Azure SQL Database announcements
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Folks,
If you are using SQL Data Sync and need to ask something related to an issue you maybe encountering, then please add the below details in your post. This helps to look at the logs and help troubleshoot instead of multiple back and forth posts.
Server id: Your server id
Region: Where your Data Sync Server is located/created
Time / Date: Date and time when you encountered the issue
Tracing Id: The tracing id you see in the message in UI
Thanks,
Mahesh
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Hi all,
We have successfully performed service maintenance on SQL Data Sync service in US North Central region. We plan to conduct the same update in other Data Sync data centers from 09/16 US PST to 09/30 US PST.
Sync groups in these regions may encounter intermittent sync interruptions. On premise SQL Data Sync agents may go offline during the service maintenance. In the event of agents going offline, users will need to restart the offline agents after the maintenance period. Agents should be back online after the restart. Sync operations should continue as normal.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. This service update includes a few internal technology updates. We hope to bring greater running experience to you through the update.
Thank you for your continued interests in SQL Data Sync.
Thanks,
SQL Data Sync
Azure Startups announcements
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Welcome to the Startups support Forum. a place for startups to ask questions, get answers, post advice, tips and lessons learned by startups and for startups.
We will do our best to monitor this forum and answer the questions in a timely manner.
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication announcements
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Identity and access management is an anchor for security and top of mind for enterprise IT departments. It is key to extending anytime, anywhere access to employees, partners, and customers. Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is now available to deliver increased access security and convenience for IT and end users.
In addition to entering a username and password during sign in, users also authenticate with the Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication app on their mobile device or via an automated phone call or text message. In order for an attacker to gain access to the user’s account, they would need to know the user’s login credentials and be in possession of the user’s phone. This increases security while using mobile devices and methods that are familiar to users.
For more information, see the article: Announcing General Availability of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
Azure Active Directory announcements
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Identity Friends:
As part of our launch today, we have updated all our documentation to help you better use our platform. We took your feedback during the Preview period and have released all new samples, walk-throughs, and API documentation. We have also consolidated all of our documentation in one area, MSDN. We are no longer spread across WindowsAzure.com and MSDN for different topics.
We will be releasing more samples as the weeks progress.
Check out the documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj673460.aspx
As always, let us know what issues you find in the forums and feedback mechanism in the documentation.
Thanks!
Brandon.
Azure Storage, CDN and Caching announcements
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When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/
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Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/
Workflow Manager 1.0 announcements
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Welcome to the discussion forum for the Workflow Manager 1.0 Beta release (also referred to as Windows Azure Workflow). Workflow Manager provides hosting and management capabilities on top of the Windows Workflow Foundation. It also powers workflows in SharePoint 2013 and the next version of Office 365. You can install the Workflow Manager from the Web Platform Installer. Documentation and samples can be found on MSDN here. We look forward to your questions and feedback.
Service Bus announcements
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Check the latest update to Service Bus explorer at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a
Beside many new features which were recently added to Service Bus and now available in the tool, the tool now supports both cloud and on-premise versions for Service Bus !
Azure Development announcements
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The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you're logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.
And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
Azure Virtual Machines announcements
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Some Azure customers may have noticed that for a VM deployed in a US region, when they launch a localized page on a web browser it may redirect them to an international site. The following explains why this may be happening. More details and explanation can be found here
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/11/windows-azures-use-of-non-us-ipv4-address-space-in-us-regions/
Corey
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Want to learn how to build and deploy apps running SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines? Or find out how to move existing on-premises databases and applications to the cloud as-is? Watch these demo-rich learning sessions featuring migration tools and a sample app that utilizes both Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services.”
Azure BizTalk Services announcements
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1. Custom domain names for BizTalk Services
Custom domain names allow you to assign existing domain names like http://www.contoso.com to the BizTalk Services deployment instead of using the default *.biztalk.windows.net URLs. As part of BizTalk Services creation, a private certificate (.pfx) that matches the custom domain name needs to be uploaded. By default, the BizTalk Services create wizard in the Azure portal uses the BizTalk Service URL as the customer domain URL.
We are glad to report that we upgraded our bits on 9th July 2013, to fix the Custom domain issue and this should be working for everyone. Please let us know via the forum's if this is not the case.
