Questions tagged [azure]
Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports?
I created one Nginx with one Linux Azure VM, is it possible to make nginx listen to different ports so that when I change the port number, the content would be different. I found there would be a ...
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Can Microsoft employees see my data in Azure?
I have sensitive data stored in both Azure DB and Azure SQL VM.
An authorised DBA can log on and query the database, but in theory could a random Microsoft employee do the same without asking ...
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Difference between Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps
Microsoft announced Azure Container Apps, a new service for
running serverless containers in the cloud. This appears to be similar to the Container Instances service, which is also for deploying ...
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How can I determine if it is cost-effective to move my site to cloud solution?
I have a large, busy site; it currently runs completely on a dedicated server that I rent each month for ~$700.
It has three parts that I think I could carve off to a cloud solution:
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Putting RSA keys into azure key vault
How can I store my key pair (typically the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub) in azure key vault.
I want to put the public key in my GIT service and allow a virtual machine to download the private key from Azure ...
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Does enabling "Always On" in a MS Azure Website make it more expensive? [closed]
We are hosting 32 websites in one Standard web hosting plan mode and a Small instance size. Will it cost us more to enable "Always On" in one or all of the websites?
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Cloning Virtual Machine On Azure, keeping existing
There doesn't seem to be a straight answer online about this. I have an existing Virtual Machine on Azure and I want to clone it to another region in case my existing server goes down. It needs to be ...
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Import-Module Azure fails
I am trying to work with Windows Azure PowerShell module on Windows 8.1. I have downloaded and installed the Azure module and in start I can run and use the "Windows Azure PowerShell" which is a PS ...
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Can I replace my domain controller with Azure Active Directory? [duplicate]
I currently have a small network with a few servers and about 25 client PCs. We are using Office365 and have AD synchronisation setup from our on-premise server. We also have single-sign-on setup ...
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32bits or 64bits for Windows Azure Web Sites?
The Windows Azure Web Sites offers two options 32bits or 64bits. New sites come with 32bits by default. For a server configuration it feels a bit odd because, AFAIK, the vast majority of web servers ...
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How to find the service principal assigned to a newly created AKS cluster?
I have just created an AKS cluster using a standard az aks create ... --ssh-key-value ....
According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-service-principal,
an AKS cluster is ...
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Difference between Azure tenant and directory
Are Azure "tenant" and "directory" different things, or different names for the same thing?
According to the documentation, a tenant is a container within Azure associated with a company or group of ...
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How can I work out who created an Azure resource, older than 90 days old?
We have discovered some resources in a resource group in our Azure subscription and we have no idea how they got there. They seem to be unnecessary, so we will be deleting them, but before we do we ...
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Renaming an Azure VM
I am looking to rename an Azure VM. I have copied a VM from one subscription to another using this guide:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/01/29/from-the-mvps-copying-a-virtual-...
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How to identify the cause of 100% CPU usage in Azure App Service?
I have five apps in an Azure App Service Plan, all different copies of the same app for different clients. It's an ASP.NET MVC app with an SQL database.
This morning I woke up to slow and non-...
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Can't see second azure sql database in SSMS object explorer
I have created a second database on my existing Azure SQL server. The first database works fine and I can see it using SSMS.
I cannot see the second database in the object explorer. Autocomplete ...
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How to reset the admin password on VM on Windows Azure?
The virtual machines on Windows Azure allow to connect from RDP. But how can I reset the administrator password if the password has been lost?
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Kubernetes v1.24.3 upgrade broke ingress-nginx
After upgrading our AKS kubernetes cluster to from v1.23.8 to v1.24.3 our ingress stopped working properly. No errors logged in events and the ingress-nginx pod does not report any errors on the ...
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Can I use Office365 or Azure AD as master record for Active Directory?
We have a small business and currently don't have a need for a domain within our office. We have a basic network and a single server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with some file shares and 3rd party ...
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Converting an existing Azure VM to a Reserved Instance
I have a long running VM on Azure. I recently read about Reserved Instances.
Is it possible to convert/transfer/ move my existing VM to a reserved instance, or do I need to build a new VM from ...
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Azure backup vs Snapshots
I'm an azure newbie and just trying to understand Azure better. My questions are specific to backing up Linux VMs in Azure. Please help me in understanding it better.
I read that Azure backup takes ...
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How can I disable an Azure Redis Cache?
I have been experimenting with the Azure Redis Cache preview, and so far, so good. However, when I am not using it, I would like to disable it so that it is not consuming memory and not accessible.
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Migrate user accounts from Azure AD to on-premise AD?
My company uses Office 365 for Exchange, SharePoint, Lync etc. including the build-in user administration via Azure Active Directory.
Now we want to switch to a local AD on a Windows Server. It shall ...
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Can an email server be set-up on an Azure VM?
I am considering the possibility of setting up a simple SMTP+IMAP email server for internal use on an extra small Azure VM. When I say internal use I don't mean "used by internal users", but for use ...
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Is it safe to run do-release-upgrade on a cloud VM?
I have a few Ubuntu VMs on Azure running Server 17.10 and I'm wondering if it's safe to upgrade them to 18.04.1 LTS using do-release-upgrade.
If so, what precautions should I take?
