Azure VM Assistant (AzureVMAssist) is an utility which runs inside Azure VM and provide important information about VM environment specific Role details, health information etc. It also helps VM users to do several tasks faster and designed for day to...

When you are executing PowerShell ( Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets ) it is possible you may be getting error – “The HTTP request was forbidden with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'." . I have seen such kind of error...

Some VHD Mount behavior seen in Windows Azure VM: - A mounted VHD gets un-mount after 30 minutes even when the process which mounted the VM exits - A mounted VHD will still be mounted after the process which mounted the VM exits Here...

You can use the following Power Shell Script to Swap VIP from Staging slot to Production slot in Windows Azure when needed: ###################### # VIP Swap PS Script ###################### Add-PSSnapin AzureManagementToolsSnapIn $service =...

Today I decided to check SSL report for my Web Role report, using Qualys SSL Lbs online test suite, which is hosted in Windows Azure and HTTP and HTTPS endpoints. I was amazed to see the SSL Report results which was 85 (or grade 'A'). You can test...

You can download AzureVMAssist Application from link below: http://azurevmassist.codeplex.com/ You can Machine specific logs i.e. Bootstrapper logs, WaWebHost Logs, WaIISHost Logs, IIS Configurator Logs etc from the “Launch Pad”...

In Windows Azure your service communicate form its endpoints and the endpoints are two type: Input (External) Internal Your role must have at least one endpoint in it. You can not have role without any endpoint. Service Specific Limit...

Following is LINQ code to query Windows Azure “WADLogsTable” in which you can get rows which are stored after a specific DateTime. public static CloudTableQuery<TEntity> GetDiagnosticEntities<TEntity>( this TableServiceContext...

ACS v2 comes with default Windows Live Passport support to add signing requirement for your application using Windows live service accounts. You can start digging into ACS v2 from the link below: http://acs.codeplex.com Custom Open ID Identity...

When you have VM role deployed with Windows Azure connect e ndpoint software is installed, you may see the integrator.log file could grow very fast. This log is located as below: C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Connect\Endpoint\Logs\Integrator.log ...

The Web Role was stuck as below: 6:09:56 PM - Preparing... 6:09:56 PM - Connecting... 6:09:59 PM - Uploading... 6:11:15 PM - Creating... 6:12:28 PM - Starting... 6:13:20 PM - Initializing... 6:13:21 PM - Instance 0 of role AvkashTestWebRole is initializing...

Based on Windows Azure team announcement new Windows Azure Service Management API features are as below: New Feature: Azure storage Service Life Cycle Management: means programmatically create, update, or delete storage services using the following...

You can find Windows Azure OS Diagnostics log at D:\OSdiagnostics folder: Which included OS diagnostics related info in CSV files. Each OSDiagnostics logs CSV file is created hourly and inside this CSV file, logs is written every 5 seconds...

I was working on a recent issue in which Windows Azure based Web Role was keep recycling from initializing to busy, aborted etc state. The application event logs shows the following error: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime Critical...

Recently I experienced an issue in which the following code was not able to generate a URI that is suitable for use as a URL in web transactions. You might have seen no problem at all using Uri.ToString() however the same code sometimes failed to generate...

Recently I experience the following exception when using GetMessage() api to get messages from the Windows Azure Storage Queue: at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task`1.get_Result() at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task...