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- SDKs, EDI Schemas & Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39087
- Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
- Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx and http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/biztalk-services/
- BizTalk Portal: https://portal.biztalk.windows.net/
- BizTalk Server Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/
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Windows Azure BizTalk Services environment will be updated this week as part of the BizTalk Services upgrade. Management operations on BizTalk Services (e.g. Scale) and trading partner management from portal may be unavailable for a period of 48 hours starting 9PM PST 11/11/13.
Configurations and runtime messaging of existing deployments will continue to remain functional without any impact. During this update, customers on Developer Edition may also face downtime for 15-20 minutes this week.
If you face any issues, please report the same at the BizTalk Services forum
Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn232393.aspx
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/biztalk-services/dashboard-monitor-scale-tabs/
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The responses for WABS so far has been quite positive. Within a short amount of time, we have reached the initial capacity that we planned to auto-approve. While we were clearly not expecting such phenomenal response, it is a good problem for us to have. We are in the process of manually clearing out the pending queue. Meanwhile, if you want to speed this up for your subscription, drop an email to wabssignup@microsoft.com with a brief note on what you are intending to do. We shall try to take that up in priority.
Also go through the following BizTalk Services blog post in case you are running into any issue creating a WABS instance for yourself after your queued request has been approved.
For any issues with your usage post in this forum and we will get back to you.
Azure Mobile Services announcements
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We are happy to announce that you can now log feature requests for Mobile Services on Uservoice. We would love to hear your feedback about the features we should be looking into:
http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/216254-mobile-services
Thanks.
Dinesh
Azure Media Services announcements
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We have a User Voice site that we have been using for IIS Media Services on-premises for many years that we would like to direct our customers to post new feature requests and vote on features for Azure Media Services as well. We decided to mix the customer feature list, as many of the same feature requests will impact both our cloud and on-premises solutions for Media Services.
Please post your feature requests to our User Voice Media Services site here:
http://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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You can now monitor your usage of On-Demand Streaming for your media services accounts via the following three metrics that are now available via the Azure Media Services dashboard.
Streaming Data Out - Indicates how many Bytes of egress data has been used for On-Demand Streaming.
Streaming HTTP Errors - Indicates how many HTTP Errors have occured. This includes server errors (e.g. HTTP 500 caused by blob store or a media services component) as well as typical client errors (e.g. HTTP 404 or 403). In a future update we will provide additional granularity so that you can track these errors individually.
Streaming Requests - Indicates how many requests for data have been made for on-demand streaming.
If there are other metrics that you would like to see available for on-demand streaming, add the request to our uservoice board - https://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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We just released Windows Azure Media Services .NET SDK via Nuget: https://nuget.org/packages/windowsazure.mediaservices/
There are two versions listed there:
- .NET SDK 2.2.0.1:
- Storage 2.0 upgrade: we make our SDK compatible with storage SDK 2.0 now
- Notification APIs: adding encoding notification APIs enables you to monitor your encoding progress
- .NET SDK 2.1.0.0:
- It depends on storage 1.7 with notification APIs for encoding
We also made our .NET SDK open source on Github: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-media-services.
We will be taking contributions and if you found any issues, please report to issue tab and we will triage regularly: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-media-services/issues?state=open.
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By default every Media Services account can scale up to a max of 5 Encoding and 5 On-Demand Streaming Reserved Units. You can request a higher limit via a support ticket if your business needs are not met with 5. Note that billing will still be based on the actual number of Reserved Units you have provisioned in your account. In other words, if your max is 50 Encoding Reserved Units in your account but you scale it down to 10 you will only billed for 10.
To open a support ticket please following the instruction below
1) Log in to your Azure account at http://manage.windowsazure.com
2) Go to http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/contact/
3) Click on "Get Support"
4) Select your subscription
5) Under support type select "Technical"
6) Click on "Create Ticket"
7) Select "Windows Azure Media Services" in the product list presented on the next page
8) Select "Media Processing" as "Problem type" and then select "Reservation Units" under category
9) Click Continue
10) Follow instructions on next page and then enter details about how many Reserved Units you need and which kind (i.e. Encoding or On-Demand Streaming).
