When someone installs Azure Connect Client using the link provided on Azure Portal as below after Azure Connect is enabled in the Windows Azure Application... https://waconnecttokenpage.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx?token=<Customer_Token_ID> ...

After working in one Windows Azure issue in which the ASP.NET Web Role was stuck in between "Busy" and "Starting", I decided to write the details to save some time for someone. After I logged in to Windows Azure VM and looked for Application ...

I recently worked on an incident in which the Windows Azure application had 1 web role and one WCF role. Initially the basics application with no specific changes worked well on compute emulator and on Windows Azure. After when we added the following...

Windows Identity Foundation team published February 2011 update to the identity developer training kit and the identity developer training course on MSDN . As service pack 1 for Windows 7 is already released, so team also updated the setup...

When you deploy your application to Windows Azure, sometimes, it is possible that your role will not start and in Windows Azure portal you will see that your role status shows the following cycle with regard to your service: Busy Starting...

When you try to upload a VHD using CSUPLOAD tool, it is possible you may receive the following error: "An unexpected error occurred: Server operation did not finish within user specified timeout '90' seconds, check if operation is valid or try increasing...

I was recently working with a partner on their Windows Azure related Project in which there was a VM Role and ASP.NET Web Role within one application which was developed using Windows Azure SDK 1.3. VM role VHD was deployed successfully to the Azure Portal...

When you are uploading blobs from a stream using multiple roles (web or worker) to a single azure storage location it is possible that you may hit the following exception: System.ArgumentException: Waithandle array may not be empty. at Microsoft...

First I would say it is a very delicate matter to discuss HIPAA compliance as definition and standards goes across many boundaries. Both the application and the infrastructure where the application is running defines the aspect of HIPAA compliance. HIPAA...

When you build your Windows Azure Application the final products is a CSPKG file which is uploaded to Windows Azure portal along with ServiceConfiguration.cscfg. The CSPKG file actually a ZIP file which consist your whole solution along with configuration...

It is possible that after you have successfully uploaded your VHD to your subscription using CSUPLOAD, you will see two issues: 1. You can verify that your VHD is working fine (using URL to verify that IIS is running or have some diagnostic data to...

While uploading a stream of various sizes using UploadFromStream, and using ResponseReceivedEventArgs to track the HTTPStatusCode you will see the following behavior: 1) For a blob whose size less than(or equal to)32 MB, the lib will send it in one...

I have seen lots of requests and interest to host SharePoint 2010 in Windows Azure so I deiced to write some information on this regard which can help everyone. As of now, SharePoint 2010 cannot be hosted as business solution on Windows Azure and it is...

On January 24th 2011, Windows Azure Team, released an update to the Identity Developer Training Kit . Windows Azure Team also released the first MSDN-hosted Identity Developer Training Course , an online version of the kit where all the labs instructions...

Until today February 7 th , 2011 morning, if you had tried to compile the Windows Azure Cmdlets with Windows Azure SDK 1.3 you must have encountered that compilation is not successful. Further investigation related to compilation failure reveled the...

When you run CSUPLOAD tool on a Windows OS 7 32bit machine, you will receive the following error: An unexpected error occurred: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) Exception:...

When you run CSUPLOAD tool on a machine Other than Windows 7 64bit or Windows Server 2008 R2 you may receive the following error: This is because when CSUPLOAD tools runs on a machine it checks the machine’s Operating System and if it...

On February 3 rd Windows Azure team announced the public BETA availability for Windows Azure Extra Small Instance: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/02/03/windows-azure-extra-small-instances-now-available-as-public-beta.aspx ...

Today Windows Azure Team released the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 Refresh. This refresh contains configuration and security changes that may affect services built using the Windows Azure November 2010 SDK (v 1.3) where a Web Role is deployed with the full IIS...

Microsoft Research team created a very nice tool called “Azure Throughput Analyzer” to display upload and download throughput between your network and Azure datacenters when you are using Windows Azure Storage. You can use this tool if you are encountering...

On February 1 st Windows Azure team updated the Windows Azure Training Course formulated as Windows Azure Platform Training Course January 2011 Update. The January update provides new and updated demo scripts and a new Windows Phone 7 hands-on labs...