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Azure websites (PaaS) versus IIS on VMs (IaaS)
IaaS versus PaaS will be a choice you will often be faced with. In general, you will be better off starting with PaaS (quicker provisioning and near-zero maintenance). For some…
Azure – Failed to Create Virtual Machine
Usually, Azure gives meaningful messages when a VM creation fails. However, for a while, I was getting a non-descript error message Failed to Create Virtual Machine (clicking on details also…
Azure Automation Service ( can save you money )
Peak Usage Hours (for your web application) If your usage hours for your IaaS instances (VMs) or Azure Website is going to be 7 AM to 7 PM, you should…
Creating a Virtual Network in Azure
1. Creating a Virtual Network in Azure - and adding your VM instances to that networkCreate a Virtual Network 2. Create your new VMs with the configuration you require ( A3…
Uploading large files to Azure (or AWS ) VM
Small files You should be able COPY and PASTE from your desktop to the Remote Desktop (Azure VM). Large Files – Using Azure’s Storage Service Azure offers a storage service…
Connecting from Azure to on premise Active Directory
Azure has a new offering – Azure AD Connect You need an AD Admin from your enterprise to set this ; It is a fairly straightforward wizard driven process.
CNames versus A Records versus ALIASES
All three (CNames, A Records and Aliases) map names to IP Addresses. The difference between these is: The A record maps a name to one or more IP addresses, when…
WordPress on Azure–Some Tips
I finally dumped GoDaddy for hosting wordpress (they removed the ability for customers to create support tickets, and somehow promised that this would be a good thing (it wasn’t) and…