Microsoft Azure Support Team Blog
Stale screenshot in Azure VM Boot Diagnostics
If you notice the Boot Diagnostics screenshot for your Azure VM is stale in the Azure portal, first...
Date: 02/15/2018
Enhanced Azure Security for sending Emails - November 2017 Update
Azure is committed to stopping SPAM and reducing the customer impact caused by negative IP...
Date: 11/15/2017
How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Linux VMs using ARM
Introduction This blog post will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring...
Date: 09/29/2017
How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Windows VMs using ARM
This article will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring on Windows VMs...
Date: 09/12/2017
Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs
Azure uses the following KMS endpoints for Windows product activation of Azure Virtual Machines:...
Date: 06/14/2017
Azure Disk Encryption - Convert BEK Disk Encryption to KEK for Azure Recovery Services
Convert BEK Disk Encryption to KEK for Azure Recovery Services A common desire is to convert Azure...
Date: 11/28/2016
Azure Disk Encryption - How to recover BEK file from Azure Key Vault
In today’s blog, we will demonstrate behavior of Azure Disk Encryption Extension and how it...
Date: 11/27/2016
Microsoft Azure: How to execute a synchronous Azure PowerShell cmdlet multiple times at once, using a single PowerShell session
Overview Often times, Microsoft Azure customers have requirements to create multiple resources of...
Date: 06/29/2016
Cross-subscription circuit links that cross the ARM/classic boundary
(contributed by Michael Jolley) While enabling an ARM circuit for use with classic deployments is...
Date: 05/18/2016
VM stuck in "Updating" when NSG rule restricts outbound internet connectivity
An Azure VM may experience the following symptoms if you have a network security group (NSG) rule...
Date: 04/27/2016
Sending E-mail from Azure Compute Resource to External Domains
Please see updated content...
Date: 04/04/2016
Impact of Cisco March 2016 Vulnerabilities on Azure
Microsoft evaluates the security of its infrastructure on an ongoing basis and part of this...
Date: 03/03/2016
Azure networking - Public IP addresses in Classic vs ARM
This post was contributed by Stefano Gagliardi, Pedro Perez, Telma Oliveira, and Leonid Gagarin As...
Date: 02/04/2016
Endpoint Load Balancing Heath Probe Configuration Details
Azure load balanced endpoints enable a port to be configured on multiple role instances or virtual...
Date: 01/26/2016
AutoAdminLogon registry value reset to 0 after reboot
Recently a customer had an issue where they were setting some registry values in their Azure VM by...
Date: 01/08/2016
IaaSAntimalware Extension Status NotReady if Installed with no Configuration
The Microsoft Antimalware extension (IaaSAntimalware) requires a minimum configuration when...
Date: 12/27/2015
Azure VM may fail to activate over ExpressRoute
Customers can advertise a default route (also known as forced tunneling) over their ExpressRoute...
Date: 12/01/2015
Azure SNAT
This post was contributed by Pedro Perez. Azure’s network infrastructure is quite different than...
Date: 07/13/2015
Supported IP Protocols for Azure Cloud Services
As of today, June 2015, the supported IP protocols for Azure cloud services are TCP (protocol number...
Date: 06/18/2015
Building Windows Server Failover Cluster on Azure IAAS VM – Part 2 (Network)
Hello, cluster fans! In my previous blog, Part 1, I talked about how to work around the storage...
Date: 06/17/2015
Windows Server Failover Cluster on Azure IAAS VM – Part 1 (Storage)
Hello, cluster fans. This is Mario Liu and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows High...
Date: 06/17/2015
Use Azure custom routes to enable KMS activation with forced tunneling
If customers enable forced tunneling on their subnets to force internet connectivity via on premises...
Date: 05/20/2015
Azure DNS Server Redundancy
Customers may observe that their PaaS role instances and IaaS virtual machines are only issued one...
Date: 05/18/2015
What is the IP address 168.63.129.16?
The IP address 168.63.129.16 is a virtual public IP address that is used to facilitate a...
Date: 05/18/2015
Keeping Azure PowerShell Current
I have been supporting Azure for 7 years now and one of the constants is the rapid pace of change of...
Date: 04/12/2015
Traffic Manager and Azure SLB - Better Together!
This post was contributed by Pedro Perez Can Traffic Manager coexist with Azure Load Balancer? And...
