I would like to spin up Window server 2012 on medium instance and within the same server i would like to install SQL server (with on premise sql server licence), Is it possible?

Thanks for any help in advance.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17160123/window-server-2012-sql-server-2012-within-single-vm-on-windows-azure

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I would like to spin up Window server 2012 on medium instance and within the same server i would like to install SQL server (with on premise sql server licence), Is it possible?

Thanks for any help in advance.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17160123/window-server-2012-sql-server-withing-single-vm-on-windows-azure

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This is my Azure Script

function insert(item, user, request) {
   request.execute({
        success: function() {
            request.respond();
            sendNotifications();
        }
    });
function sendNotifications() {
    var channelTable = tables.getTable('Channel');
    channelTable.read({
        success: function(channels) {
            channels.forEach(function(channel) {
                push.wns.sendTileWideText01(channel.uri, {

                     text1: item.Name,
                     text2: item.Type,

                }, {
                    success: function(pushResponse) {
                        console.log("Sent push:", pushResponse);
                    }
                });
            });
        }
    });
}

Now i am inserting 6 records into table ,i can see them in my table. But the live tile flips only twice. I thought the expected behavior is it should 6 times. Also the second point is after flipping i expect it to land on the default tile[the tile before push notifications start],but it is stuck on last update to live tile. I am new to store apps dev ,so any help greatly appreciated.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17158811/windows-live-tile-not-flipping-as-expected

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There was no endpoint listening at https://geomaster.azurewebsites.windows.net/subscriptions/2762018c-1ace-4b11-a55d-7b69d004cca3/webspaces/eastuswebspace/sites that could accept the message.

I was able to create 2 sites about 3 months ago without any problem. My subscription is an active pay as you go account. I’m not trying to do anything advanced, just a web site connected to a SQL DB. The SQL DB creates without a problem. I was also able to create a virtual Win2008 machine. Azure reps have said my account is fine. I don’t know where else to look. Thanks
-ph

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157952/cant-create-an-azure-web-site

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I’m using the following command line on a VS2012 post-build event:

/wildcards /targetplatform:"v4,C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETFrameworkv4.0" /log:ILMerge.log /closed Output.exe *.dll /out:Executable.exe

However, I’m getting the following error in ILMerge.log, even though the output window reports no issues at all after building:

The assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime' was not merged in correctly. It is still listed as an external reference in the target assembly.
An exception occurred during merging:
ILMerge.Merge: The assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime' was not merged in correctly. It is still listed as an external reference in the target assembly.
   at ILMerging.ILMerge.Merge()
   at ILMerging.ILMerge.Main(String[] args)

And then the executable throws the following exception when opened:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the 
target of an invocation. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file
or assembly 'msshrtmi, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, publicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
or one of its dependencies.

I have also tested the same output without merging and it works fine.

What am I missing here?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157944/ilmerge-how-to-merge-azure-runtime-library

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When I started out, I had a 120gb VHD with only ~30gb used. I was only getting charged for roughly 1gb per day for Azure. As I filled up the hard drive, the daily usage grew as expected. I ended up using 100gb of the drive and was getting hit with roughly 3.6gb per day from Azure. That makes perfect sense to me.

The other day, I free’d up a lot of space on the VHD and now I only use 30gb again where the other 90gb is free space. However, it seems that I’m still getting charged for roughly 3.6gb per day.

Could someone help explain this to me? Do I need to do something to reclaim the free space? If so, how?

Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157468/how-do-i-reclaim-unused-blob-space-for-my-azure-vhd

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It sounds like a job for a cloud computing platform.

Anil Balakrishnan thought so, too. Balakrishnan is Vice President of Product Solutions at Schakra Inc., a solution provider whose clients include Microsoft and Vodafone. To create such a solution for an appraisal management company, Schakra teamed with Bradford Technologies and Nasoft. The result is a Unified Collateral Data Portal (UCDP™) submission service, called PortalDirect™, which Balakrishnan says is the first of its kind.

When they created the service, Balakrishnan and his colleagues had a choice of cloud-computing platforms and they considered their choice carefully, including Amazon SQS with SNS, SimpleDB, and S3. But they chose Windows Azure.

