In order to set up Windows Azure Connect, you need to install a piece of software called Azure Connect Agent in each server/machine from your datacenter that you want to access. In order to do that, you usually have to access Azure-Portal in order...

I publish this error as its cause was really weird: I was getting an error when trying to start any Management Console related program (mmc.exe based admin tool), like Certificates, Event Viewer, etc. The error was: “The application has...

Just wanted to show a simple table comparison regarding CPU, memory, storage, I/O and cost for each Windows Azure VMs (Compute Instances). Compute Instance Size CPU Memory Instance Storage I/O Performance...

Just for my record, I wanted to post a few interesting posts regarding ‘ SCOM Azure Management Pack ’: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/02/01/setting-up-performance-counters-in-your-web-and-worker-roles.aspx http://blogs...

I just wanted to record a few options I found for Windows Azure Storage backup-restore (I’m not talking about SQL Azure, in this case). If you have any other option for this matter, please tell me and I’ll be happy to update this post....

One of the typical issues is getting the error "One of the request inputs is not valid" that occurs when testing the application with empty tables in development storage . This is because Development Storage currently requires the schema for an entity...

New! (March 9th 2011) Updated Windows Azure SDK (v.1.4) and Windows Azure Management Portal. New features we are enabling today include: Windows Azure Connect : Multiple administrator support on the Admin UI. An updated Client UI...

As many people asked for it, here you can download the presentations (in Spanish) we delivered yesterday, during the Architects Forum XXVI, regarding the following topics: - CQRS in Windows Azure - Claims based Security and Windows Azure Access...

Just wanted to share a great Architecture diagram made by Julio César Sanchez, who reviewed our Architecture and Sample app and at the same time elaborated this neat diagram. We really appreciate his time and details expressed in it: Thanks a lot Julio...

Next Wednesday we’ll deliver the following event (free attendance) in Madrid (Will be delivered 100% in Spanish): REGISTRATION https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032468807&Culture=es-ES AGENDA ...

  A quick reminder: After Windows Azure SDK 1.3, we now use full IIS instead HWC (Hosted Web Core). Using IIS we can have several WebSites per WebRole, so now the internal architecture and processes are different, this is why we have to change the...

This is a very interesting stuff for managing scalable web farms based on your own IIS servers, in a better way . The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web...