Date: 04/10/2015
Unable to connect to multinic Linux VM
When creating an Azure VM with multiple NICs and subnets, the guest's default gateway is not...
Date: 02/10/2015
Unable to delete VHD, “There is currently a lease on the blob…”
For classic VMs, there are artifacts (metadata about the VHDs) that keep a lease on the VHD even...
Date: 01/27/2015
Recover Azure VM by attaching OS disk to another Azure VM
[Update:1/28/2015] These steps apply only to classic VMs. If you need assistance with Resource...
Date: 11/20/2014
Configuring Azure Virtual Machines for Optimal Storage Performance
In support, one of the most common questions we get is: How do I achieve the best disk performance...
Date: 10/14/2014
How to Monitor for Storage Account Throttling
For Azure Virtual Machines, we document storage limits of 500 IOPS per disk, and the guidance to not...
Date: 08/02/2014
Learning Azure Service Management REST API through Powershell, and Azure CLI tools
Azure Service Management REST API is used by all the public tools provided by Microsoft to manage...
Date: 07/15/2014
Unable to setup AutoScale for Virtual Machines from the Azure Management Portal
You can set up AutoScale for your Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Web Sites from the Azure...
Date: 07/14/2014
Azure Import/Export Service Error: The provided file doesn’t contain valid drive information
The Windows Azure Import/Export Service enables you to move large amount of data in or out of your...
Date: 07/12/2014
Event ID 2: Session "WindowsAzure-GuestAgent-Metrics" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
You may notice the following error on an Azure VM in the event log under Applications and Services...
Date: 07/09/2014
Unable to add VM agent extension to Azure VM
[Update 7/17/2014] Azure PowerShell 0.8.5 has released which resolves the inability to use VM agent...
Date: 07/01/2014
How to Copy files to/from Azure Storage
If you are looking for a reliable way to copy files to or from Azure storage then this blog post...
Date: 06/28/2014
Use port pings instead of ICMP to test Azure VM connectivity
Because the ICMP protocol is not permitted through the Azure load balancer, you will notice that you...
Date: 06/22/2014
Avoiding allocation failure error in Microsoft Azure
In some cases you may encounter an allocation failure error when you are trying to perform an action...
Date: 06/21/2014
"Installing extensions on virtual machine..." does not complete on Azure VM
[Update 11/11/2014] The VM agent no longer relies on the VM's configured DNS server for name...
Date: 06/18/2014
How to determine Current Guest OS family - Only for Pass Instance (Web Role and Worker Role) Windows Azure PowerShell
Set Up Windows Azure Powershell ....
Date: 05/19/2014
How to move your Windows server VM running on Hyper-V to Microsoft Azure
Note: This blog post comes from Manoj Sehgal, Sr. Support Escalation Engineer from Microsoft Azure...
Date: 05/15/2014
Microsoft Azure datacenter's IP location, shows incorrect location when using IP Geolocation services
If you have looked up the IP that is assigned to your Microsoft Azure deployments using any of the...
Date: 05/09/2014
Install the VM Agent on an existing Azure VM
The Windows Installer MSI package to install the VM Agent on an existing Azure VM is available for...
Date: 04/07/2014
Enable RDP or Reset Password with the VM Agent
[UPDATE 07/17/2014] Make sure you are using version 0.8.5 or later of Azure PowerShell as there was...
Date: 03/06/2014
VM Agent available for Azure VMs
The VM agent for Windows Azure Virtual Machines is now installed by default when creating new VMs in...
Date: 02/17/2014
RDP to Azure VM fails with "No Remote Desktop License Servers available"
You can use mstsc /admin to work around the following licensing error when attempting to connect...
Date: 01/21/2014
SQL Server Configuration Manager error "Invalid class [0x80041010]" on Visual Studio gallery image VM
If you are using the Visual Studio 2013 Gallery image for MSDN subscribers to create an Azure VM and...
Date: 01/18/2014
Unable to create Storage Pool in Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure VM
UPDATE Mar. 10: This issue is now resolved. The fix has been fully deployed to all Windows Azure...
Date: 01/14/2014
Setting up a Passive FTP Server in Windows Azure VM
This post is authored by Lalitesh Kumar, Pradeep M G and reviewed by Avinash Venkat Reddy. Also...
Date: 12/12/2013