Hey everyone,

TL;DR -- /r/WindowsAzure will be merging with /r/Azure. Posting will be disabled in /r/WindowsAzure on 12/16 at midnight EST.

Over the last couple of weeks the Mods of both Azure subreddits have been discussing combining forces to create a single subreddit where people will be able to learn about Azure products, ask questions to each other, engage with Azure Engineers, and not have to think "which one should I post on?" or cross posting.

If you're not subscribed to /r/Azure it is simply a "Subscribe" click. /r/WindowsAzure will be an auto-redirect to /r/Azure, you can also simple click "Unsubscribe" from /r/WindowsAzure.

It should be noted that as a result of this merge, the mod teams have been merged.

So why did we choose /r/Azure over /r/WindowsAzure? Both subreddits were relatively similar is size (as we write this post the numbers are 1,430 and 1,443 respectively). With the official name changing from "Windows Azure" to "Microsoft Azure", we figured "Azure" was shortest. Recent AMA's on /r/Azure have created an uptick in Azure Engineers being involved on the /r/Azure forum.

Will anything change? The goal is that the subreddit will continue to grow. As moderators, we don't have anything planned that will to limit/censor/modify anything. We are mainly software developers with a vested interest in keeping the sub sane.

We thank everyone for the patience in the transition, and will do anything to make this as quick and easy as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to message the moderators.

EDIT Sept. 8th, 2016

Clarified that we decided against an auto-redirect as we felt the history of this sub was valuable and should remain viewable.

I'm trying to deploy my php website(using Laravel framework) on azure, I've uploaded all the files to site/wwwroot folder. I have dreamspark subscription. Would really appriciate the help.

Does adding a new Local Network to my existing VNet interrupt the network at all?

Using Aws extensively for past one year, we have migrated one of our projects to Azure. It has been a comfortable transition for me as we just required a couple of ubuntu linux boxes. I want to clear some of the things, if someone can answer this following quick questions it would be helpful

1. first of all I think that Azure does not a have a concept of like VPC everything runs on Azure private network right?

2)Just like Aws ec2 had a instance store volumes, before how does it work in Azure. Do all my instances are running on volumes similar to EBS 3) Also can I change my instance size? 4) Also what about backups, how does Azure handles this is it like Aws Ami

Basically what I am looking for AWS EC2 to Azure Equivalents features

Currently I am using 2 different tools to manage my Azure Storage Accounts because I cannot find one that does it all. I currently use Azure Storage Explorer because of how it operates with Table Storage, but I do not like how it handles folders in blob containers (it doesn't show the existence of folders). I use Cloud Berry because of how it handles folders in blob containers, but it does not work with Table Storage at all. Is there a tool out there that does it all?

To give some background, I have been a professional dev in the Microsoft platform for 16 years. I have used azure a little but I want to have a very solid grasp on what it offers.

I want enough info in my head so I could consult on it. So my question is: What are some good resources? Starting from the basics, what ate soon good books or online resources?

Thank you all in advance.

Most of our website hosting (around 100 sites) is done via Azure Web Apps, sometimes with a SQL Database (Azure) behind them. These are small to medium size builds...nothing to brag about.

We have a larger client that is requiring as near 100% uptime as we can reasonably get to...we'll call it foobar.com.

Background/current scenario, and some history: Current hosting environment is intended to be local as well as geo redundant... 2 datacenters (we'll call them DCA and DCB) with 2 web servers with a Sitefinity CMS/site (DCAWEBA and DCAWEBB, etc.) and a database server (DCADB, DCBDB) in each data center (3 servers in each DC). There is a load balancer in each data center as well...pretty typical.

Recently, we've had major outages in our primary datacenter (DCA) rendering the entire environment being inaccessible.

The intent was that we could/would "easily" failover traffic to DCB resulting in little to no downtime for the URL.

What we discovered is that foobar.com is pointed at the DCA load balancer...and to point at DCB would require a DNS change (new IP address), which would mean working w/ client's IT workflow...resulting in several days turnaround for results; a very painful option we try to avoid.

We're working with the current provider to figure out how to get traffic to DCB without a DNS update (could be a LB "in front of" the 2 datacenters)...

In the meantime, we're considering alternative hosting providers.

I'm a big fan of Azure...I just haven't implemented something of this level yet on Azure. I know it can be done, but just looking/hoping for some guidance on how to get it right the first time.