11) Click submit and you are done with opening your ticket
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We have released to codeplex an open source tool that can be used for mirroring assets between two WAMS accounts. One of the primary use cases for the tool is to implement streaming redundancy across two geo-diverse data centers.
Here is the project link: https://replicator.codeplex.com/
And this is a helpful blog:
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WAMS Service Management APIs are now live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn167014.aspx
Feedback welcome
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Please refer to my blog for breaking changes for WAMS .NET SDK GA.
http://mingfeiy.com/breaking-changes-for-windows-azure-media-services-ga/
Please let me know if you couldn't follow it to fix your code.
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Starting today, January 14, 2013 the following media processors have updated version numbers and GUID identifiers. The task presets for the Windows Azure Media Encoder remain unchanged from the last update.
Media Processor Version GUID Storage Decryption 1.5.3 aec03716-7c5e-4f68-b592-f4850eba9f10 Windows Azure Media Encoder 2.2.0.0 70bdc2c3-ebf4-42a9-8542-5afc1e55d217 Windows Azure Media Packager 2.2.0.0 a2f9afe9-7146-4882-a5f7-da4a85e06a93 Windows Azure Media Encryptor 2.2.0.0 38a620d8-b8dc-4e39-bb2e-7d589587232b Additionally the REST API version 1.0 will be deprecated. This means that if you are using the version 1.0 of the .Net SDK it will begin to fail. You should update immediately to the most recent version of the SDK by using the NuGet package. See the NuGet package announcement below.
DNS and Traffic Manager announcements
Azure Backup announcements
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Windows Azure Backup supports Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. For more details on SKU list, please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj573031.aspx#BKMK_testsrv.
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Please Do Not install DPM 2012 SP1 UR3. There are couple of regressions under investigation. Detailed information is present here.
This might have impact on DPM backup Azure.
UPDATE
=====The System Center 2012 Sp1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13. You can simply install the new UR3 re-released package available here:
Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager (KB2877075)
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2877075The new DPM version will now be 4.1.3417.0 after applying this update.
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Please follow the instructions @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/171fe77a-8686-4dd1-a45a-b44df729b40b
MakeCert.exe is available as part of the Windows SDK, which you can download from one of the below links:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=84091.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa386968(v=vs.85).aspxYou can install Windows SDK and select option “Tools” under “.Net Development” and unchecked everything else for installing makecert.exe only.
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Here are some of the blogs which have been released on Windows Azure Online Backup.
1. Windows Azure Online Backup Preview for Windows Server 2012 - http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup.aspx
2. Integration with System Center 2012 SP1 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup-now-supports-system-center-2012-sp1.aspx
3. Integration with Windows Server 2012 Essentials - http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/09/18/windows-azure-online-backup-and-windows-server-2012-essentials.aspx
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With the General Availability of Windows Azure Backup we have made several reliability improvements to ensure you are able to meet your offsite cloud backup needs. There will be no impact to your backups as Windows Azure Backup moves from preview to General Availability. You can continue
managing cloud backups from familiar backup tools in Windows Server, Windows Server Essentials, or the Data Protection Manager component of Microsoft System Center. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of the Windows Azure Backup agent.Please download and install the update from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=229525.
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Azure SQL Database announcements
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Folks,
If you are using SQL Data Sync and need to ask something related to an issue you maybe encountering, then please add the below details in your post. This helps to look at the logs and help troubleshoot instead of multiple back and forth posts.
Server id: Your server id
Region: Where your Data Sync Server is located/created
Time / Date: Date and time when you encountered the issue
Tracing Id: The tracing id you see in the message in UI
Thanks,
Mahesh
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Hi all,
We have successfully performed service maintenance on SQL Data Sync service in US North Central region. We plan to conduct the same update in other Data Sync data centers from 09/16 US PST to 09/30 US PST.
Sync groups in these regions may encounter intermittent sync interruptions. On premise SQL Data Sync agents may go offline during the service maintenance. In the event of agents going offline, users will need to restart the offline agents after the maintenance period. Agents should be back online after the restart. Sync operations should continue as normal.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. This service update includes a few internal technology updates. We hope to bring greater running experience to you through the update.
