Troubleshooting Performance Issues with Cloud Services (PaaS) – Data Collection
Collecting right data at the right time is the most critical part of troubleshooting any sort of Performance issues, especially when the issue is intermittent and you can't reproduce this at will....
View ArticleAzure Blob Storage operations with Storage Python SDK
This blog describes how to perform the basic operations on blobs using the Python API. We’ll be using Python API provided in Azure SDK to achieve the following functionalities. Create a container...
View ArticleHow to fix Load Balancer not working in Round-robin fashion for your Cloud...
Issue: I recently came across a case where customer has an issue that the Load balancer of his cloud service is not working in round robin basis. He confirmed that by seeing more number of requests...
View ArticleHow to retrieve Job action settings of Scheduler Job using Powershell
Sometimes, we may have a requirement to retrieve the job action details of your scheduled job in the Scheduler job collections using Powershell. There are no direct options available in PowerShell to...
View ArticleHow to fix, the namespace name is previously used in another project and has...
When you have multiple subscriptions, sometimes you create namespace in some another subscription rather than the one in which you exactly wanted to create. Some of the customers delete the namespace...
View ArticleHow to add missing resource types in azure
Some of you may get this error “Handling the error ‘The subscription ‘xxxxxx’ is not registered for resource types ‘Microsoft.ServiceBus/namespaces’. (Code: MissingRegistrationsForTypes)” when trying...
View ArticleTroubleshooting: Azure Auto-scale profile does not change
Sometimes customers are faced with situation with Auto Scale, where they try to update or delete the Auto Scale Profile but the previous Profile keeps coming back. Generally, this occurs due to...
View ArticleCan we use set-query-parameter policy inside send-request policy? -No
Several times you come across a situation where you should use send-request policy to make use of an external service to perform complex processing functions and return data to the API management...
View ArticleHow to protect an API in Azure APIM using Azure Active Directory.
This article is intended to summarize a very common scenario where we would like to authenticate an API using OAuth2.0 authentication using azure AD and Azure API Management. There exist a simple and...
View ArticleDetect backend api response latency using APIM policy
Recently I had a query from a developer asking is there a way to identify response time by backend API by using Azure API management policy expression. There is no direct policy expression which tracks...
View ArticleAzure Management Certificates and Publishing Setting file with CSP Subscriptions
In this post I will talk about a limitation of Azure CSP Subscriptions that makes users unable to work with Azure Management Certificates and Publishing Setting files. Azure Management Certificates...
View ArticleOn deploying cloud service, users sometimes receives alerts notifying WAS has...
Problem: IIS fails to start, Throws the error : “The World Wide Web Publishing Service service depends on the Windows Process Activation Service service which failed to start because of the following...
View ArticleCloud services are not available in this subscription
You recently got a permission for a given subscription on Azure and when you try to deploy a new cloud service on Visual Studio 2015 you are getting the error “Cloud Services are not available in this...
View ArticleCloud Services PaaS – Common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration
This article is intended to summarize a few common scenarios for SSL certificate configuration on Cloud Services PaaS. It will cover configuration of multiples certificates for HTTPS communication and...
View ArticleUsing blob snapshots with PowerShell
Sometime ago, I had a customer who asked me the way to create a blob snapshot of an Azure VM. The process for create a blob snapshot was clear for the customer and you can read the next blog as a...
View ArticleAzure Emulator Crash with error 0x800700b7: Cannot create a file when that...
Sometimes when you are using Visual Studio and working on some Azure projects, you might hit an issue which cause your Azure emulator to crash. When that happens, you will get the...
View ArticleUnderstanding CPU metric data from Azure Cloud Services.
In this article we will learn how to interpret the CPU metric in both the Azure Portal as well as in the Windows Azure Diagnostic (WAD) tables and understand the differences between data in WAD tables...
View ArticleAzure Cloud Service package gets automatically deleted after Azure Account...
You may get into a situation when you have some kind of issue with your Azure Subscription (e.g. you have reached the spending limit, issues with the credit card and etc.) and your account will get...
View ArticleError “Access to the path ‘E:sitesrootWeb.config’ is denied” when storing...
I have worked on a scenario where a Web Role application which had been working fine for a long time just started throwing the error “Access to the path ‘E:\sitesroot\0\Web.config’ is denied” without...
View ArticleWebhooks for Azure Alerts – Creating a sample ASP.NET receiver application
Microsoft Azure recently announced support for webhooks on Azure Alerts. Now you can provide an https endpoints to receive webhooks while creating an alert in the Azure portal. Webhooks are user...
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