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Passive FTP and dynamic ports in IIS8 and Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Today Windows Azure supports up to 150 endpoints which is great for those applications that rely on persistent connections, like an FTP Server. You can run an FTP Server in 2 modes: Active mode: The...
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Adding multiple endpoints to your Windows Azure Virtual Machines by using a...
In order to manage endpoints of a Virtual Machine you have 2 options: use the portal or use Powershell. If you use the portal it’s not so easy to add a list or a range or ports, you would need to add...
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Securing access to your Windows Azure Virtual Machines
A few days ago Alan Smith (Windows Azure MVP) started a discussion about the “Virtual Machine hacking” thread on the MSDN forum and how we could protect our Virtual Machines. Let’s take a look at our...
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Browse and use images from the VM Depot in the Windows Azure Portal
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the release of the VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of VM Images. Deploying a Virtual Machine with an image from the VM Depot was pretty easy: Download/Upload...
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Using Remote Powershell with Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Update: I created a script which makes this a lot easier, you can find it in my next blog post (Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure Virtual Machines on your...
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Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure...
In my last post I explained how to leverage the support for Remote PowerShell in your Windows Azure Virtual Machines. While this is fairly easy to setup, it can get a little boring if you need to...
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Reference implementation: Creating a hybrid cloud with Windows Azure Virtual...
After Microsoft announced software based Site-to-Site VPN support between Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Windows Server 2012 Routing And Remote Access I wrote a blog post on how easy it is to...
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Using PowerShell Web Access to manage your Windows Azure Virtual Machines and...
PowerShell Web Access is a new feature of Windows Server 2012 which provides you a web-based PowerShell console. This diagram from the Deploy Windows PowerShell Web Access article on TechNet gives you...
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Calculating how much storage space a Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disk is...
When working with Virtual Machines in Windows Azure, the disks (VHDs) are persisted as Page Blobs in your Storage Account (excepted for the temporary disk). These page blobs are stored in sparse format...
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Release unused space from your Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disks to reduce...
A few weeks ago Mike Wood talked about the TRIM support for Windows Azure Virtual Machines: TRIM Support comes to Windows Azure Virtual Machines. In his post Mike explains how a feature similar to TRIM...
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Running a legacy OS in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine (Windows XP, Windows...
This article will show what’s technically possible in terms of running a legacy OS in Windows Azure. You also need to be aware that running a Desktop Operating System in a public cloud is not allowed...
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Migrating your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine to a different subnet with the...
In the past you had to redeploy your Virtual Machine when you wanted to change the subnet in which the machine was deployed. There could be a few reasons why you would need to change the subnet for a...
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Customizing your Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines with the new CustomScript...
After you deploy a Virtual Machine you typically need to make some changes before it’s ready to use. This is something you can do manually or you could use Remote PowerShell to automate the...
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Manually installing the VM Agent on your older Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Yesterday I covered the new CustomScript extension for the VM Agent and in today’s post we’ll continue on the VM Agent topic. The VM Agent was introduced a few weeks ago with support to install it when...
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Migrating your Windows Server 2003 workloads to Microsoft Azure
A few weeks ago I explained how you could run any legacy OS in Microsoft Azure using Virtual Box. This was OK for testing purposes but not really suited for actually migrating resources to Microsoft...
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