Thank you for your continued interests in SQL Data Sync.
Thanks,
SQL Data Sync
Azure Startups announcements
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Welcome to the Startups support Forum. a place for startups to ask questions, get answers, post advice, tips and lessons learned by startups and for startups.
We will do our best to monitor this forum and answer the questions in a timely manner.
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication announcements
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Identity and access management is an anchor for security and top of mind for enterprise IT departments. It is key to extending anytime, anywhere access to employees, partners, and customers. Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is now available to deliver increased access security and convenience for IT and end users.
In addition to entering a username and password during sign in, users also authenticate with the Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication app on their mobile device or via an automated phone call or text message. In order for an attacker to gain access to the user’s account, they would need to know the user’s login credentials and be in possession of the user’s phone. This increases security while using mobile devices and methods that are familiar to users.
For more information, see the article: Announcing General Availability of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
Azure Active Directory announcements
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Identity Friends:
As part of our launch today, we have updated all our documentation to help you better use our platform. We took your feedback during the Preview period and have released all new samples, walk-throughs, and API documentation. We have also consolidated all of our documentation in one area, MSDN. We are no longer spread across WindowsAzure.com and MSDN for different topics.
We will be releasing more samples as the weeks progress.
Check out the documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj673460.aspx
As always, let us know what issues you find in the forums and feedback mechanism in the documentation.
Thanks!
Brandon.
Azure Storage, CDN and Caching announcements
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When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/
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Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/
Workflow Manager 1.0 announcements
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Welcome to the discussion forum for the Workflow Manager 1.0 Beta release (also referred to as Windows Azure Workflow). Workflow Manager provides hosting and management capabilities on top of the Windows Workflow Foundation. It also powers workflows in SharePoint 2013 and the next version of Office 365. You can install the Workflow Manager from the Web Platform Installer. Documentation and samples can be found on MSDN here. We look forward to your questions and feedback.
Service Bus announcements
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Check the latest update to Service Bus explorer at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a
Beside many new features which were recently added to Service Bus and now available in the tool, the tool now supports both cloud and on-premise versions for Service Bus !
Azure Development announcements
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Link
The SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric teams have forums setup specifically for support & feedback of their products in CTP and Labs. These forums should be reserved for conversations only while the product/feature/version is not a production release. Along with community members providing answers, these forums are supported by the product groups.
You can find these forums with the descriptions of what they cover under the Windows Azure Platform - CTPs, Betas & Labs forum category.
Currently, the Windows Azure Betas & CTPs (XS instances, VM Roles & Windows Azure Connect) are supported under the primary Windows Azure Platform forums .
Thank you,Brian Aurich - Windows Azure Community PM
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You might find this new MSDN article interesing: it compares two types of structured storage supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Table Storage and Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure). The goal of this article is to provide a comparison of the respective technologies so that you can understand the similarities and differences between them. This analysis can help you make a more informed decision about which technology best meets your specific requirements.
Check it out and please do rate the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553018.
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of hands-on labs and videos that are designed to help you quickly learn how to use Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Course is available here and includes a link to the latest offline training kit.
Wade Wegner provides information about the September update in his blog here.
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As posted on the Windows Azure Team Blog:
The Windows Azure Platform MSDN forums provide free online community support for Windows Azure and SQL Azure developers from Microsoft insiders, MVP's, and like-minded developers. The forums are a great means to get quick answers and support on all things Windows Azure without having to log a support ticket. The Windows Azure Platform forums average more than 360 new posts a month and 99% of the posted questions receive a response within one day.
To make it easier to stay on top of what's happening on the forums, you can now follow @wapforums on Twitter to keep track of new forum questions and discussions as they're posted. When you're logged into Twitter, you'll be able to see questions as they're asked, get community tips as they're posted and identify discussions that you may want to participate in.
And be sure to watch for posts from #MSTechTalk for tips and discussions from Microsoft engineering teams and #WAPSupport for posts related to top support questions.
