Recently Windows Azure Table Storage access code which was working fine started giving the following error: 412 Precondition Failed The server does not meet one of the preconditions that the requester put on the request Stack Trace: ...

Using Import/Export Service for SQL Azure CTP you can directly import or export between a SQL Azure database and a customer Windows Azure BLOB storage account. As you may know the Windows Azure Storage cost ~$0.10 per GB so if you decided to use...

The new Import/Export Service for SQL Azure CTP is now live in all datacenters as a public CTP. The service will directly import or export between a SQL Azure database and a customer Windows Azure BLOB storage account. The service complements the client...

The makecert.exe tool which comes with VS2010 can generate up to 1024 bit certificate. To create a 2048 bit certificate you would need makecert.exe from the Windows SDK 7.1. The details are as below: Step 1: Download Windows SDK 7.1 from the link...

Using new Windows Azure SDK 1.5 testing application in compute emulator is much closer to real cloud platform. There are significant changes in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 compute emulator behavior with regard to load balancer related IP settings. ...

Today Windows Azure Team, release long awaited Windows Azure SDK 1.5, along with several other prominent features with Windows Azure Tools... Windows Azure SDK 1.5 is now available with number of updates as: •Re-architected emulator, which...

As you may very well know Windows Azure SDK 1.5 is released today and available immediately so you can update your Windows Azure application immediately. More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/09/14/windows-azure-sdk-1-5-is-released...

After you enable Windows Azure Diagnostics with Web and/or Worker Role please make sure to use correct Windows Azure Storage account and key. After it, please run your web or worker role in compute emulator and then verify at Windows Azure Storage for...

Recently a major change in Windows Azure allows you to have total 25 roles, along with 25 internal and 25 external (total 50) Endpoints in your deployment. More info is as below: Windows Azure has increased the maximum number of roles allowed in...

When you create a new application with Windows Azure SDK 1.5, you will see two separate Service Configuraiton files as below: ServiceConfiguration.Local.cscfg Use this file for local configuration which can be used for debugging your application...

New Windows Azure Portal let you add up 10 users as co-administrator using Windows Live ID. You just need to add co-administrator Windows Live ID in the “User Management” Section as below: A few things to remember: - The limit...

Now anyone using Windows Azure Storage can sleep without any tension, by knowing that their data in Windows Azure Storage (blob, table and queue) have another safe copy replicated within the same region. I am awake at 10:20 PM for other reasons however...

As you may know Windows Azure Traffic Manager (WATM) BETA is available. Windows Azure Traffic Manager is a load balancing solution that enables the distribution of incoming traffic among different hosted services in your Windows Azure subscription, regardless...

As you may know using Windows Azure storage service REST API you can perform conditional PUT operations by using the If-Match request header on your client code. Here is an interesting scenario: You have two clients and they both are modifying...

A question always comes if it possible to ping between roles in Windows Azure deployment? This is because, when you have multiple roles and instances in your deployment it is comment to check the health between all the roles and instances by RDP...

Recently I was working with someone on Windows Azure SDK 1.5 and VM Role deployment. While trying to upload certificate to Windows Azure Management Portal, the error occurred as below: C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.5\bin>csupload add-servicecertificate...

Using Windows Azure Traffic manager (WATM) in fail-over mode with following scenarios: - Service with Worker role only (No web endpoint) - Service with WCF endpoints thru web roles and no active web content In both cases we will have service...

Here are some architectural information on dealing with disparate entity types with Windows Azure Table Storage. For example you have an objective to store some kind of application entitlement information in Windows Azure table storage and to handle...

It is possible that you may hit “Bad XML Error” while deploying your Windows Azure application due to some issue in your configuration XML. This error could occur while deploying directly to Windows Azure Management Portal or using Visual...

Here is a Windows Azure Table Update scenario which I found very useful to share: You objective is to write some code to either do batch update and individual update in Windows Azure tables with or without ETag. To handle both batch update and...

Here is a list of Windows Azure Tools SDK 1.4 version Windows Azure SDK 1.4: Azure Tools SDK - 1.4.20227.1419 – Original Azure Tools SDK Refresh - 1.4.20407.2049 - Refresh Azure Tools SDK Updated August 2, 2011 - 1.4.40727.1601...

If you decide to change (higher or lower) Windows Azure Application instance count, you can do it directly from Windows Azure Portal. The instruction are as below: Please login to Windows Azure Management Portal. Now select your service which instance...

As you can see below is the certificate, already installed in my machine and I want to upload as my Service Certificate to Azure Portal. Before the release of Windows Azure SDK you would have to upload certificate directly to portal however using Windows...

Windows Azure has increased the maximum number of roles allowed in a deployment from 5 to 25. This change allows customers to deploy up to 25 distinct roles, which can be a mixture of Web Roles, Worker Roles, and Virtual Machine Roles , as part of a single...

The problem I am describing here is related with setting up custom domain for Window Azure CDN in your Office 365 (Professional and Education) account. Here are the details: - Your custom domain: mydomain.com - Your Azure Storage CDN URL:...