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SNI and wildcard SSL certificates on the same server with IIS
I'd like to host a website that should listen to subdomains (e.g. sub.domain.com) together with multiple websites that live just under a second-level domain (e.g. domain2.com, domain3.com) with IIS ...
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How can I share an Azure VM image with other subscriptions?
I need to create an Azure VM image that can be used by other people to create VMs in their own subscriptions.
I've looked at the Azure documentation for VMs and images. I can find info on how to ...
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Should I encrypt OS disk with BitLocker for HIPAA compliance
I am looking into hosting a HIPAA compliant web application on Azure VM's. For the database, right now I am leaning towards using a VM with SQL 2014 Standard Edition.
Since TDE is not available with ...
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Azure portal rename resources
Anyone have any idea on how i can rename azure resources?
For example: I have a schedule job collection.
I would like to rename the collection to get better organized.
In fact, i also would like to ...
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Benchmarking Azure's Premium Storage P30 Disks
We're running performance tests on two new Standard DS13 (8 Core, 56 GB) VMs (both using the latest/default Windows 2012 R2 image) backed by Premium Storage and have hit a wall with step 1 in testing ...
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Hibernate Windows Azure VM (IAAS)
I am a developer and use an Azure VM for my main development platform.
To save the company some money I thought I might shut it down at weekends etc. but often I have many programs etc open that I'd ...
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How can I monitor VM memory usage on Azure?
I have a few VMs set up as ADO (VSTS) build servers and thought I'd look into CPU and RAM usage over time to optimize the VM size.
However I have had a hard time finding anything in Azure that allows ...
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How to turn off Windows Azure's "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message?
Is there any setting/configuration item to avoid Windows Azure from printing that error on the screen or detecting it? I've put a screenshot below that shows the message when you RDP into the web role....
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Adding VM's to Domain
I am trying to configure SP farm, in Azure, following steps mention in this article - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt723354(v=office.16).aspx
But after creating Sql VM('sqlVM' ), I am ...
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Join Azure VM to Azure AD
Using Microsoft Azure I have a default Active Directory domain (apparently) and I can create VMs. To my surprise, such VMs are not joined to the AD domain automatically and domain users can't log ...
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Azure closing idle network connections
I'm running a proprietary client/server application on a single instance windows server 2k8R2 azure VM.
The client is very dependent on a connection with the server. However if I spend a couple of ...
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How to create a swap for Azure Ubuntu VM?
I have read quite a few posts on this, but I am still unsure about the correct approach, assuming:
I have a default Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VM created by and running on Azure, which doesn't come with a swap
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Slow disk performance on Azure Virtual Machine
Okay, so first of all, allow me to say that I'm not an operations person, but a developer. So I'm going into a bit of unknown land here, so please bear with me.
I would like to use a Azure Virtual ...
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Azure firewall vs Azure network security group
I've been trying to understand the difference between a Azure firewall (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-firewall/) and the features offered by NSGs/network security groups (https://...
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Azure Powershell - Change Directory
When I login to the new Azure Portal I see a drop-down at the top right that lets me select a "Directory" from a list of 2. When I login to azure using powershell cmdlet "Login-AzureRmAccount" I am ...
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issue when trying migration via Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
I want to migrate my Esxi VM from on promise to Azure cloud. I've found solution which provides it to me. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter, provides migrating to Azure Cloud.
During migration ...
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Gracefully take a server out of Azure Load Balancer (drain stop)
We have an application deployed to Azure IaaS VMs, served by IIS. In order to install updates, we need to take each machine out of the load balancer, one by one.
Before moving to Azure, we were using ...
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Why do you need the awverify CNAME record for Azure?
See i.e.: How to set up CNAME to point to Azure
or the text within the azure portal:
Why is this necessary in the first place? Why does pointing the domain name through an A record not prove that I ...
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Using Azure AD to push Group Policy settings
I am trying to use Azure Active Directory instead of using a traditional domain controller.
I would like to use Azure AD to authenticate users and to push GPO settings, such as folder redirection, ...
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sql azure vs azure VM with SQLServer Express
Beside being cheaper is there any problem/advantages to use SQL Azure vs to use a Virtual Machine with SQL Express?
We are looking to setup a SQL server for more than 50 websites, do you have any ...
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How do I backup a windows azure virtual machine?
How do I backup a windows azure virtual machine? I would like to schedule daily backups of system state that could be restored if needed. Data can be backed via Azure Backup, but not system it seems.
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SSH freezes when idle for a time
Connecting from Ubuntu Desktop x64 14.04's ssh client to an Ubuntu Server 14.04 x64 SSH server on Microsoft Azure.
Unfortunately when it is connected and left idle for a time; the connection freezes ...
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Connect Azure AppService web app to Azure Virtual Machine through private network. Possible?
I'm trying to figure out a way to connect my web app running in Azure AppServices to an Azure Virtual Machine that's hosting a database server.
I can see that the Azure VM has both a public and ...
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Logging in with local admin account after joining domain
I was under the impression that once you joined a domain that the local admin account would be disabled. I did the following in Azure:
Created Windows Server 2012 R2 instance and promoted to domain ...
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SSL certificate and Azure classic load balancer
I have 2 VMs behind a load balancer on Azure. I created a new SSL certificate via Let's Encrypt on one of the VMs using the domain that is assigned to the load balancer. When I connect to that VM ...
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