'validation' attribute is invalid. Enum must be one of MD5, SHA1, 3DES, AES"
I was working on a recent issue in which Windows Azure based Web Role was keep recycling from...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/16/2011
How to SWAP VIP from Staging to Production using Power Shell Script
You can use the following Power Shell Script to Swap VIP from Staging slot to Production slot in...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/15/2011
Update on VHD Mount Behavior in Windows Azure VM with latest Windows Azure SDK 1.4 and updated Guest OS
Some VHD Mount behavior seen in Windows Azure VM: - A mounted VHD gets un-mount after 30 minutes...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/14/2011
What to do when, Windows Azure Powershell CMDLET returns "The HTTP request was forbidden with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'" error message...
When you are executing PowerShell (Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets) it is possible you may...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/13/2011
Accessing Window Azure VM Logs i.e. IIS, WebHost, IISConfigurator, Bootstrapper and AppAgent using AzureVMAssist Application
You can download AzureVMAssist Application from link below: https://azurevmassist.codeplex.com/ You...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/12/2011
OSDiagnostics logs are available in Windows Azure VM mainly with Web and Worker Role at D:OSDiagnostics
You can find Windows Azure OS Diagnostics log at D:\OSdiagnostics folder: Which included OS...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/09/2011
Windows Azure Service Management API New Features - Azure Storage Service Life Cycle Management and update Get Deployment and List Subscriptions Methods
Based on Windows Azure team announcement new Windows Azure Service Management API features are as...
Author: Avkash Chauhan - MSFT Date: 06/08/2011