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...

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...

It is possible that when you deploy your CSPKG file , you may encounter an error as "The specified deployment slot Production is occupied" and your package deployment will fail. This error may occur in the following cases: Error Creating a...

If you find a situation, where you will have to share the RDP access with someone else, in this case you can do the following to share your VM Access: 1. Go to Windows Azure Management Portal and in the Remote Access toolbar please select "Configure...

As you may know, you can use appcmd.exe application to configure IIS and when you are using Web Role in your Azure Application, it is possible that you may need to configure IIS before the role starts. You can use startup task method to launch appcmd...

Here are the detailed steps: 1. Create a folder name Startup in your Project 2. Add your certificate in this folder (In this case I have added MyCert.cer) 3. Create a command batch file name addcert.cmd in the same folder and as following command...

When you have you application running in Windows Azure the best thing is to enable diagnostics monitoring so you can collect diagnostics data from your application. However it is also possible to collect performance related data using PERFMON...

When you will use the following code in Page_Load function of default.aspx: String sRootPath = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RoleRoot"); You will see different results depend on Full IIS Web Role and HWC as below: Full IIS Web Role...

The Windows Azure Bootstrapper is a command line tool meant to be used by your running Web and Worker roles in Windows Azure. This tool allows you to easily download resources (either public resources or ones in your blob storage), extract them...

When you deploy multiple instances to VM Role along with Windows Azure Connect and domain join setting , it may possible that domain join may work in one VM instance but not in others. I happen to worked on such issue and here are the details: You...

When you deploy your package to Windows Azure Management Portal it is possible you may received the following error: Error creating deployment for hosted service '<Service_NAME>'. The file provided is not a valid service package. Detailed...

When you enabled Windows Azure Connect in any of your Windows Azure Role (Worker Role, Web Role or VM Role) it is possible you may hit some connectivity related issues. Please follow the given instructions to generate a diagnostics logs: - You must...

Recently I was working on an issue in which Azure Partner reported the following issue: When creating MVC2 Web Role in Visual Studio 2010, the following error dialog occurred and MVC2 Web Role based project could not be created. - "The project template...

Please be sure to have Visual Studio 2010 (or Visual Web Developer) along with Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh installed in your machine. Get the full working Sample at: http://aspmvc3webroleazure.codeplex.com/ Step 1. Please create a MVC2 Web...

In this blog I will show you step by step how you can deploy a ClickOnce application designed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 using Windows Azure Storage. In this case, I have a Windows Form Application name VHDMountAzureVM ( http://mountvhdazurevm...

This first release of Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. Download Files for iOS: https://github.com/microsoft-dpe/watoolkitios-lib https://github...

ERROR MESSAGE: This request operation sent to net.pipe://localhost/iisconfigurator did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:01:00). The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. This may be because...

I was recently working on a problem in which Windows Azure user reported the following issue: When Windows Azure user RDP to their Web Role they found that, AzureAgentIntegrator.exe process consuming 70-80% CPU which cause a significant amount of...

Prev: Microsoft Platform Ready Certification for Windows Azure Application Part 1 - Application Submission and Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool Download & Installation Start Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool and you will see a dialog windows...

Microsoft Platform Ready (MPR) is designed to give you what you need to plan, build, test and take your solution to market. We’ve brought a range of platform development tools together in one place, including technical, support and marketing resources...

In the part 1 we have finished a Rails application name "RubyonAzure" as described in the link below: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/04/26/ruby-on-rails-in-windows-azure-part-1-setting-up-ruby-on-rails-in-windows-7-machine-with...

Lets start with main component installation as below: 1. Ruby 1.9.2 2. Rails 3.0.7 Ruby Installation: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 I have installed it at C:\Applicaitons\Ruby\Ruby192 Gems (Ruby Package Manager) Installation...

You can download this full VS2010 Solution and open in VS2010 admin mode. Edit MainPage.xaml.cs and enable to following line so you can use my prebuilt Pivot in your Code and then just press F5 to test sample in compute emulator: private static...

Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh is ready to install which has an important plugin name "Web Deploy" which will help you to: Web Deploy only works with a single role instance. The tool is intended only for iterative development and testing...

On 15th April Windows Azure Team released Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh which only included "Web Deploy" plugin in addition to original Windows Azure SDK 1.4. After the Refresh is installed you can see new addition to the SDK plugins folder and new...