What are your recommendations to provide the "equivalent" of a locally redundant as well as geo-redundant environment for this client?

I know Azure has the concept of update domains, regions, etc...but haven't been able to get into the weeds on how to set things up in order to get maximum uptime.

The goal would be to have foobar.com point at an IP address...and behind the scenes is a geo redundant database configuration, with geo and local redundant web-servers/VMs along with it.

I also know that there may be some shifting in thought needed w/ the capabilities of Azure/cloud...open to those lessons as well.

Here's my understanding of what I need to build/do thus far:

• Pick 2 regions.
• Build/configure 2 VM's in each of the regions (hoping/assuming there's a way to build the 1st one, and clone the others from there)
• Restore current DB to Sql Azure (Is there a need for "geo redundancy" here w/ Sql Azure's capabilities?)

This gets me (close) to geo and local redundant environments...but I'm drawing a blank on how to load balance and/or auto-failover between/among them.

Any help/feedback is greatly appreciated!

We only have a handful of dev server in azure at the moment. When you guys create your VMs in azure do you create a new cloud service for each one?

So say you are creating 3 vms to be used for testing that are completely unrelated. Would you create 3 vms and 3 separate cloud services or would you configure these some other way?

Just a little confused on the process.

Thanks

I would like to make a version of postman /Fiddler(sortof) where the users goes to an online data entry page and submits the following data to a service. POST, request , headers, TIME to test. Where time ti test is an interval to check if the service is returning valid data.

the consume rest functions are easy thanks to HTTPcontent and restSharp, the timing thing is confusing so I am thinking I can use Azures WebJobs to test the data at a different time, and some DB to store the results.

But then I thought I was reinventing the wheel until I saw RestSharp is there a way for this to be done with other tools ?

I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience as me. I am trying to RDP into a CLoud Service VM to troubleshoot. I can download the RDP file just fine, but if I try to connect to the VM using Remote Desktop Connection Manager, it denies the connection. If I use the public IP of the VM, it cannot establish connection. Does anyone use a RDP Manager with Azure Cloud Services, or is this not supported?

If you have web services built using WCF, can they be ported over to App Services as an API App or a Web App (WCF hosted in IIS)? Most examples I see online show WCF services running in Worker Roles in Cloud Services. I'm wondering if my client's APIs will need to be refactored/rewritten to use Web API if they want to move to App Services.

Come on!

Has anyone experience any throttling with Windows Azure VPN P2S connections?

I have an Azure VM 2008 server with SQL installed as well as a temp VM on the same Virtual Network. If I use my application from my client machine connecting through the VPN, it can take upwards to 25 minutes to run a query. If I use the exact same application, running the exact same query on the VM, it completes in under 45 seconds.

Curious to see if anyone has experienced similar issues.

Thanks

I'd like to develop (or find) a PS script to dump all data in a subscription. Including all VNets, Subnets, NSGs, and other ISSA and PAAS data. Is there a cmdlet that allows you to just dump all that data for post-processing? Any tips?

Thanks

Hi, I run Ubuntu. Need windows server. Going to get Azure trial.

To connect to your VM you download a RDP file and it opens up the windows RDP manager, what would I do on linux to connect?

Thanks

I posted these in my blog but thought I'd share them here as well. These are some of the recent learning resources that I've come across from Microsoft.

• Developer Tools Download
• AzureCon On-Demand Videos
• A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft
• AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center
• Five questions to ask when choosing an IoT provider for your business
• Windows 10 development for absolute beginners
• Zero to Continuous Deployment of Dockerized App for Dev-Test in Azure
• Platform As A Service, Ease of Use, Rich Features Make Microsoft Azure Awesome
• Preparing your Enterprise for Windows 10 as a Service
• What's new in Windows Server 2016 Preview

Share and Enjoy!

I am developing a website using C#/EntityFramework/MVC. I succesfully deployed it to some test Azure backend, everything woks. But I did this using some tutorial, and I din't understand too much. Where can I go for a "human" documentation of Azure? I would like to know more about scaling, synchronization, backup. Can you recommend some links, books, etc?

I'm part of a team that's developing an easy to use cloud infrastructure (IaaS) cost estimate tool called Skycalculator. The idea is to make comparative cost estimates easy between various different providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, and others. We're in an open beta at the moment and we're interested in feedback. https://www.skycalculator.com