When you use Windows Azure Storage to dump your diagnostics data, it may possible that you have lots of blobs which are old and you dont have any use of those blobs. You can delete them manually however you know how much it will take so to expedite the...

Today Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Team updated a few new samples which includes JAVA and PHP based REST API to access Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. Team created "Chat application" in PHP and Java that can all work seamlessly together...

Recently Windows Azure team released updated Windows Azure Portal with following updates: 11 Language The Portal is now available in 11 languages; newly supported languages are Japanese, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French...

Windows Azure App Fabric Team has released updated version of Windows Azure App Fabric with following update: Access Control The following updates have been made to all ACS 2.0 namespaces. Rules now support up to two input...

It is very much possible that you may need to run 32 bit application inside Windows Azure Web role and to achieve it, you will have to configure IIS. In Windows Azure you will need proper start up script which will configure IIS to enable 32 bit application...

In ACS v2 you can use Identity Provider integration i.e. Live, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. if we dig deeper we find that: Windows Live ID uses WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile Google and Yahoo use OpenID, including the OpenID Attribute...

When you log into your Windows Azure VM which has Windows Azure Web Role, you might have problem accessing IIS logs. When you will try opening IIS logs folder you will get "access denied" error. The irony is that this issue happens randomly. IIS Logs...

If you are using SiteMapProvider (SiteMap Provider) Object in your Windows Azure web role you might receive following exception randomly: Exception type: ArgumentException Exception message: Could not find the sitemap node with URL '~/appdir/testapplicaiton...

Recently I was working on an issue and found the worker role was keep recycling. After I logged into Azure VM and looked as Application Event Log, I found the following exception was logged every 30 seconds: Log Name: Application Source: .NET Runtime...

In an recent issue, while trying to upload a new Windows Azure Package (CSPKG & CSCFG) to Windows Azure Management Portal., cause problems. The same steps were working fine forever however suddenly the following error occurred: 8:43:09 PM -...

Throughout the lifetime of a deployment, the VIP assigned will not change, regardless of the operations on the deployment, including updates, reboots, and reimaging the OS. The VIP for a given deployment will persist until that deployment is deleted.”...

Whenever you got "Access Denied" error with Windows Azure Storage via any kind of resources, while: Creating, accessing or modifying tables or tables entries in Windows Azure Table Storage Creating containers or file modifications in Windows...

Depend on what kind of information you would like to share you can choose different methods to share specific information. If your objective is to share continuous information which is generated regularly then “Windows Azure Storage Queue”...

As you may very well know, Windows Azure Web Role and Worker Role can have only HTTP/HTTPS/TCP type of end points that’s means you can use Web and Worker Role for UDP Traffic. <InputEndpoint name="<input-endpoint-name>" protocol...

In VM Role, Windows Firewall programming is depend on the user. If you are developing VM Role Image, the you should configure the firewall as you see fit for your objective. For Web and Worker role, the virtual machine is locked and endpoints are configured...

When someone prepare VHD for VM Role they might have the question if SYSPREP is really necessary or not. First I would describe some of very important VM Role Image configuration achieved using SYSPREP as below: VM image should be clean and...