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Frequently Asked Questions for the Windows Azure Platform are available here:
Azure Virtual Machines announcements
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Some Azure customers may have noticed that for a VM deployed in a US region, when they launch a localized page on a web browser it may redirect them to an international site. The following explains why this may be happening. More details and explanation can be found here
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/11/windows-azures-use-of-non-us-ipv4-address-space-in-us-regions/
Corey
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Want to learn how to build and deploy apps running SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines? Or find out how to move existing on-premises databases and applications to the cloud as-is? Watch these demo-rich learning sessions featuring migration tools and a sample app that utilizes both Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services.”
Azure BizTalk Services announcements
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1. Custom domain names for BizTalk Services
Custom domain names allow you to assign existing domain names like http://www.contoso.com to the BizTalk Services deployment instead of using the default *.biztalk.windows.net URLs. As part of BizTalk Services creation, a private certificate (.pfx) that matches the custom domain name needs to be uploaded. By default, the BizTalk Services create wizard in the Azure portal uses the BizTalk Service URL as the customer domain URL.
We are glad to report that we upgraded our bits on 9th July 2013, to fix the Custom domain issue and this should be working for everyone. Please let us know via the forum's if this is not the case.
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- SDKs, EDI Schemas & Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39087
- Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
- Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx and http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/biztalk-services/
- BizTalk Portal: https://portal.biztalk.windows.net/
- BizTalk Server Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/
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Windows Azure BizTalk Services environment will be updated this week as part of the BizTalk Services upgrade. Management operations on BizTalk Services (e.g. Scale) and trading partner management from portal may be unavailable for a period of 48 hours starting 9PM PST 11/11/13.
Configurations and runtime messaging of existing deployments will continue to remain functional without any impact. During this update, customers on Developer Edition may also face downtime for 15-20 minutes this week.
If you face any issues, please report the same at the BizTalk Services forum
Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn232393.aspx
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/biztalk-services/dashboard-monitor-scale-tabs/
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The responses for WABS so far has been quite positive. Within a short amount of time, we have reached the initial capacity that we planned to auto-approve. While we were clearly not expecting such phenomenal response, it is a good problem for us to have. We are in the process of manually clearing out the pending queue. Meanwhile, if you want to speed this up for your subscription, drop an email to wabssignup@microsoft.com with a brief note on what you are intending to do. We shall try to take that up in priority.
Also go through the following BizTalk Services blog post in case you are running into any issue creating a WABS instance for yourself after your queued request has been approved.
For any issues with your usage post in this forum and we will get back to you.
Azure Mobile Services announcements
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We are happy to announce that you can now log feature requests for Mobile Services on Uservoice. We would love to hear your feedback about the features we should be looking into:
http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/216254-mobile-services
Thanks.
Dinesh
Azure Media Services announcements
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We have a User Voice site that we have been using for IIS Media Services on-premises for many years that we would like to direct our customers to post new feature requests and vote on features for Azure Media Services as well. We decided to mix the customer feature list, as many of the same feature requests will impact both our cloud and on-premises solutions for Media Services.
Please post your feature requests to our User Voice Media Services site here:
http://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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You can now monitor your usage of On-Demand Streaming for your media services accounts via the following three metrics that are now available via the Azure Media Services dashboard.
Streaming Data Out - Indicates how many Bytes of egress data has been used for On-Demand Streaming.
Streaming HTTP Errors - Indicates how many HTTP Errors have occured. This includes server errors (e.g. HTTP 500 caused by blob store or a media services component) as well as typical client errors (e.g. HTTP 404 or 403). In a future update we will provide additional granularity so that you can track these errors individually.
Streaming Requests - Indicates how many requests for data have been made for on-demand streaming.
If there are other metrics that you would like to see available for on-demand streaming, add the request to our uservoice board - https://azuremediaservices.uservoice.com/
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We just released Windows Azure Media Services .NET SDK via Nuget: https://nuget.org/packages/windowsazure.mediaservices/
There are two versions listed there:
- .NET SDK 2.2.0.1:
- Storage 2.0 upgrade: we make our SDK compatible with storage SDK 2.0 now
- Notification APIs: adding encoding notification APIs enables you to monitor your encoding progress
- .NET SDK 2.1.0.0:
- It depends on storage 1.7 with notification APIs for encoding
We also made our .NET SDK open source on Github: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-media-services.
