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Adventures with Azure Resource Manager Part I

Overview In this series of blog posts I will create ARM templates used to provision Azure resources. I will kick things off by creating a template that shows you have to create multiple storage accounts. It also shows: How to … Continue reading

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Azure SDK 2.6 Diagnostics Improvements for Cloud Services

I haven’t blogged for a while because of being very busy at work. Things are slowing down a bit so I will try to write more frequently. History Azure SDK 2.5 made big changes to Azure diagnostics. It introduced Azure … Continue reading

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Azure Usage monitoring with Azure Automation

When you purchase an Azure subscription it comes with usage caps for various resources. As an example the usage cap for number of cores is 20. You can call use Azure Support and open a free billing support case to … Continue reading

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Deleting orphan disks in Windows Azure

Microsoft updated Windows Azure Portal yesterday to make it easier to delete all Virtual Machines for a Cloud Service along with its associated VHD’s. Previously when you deleted virtual machines you had to manually delete the disks associated with this VHD. … Continue reading

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Setting up DMZ in Windows Azure

Microsoft released many enhancements to Windows Azure Platform at TechEd last week. You can find a good summary of these enhancements below: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-azure-announcing-new-dev-test-offering-biztalk-services-ssl-support-with-web-sites-ad-improvements-per-minute-billing.aspx   They also released a new feature that will allow you to set Access control lists on public … Continue reading

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