Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out.Check out and you can get 0.6.10 installer from the direct link here . There are several new features are added to this release but the best I like is to setup debugging mode to see request and response data on console. A list of changes you can see here . To...

Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out.Check out and you can get 0.6.10 installer from the direct link here . There are several new features are added to this release but the best I like is to setup debugging mode to see request and response data on console. A list of changes you can see here . To...

When you try to run Powershell commands on Windows Azure Cloud Service (PaaS) VM you may have seen exception as below: PS D:\Users\avkash> Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime Add-PSSnapin : Cannot add Windows PowerShell snap-in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime because it...

If you are using publishsettings with Powershell, you may not be able to decrypt HTTPS traffic. Not sure what the problem is with publishsettings based certificates however I decided to create my own certificate using MAKECERT, and use it with Powershell to get HTTPS decryption working in Fiddler. The...

When trying to run Windows Azure Powershell commands in Windows Azure VM (Web Role or Worker Role) instance you will hit the following exception: PS D:\Users\avkash> Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime Add-PSSnapin : Cannot add Windows PowerShell snap-in Microsoft.WindowsAzure...

There is a situation Windows Azure Virtual machines where either y ou have deleted the Virtual Machines for any reason or Virtual Machine is deleted due some other reason. You may have already know that the OS disk vhd is still saved in your Azure Storage because when virtual machine is deleted the OS...

License Mobility Through Software Assurance: With License Mobility through Software Assurance, you can deploy certain server application licenses purchased under your Volume Licensing agreement in an Authorized Mobility Partner’s datacenter. Extend the value of your server application...

For Customers and Partners, the following summary of resources will support the evaluation of Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS): Core Resources 90 Day Free Trial - we can confirm the Preview Period in support of the new release of Windows Azure is now available, which enables you to evaluate...

As you may have already seen announcement about comprehensive updates to Windows Azure Customer Support Offerings which is described as below: Windows Azure Support Pricing (per month): Free: FREE Developer: $29.00 Standard: $300.00 Profesional Direct: $1000.00 Premier: Contact Premier...

What is HDInsight? HDinsight is the product name for Microsoft installation of Hadoop and Hadoop on azure service. HDInsight is Microsoft’s 100% Apache compatible Hadoop distribution, supported by Microsoft. HDInsight, available both on Windows Server or as an Windows Azure service, empowers...

With latest release of Windows Azure, Cloud service user can run their cloud service application in Windows Server 2012 OS. If you have seen the new portal you may have seen the following new addition: Currently this settings is available only for new application and any of your Windows Server...

Windows Azure SDK 1.8 is live and available to work with VS2012 and VS2010SP1. You can choose any one WebPI 4.0 based installer to install from here . Direct Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35448 Following is the list of all components installed with SDK 1...

Recently while working on an incident I found that if you use Windows Azure Startup task with launch some application along with command line redirection (to collect log) directly as below, it may not launch the startup task: ServiceDefinition.csdef: 1: <Task commandLine= "Startup\Application...

First create a Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Windows Azure and be sure it is running. Be sure to have SSH connection enabled working with your VM. Once you can remote into your Ubuntu Linux VM over SSH try the following steps: 1. Installing Oracle Java SDK # sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre 2...

First I created a CentOS Linux Virtual Machine with host names as “ nodejsbox ” and the DNS name as http://nodejsbox.cloudapp.net As I will use this machine as node.js web server so I have added https endpoint for protocol TCP at port 80 as below: Now I can log into my Linux...

I have downloaded pre-built WCF-WF samples from the link here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21459 After unzipping the above sample collection, I have selected WFStockPriceApplication application which is located as below: C:\2012\WorkFlow\WF_WCF_Samples\WF\Basic...

Visit to your Go to your Windows Azure Website: In your Windows Azure Website please select the following: FTP Host Name: *.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net FTP User Login Name: yourwebsitename\yourusername Password: your_password Use FileZilla or any FTP client application and configure...

I have seen a few issues reported related Windows Azure Websites, when someone deploy an ASP.NET web application (which use Azure Storage Client Library) to Windows Azure Websites. I decided to give a try and document all the steps to show how to do it correctly and what not to miss. Here are the steps...

Step 1: Install vsftpd [root@avkashcentnew ~]# yum install vsftpd Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: vsftpd x86_64 2.2.2-6.el6_2.1 updates 149 k Transaction Summary ===================...

With the release of Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and there is already Windows Azure Shared Cache there are lots of question what these cache are and how to use them. I decide to write this article to provide the differences between them so users can understand it properly. To start, the main difference...

When you try enable HTTP compression (gzip) and HTTP 304 Caching via ETags on Azure CDN, you may not get both working together. For example if you enable HTTP Compression for CSS and JavaScript resources in Windows Azure CDN along with ETag based HTTP 304 caching, you might experience that “HTTP...

With Windows Azure CDN you must pass the QueryString parameter containing a compressible filename type (.js, .cs etc) or you are requesting a file by its original name (jquery.js, site.css, etc.) otherwise Accept-Encoding HTTP header will not be passed. For example when using an AXD resource handler...

You might hit an exception while sdding MSCHART to your Windows azure Web Role and WCF service could cause exception as below: Create a new Windows Azure ASP.NET Webrole Add a new WCF Web Role to it Build and verify that it does works in Compute Emulator Add MsChart control on any ASP...

I am writing the detail below on how you can hit BP at Application_Start() in Global.asax.cs: First you can write Debugger.Break() code in your Application_Start() as below: Now please open your Role Properties > Web and select 1.Use Visual Studio Development Server settings (I have chosen...

Burp is a great tool to use REST API directly in the GUI. I have written this blog to understand how to configure Burp to Manage Windows Azure subscription and services using REST API. You can download the tool below: http://portswigger.net/burp/proxy.html After you start the tool first step is to setup...