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Working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines using the Windows Azure REST API

by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 8, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Windows Azure has a rich Management REST API for working with all types of artifacts.  Continuing on with my current theme of working with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines in Preview mode I came across some details of the REST API that might be helpful to...

Working with the Add Disk Operation of the Windows Azure REST API

by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 5, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Recently I was looking at a forum question of someone trying to add a disk to the Azure Virtual Machines using the Windows Azure REST API. You have two types of Disks.  You have a Data Disk that do not have an operating system and are used to store user...

Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disk (blob storage) Cross Account Copy, Lease Break, and Management Tool

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 26, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Recently the Windows Azure Storage API’s were updated to include the ability to do cross account, asynchronous blob transfers. This means it was no longer necessary to download the blob in order to upload it to a different Windows Azure account. You can read all...

How to Remove an Orphaned Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disk and Remove a Lease Conflict on a VHD Blob

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 19, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

I have been spending a lot of time the past few weeks working with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines that are currently available as a Preview Feature. The ability to be up and running with a custom hosted Virtual Machine in a matter of minutes without any extra...

Why Can’t I Always Change the Region when Creating a Windows Azure Virtual Machine?

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 19, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

I have been working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines for a few weeks now. As of this blog post, the preview feature is running six locations currently: West US, East US, East Asia, Southeast Asia, North Europe, and West Europe. One of the things I like about...
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