“The driving factors for us to use Windows Azure were the familiar developer experience and the community support,” he says. “Furthermore, our extensive knowledge and experience in the .NET Framework and other Microsoft technologies made it easier for us to work with Windows Azure and its platform services, and to overcome development challenges without needing custom solutions.”

Mortgage lenders and other users access PortalDirect to submit their appraisal orders, which are processed through a multi-step workflow integrated with third-party services. To coordinate those services within the workflow, the developers chose a message-oriented architecture. Each service exchanges messages with PortalDirect to communicate the action that each participant has to take to advance the workflow. This messaging-based architecture lends itself to a stateless system that enables massive scale across identical nodes without the need to maintain a node-workflow affinity.

In designing PortalDirect, the developers kept three needs top-of-mind:

• Scalability, as measured by system throughput.
• Reliability and availability, to support the business needs of the financial services users.
• Fault tolerance, defined as the ability to recover gracefully and without data loss from the inevitable transient failures that occur in workflows with many components and services.

The developers used Windows Azure—and, in particular, Windows Azure Service Bus—to help meet these needs.  The Service Bus offers out-of-the-box features to implement a message-based asynchronous and stateless workflow. This is the key architectural element of the solution and is served by Service Bus topics and queues. The developers used Service Bus topics, for example, to implement a publish/subscribe architecture. They used queue-based messaging to load-balance system components efficiently and to protect the workflow from transient failures in those components. That helps meet the needs for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.

According to Balakrishnan, the Service Bus was an easy choice, as well as an effective one, in part because of its API. “The API is designed to be easy to use and, for the most part, self-explanatory,” he says. “It offers a good choice of client libraries/techniques that we used for all sorts of scenarios, such as .NET client libraries and examples to create our own WCF/REST clients. The documentation—for example, MSDN articles on performance tuning and best practices—helped us to build a world-class system.”

Schakra began to roll out the PortalDirect service to its customers in August 2011 and says the system has functioned effortlessly ever since. The PortalDirect has processed more than 110,000 appraisals to date and supports, on average, more than 1,800 transactions per business day.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/06/17/windows-azure-service-bus-drives-high-availability-scalability-for-financial-services-portal.aspx

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Here is the code to it.

protected override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs args)
        {
 string launchstring = args.Arguments;
            if (lauchstring=="InstructionSet"")
            {

              rootFrame.Navigate(typeof(InstructionSet));
            }
}

The code checks Arguments passed from Azure for “Instructonset” strign and launches that page.

Here is my Azure code

 push.wns.sendTileWideSmallImageAndText04(channel.uri, {
                     image1src: item.imageUrl,
                     text1: item.componentName,
                     text2:item.alarmType,
                     audiosrc:'ms-winsoundevent:Notification.Looping.Call', audioloop:'false'
                }, {
                    success: function(pushResponse) {
                        console.log("Sent push:", pushResponse);
                    },launch:"launch_url"
                });

The notification appears but clicking on it doesnt do anything.What i am doing wrong here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157006/launching-an-app-when-user-click-son-toast-using-onlaunched-event

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The problem comes when I run any command that tries to connect to my Azure subscription, for example:

PS > Get-AzureLocation

Get-AzureLocation : Please connect to internet before executing this cmdlet

I have internet connection in my machine and my execution policy is RemoteSigned.

Any ideas?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17156435/unable-to-connect-to-windows-azure-from-powershell-azure-powershell-module

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http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/01/17/step-by-step-building-a-windows-server-2012-active-directory-forest-in-the-cloud-with-windows-azure.aspx#.Ub9O6PnbNPQ

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/networking/add-a-vm-to-a-virtual-network/

After VM is provisioned, I changed the public RDP port back to 3389 which is opened in my environment.

After all this setup I cannot RDP into the new VM from my environment.

I have an old VM which is not part of the virtual network and I can RDP into from my environment, so this confirms that port 3389 is not blocked.

I then RDP into the old VM and then RDP into the new VM, and it works!

I don’t want to make any conclusions but it seems to me that once in virtual network it is not possible to connect to VM via public DNS. This contradicts with statement

Connectivity to the internet: You will still enjoy the ability to
connect services hosted in virtual networks to the internet through
the public IP address that has been assigned for your service.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj156007.aspx

Can anyone confirm or reject my assumption?

Thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17154849/vm-in-virtual-network-cannot-rdp-via-public-dns

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