We will be taking contributions and if you found any issues, please report to issue tab and we will triage regularly: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-media-services/issues?state=open.
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By default every Media Services account can scale up to a max of 5 Encoding and 5 On-Demand Streaming Reserved Units. You can request a higher limit via a support ticket if your business needs are not met with 5. Note that billing will still be based on the actual number of Reserved Units you have provisioned in your account. In other words, if your max is 50 Encoding Reserved Units in your account but you scale it down to 10 you will only billed for 10.
To open a support ticket please following the instruction below
1) Log in to your Azure account at http://manage.windowsazure.com
2) Go to http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/contact/
3) Click on "Get Support"
4) Select your subscription
5) Under support type select "Technical"
6) Click on "Create Ticket"
7) Select "Windows Azure Media Services" in the product list presented on the next page
8) Select "Media Processing" as "Problem type" and then select "Reservation Units" under category
9) Click Continue
10) Follow instructions on next page and then enter details about how many Reserved Units you need and which kind (i.e. Encoding or On-Demand Streaming).
11) Click submit and you are done with opening your ticket
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We have released to codeplex an open source tool that can be used for mirroring assets between two WAMS accounts. One of the primary use cases for the tool is to implement streaming redundancy across two geo-diverse data centers.
Here is the project link: https://replicator.codeplex.com/
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WAMS Service Management APIs are now live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn167014.aspx
Feedback welcome
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Please refer to my blog for breaking changes for WAMS .NET SDK GA.
http://mingfeiy.com/breaking-changes-for-windows-azure-media-services-ga/
Please let me know if you couldn't follow it to fix your code.
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Starting today, January 14, 2013 the following media processors have updated version numbers and GUID identifiers. The task presets for the Windows Azure Media Encoder remain unchanged from the last update.
Media Processor Version GUID Storage Decryption 1.5.3 aec03716-7c5e-4f68-b592-f4850eba9f10 Windows Azure Media Encoder 2.2.0.0 70bdc2c3-ebf4-42a9-8542-5afc1e55d217 Windows Azure Media Packager 2.2.0.0 a2f9afe9-7146-4882-a5f7-da4a85e06a93 Windows Azure Media Encryptor 2.2.0.0 38a620d8-b8dc-4e39-bb2e-7d589587232b Additionally the REST API version 1.0 will be deprecated. This means that if you are using the version 1.0 of the .Net SDK it will begin to fail. You should update immediately to the most recent version of the SDK by using the NuGet package. See the NuGet package announcement below.
DNS and Traffic Manager announcements
Azure Backup announcements
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Windows Azure Backup supports Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. For more details on SKU list, please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj573031.aspx#BKMK_testsrv.
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Please Do Not install DPM 2012 SP1 UR3. There are couple of regressions under investigation. Detailed information is present here.
This might have impact on DPM backup Azure.
UPDATE
=====The System Center 2012 Sp1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13. You can simply install the new UR3 re-released package available here:
Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager (KB2877075)
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2877075The new DPM version will now be 4.1.3417.0 after applying this update.
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Please follow the instructions @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/171fe77a-8686-4dd1-a45a-b44df729b40b
MakeCert.exe is available as part of the Windows SDK, which you can download from one of the below links:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=84091.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa386968(v=vs.85).aspxYou can install Windows SDK and select option “Tools” under “.Net Development” and unchecked everything else for installing makecert.exe only.
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Here are some of the blogs which have been released on Windows Azure Online Backup.
1. Windows Azure Online Backup Preview for Windows Server 2012 - http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup.aspx
2. Integration with System Center 2012 SP1 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/09/07/windows-azure-online-backup-now-supports-system-center-2012-sp1.aspx
3. Integration with Windows Server 2012 Essentials - http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/09/18/windows-azure-online-backup-and-windows-server-2012-essentials.aspx
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With the General Availability of Windows Azure Backup we have made several reliability improvements to ensure you are able to meet your offsite cloud backup needs. There will be no impact to your backups as Windows Azure Backup moves from preview to General Availability. You can continue
managing cloud backups from familiar backup tools in Windows Server, Windows Server Essentials, or the Data Protection Manager component of Microsoft System Center. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of the Windows Azure Backup agent.Please download and install the update from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=229525.