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VM stuck in “Updating” when NSG rule restricts outbound internet connectivity
An Azure VM may experience the following symptoms if you have a network security group (NSG) rule configured to deny outbound internet connectivity: When you create a new VM the status remains on...
View ArticleCross-subscription circuit links that cross the ARM/classic boundary
While enabling an ARM circuit for use with classic deployments is fairly straightforward on its own, it can be confusing to do so as part of creating cross-subscription circuit links with classic...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: How to execute a synchronous Azure PowerShell cmdlet...
Overview Often times, Microsoft Azure customers have requirements to create multiple resources of the same type, and they wish to have these resources created as quickly as possible in a scripted...
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Azure Disk Encryption – How to recover BEK file from Azure Key Vault
In today’s blog, we will demonstrate behavior of Azure Disk Encryption Extension and how it integrates with Key Vault and the Azure Platform to create and read the (BEK) secrets. It will also describe...
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Azure Disk Encryption – How to Encrypt Azure Resource Manager IaaS VM using KEK
In this blog post, we will cover how to encrypt an Azure Resource Manager IaaS VM using a KEK so that you can use Azure Backup to backup Azure Resource Manager VMs which are encrypted using Azure Disk...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs
Azure VMs will activate using the Azure KMS service if all of the following are true: Windows is configured with the appropriate KMS client setup key for that version of Windows. Windows is configured...
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How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Windows...
This article will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring on Windows VMs running on Azure. Goal is to detect potential Disk Level and VM Level IO Throttling. This guideline...
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How to monitor and alert potential Disk and VM Level IO Throttling on Linux...
Introduction This blog post will present a step-by-step guide to enable disk performance monitoring on Linux VMs running on Azure using the Linux Diagnostics Extension 3.0 (LAD3). This article is a...
View ArticleEnhanced Azure Security for sending Emails – November 2017 Update
Azure is committed to stopping SPAM and reducing the customer impact caused by negative IP reputation. Starting on November 15th, 2017, sending outbound email directly to external domains (such as...
View ArticleStale screenshot in Azure VM Boot Diagnostics
If you notice the Boot Diagnostics screenshot for your Azure VM is stale in the Azure portal, first make sure the virtual display timeout is disabled in the guest operating system. For example, for a...
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