How To Create a Base Disk or Image in Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Share It Across Accounts
The Windows Azure Storage API now have the ability to do cross account, asynchronous blob transfers. This means it is no longer required to download the blob in order to upload it to a different Windows Azure account. You can read all about this here. Over the past...
How to Create a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Image without using the Windows Azure Management Portal
Currently the Windows Azure Management Portal is having some difficulty using the UI to create an Image from an existing Virtual Machine. You have two different options to create an Image without using the UI. The two options are using the REST API or...
Windows Azure REST API Sample and Tool – GET, POST, & DELETE with One Click
Windows Azure has a few different, somewhat disjointed, toolsets available to create new artifacts and maintain existing ones. The best known is the Web Portal. Very quickly when working with the web portal you discover the portal is not able to do all the...
Window Azure Preview Portal Enhancements for Virtual Machines, Disks, Service Bus, and More
Some enhancements were made this weekend to the Windows Azure Preview Portal. With these enhancements is the addition of Service Bus features and I think the ability to create Containers inside a Storage Account. I do not remember that being in place...
Working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines using the Windows Azure REST API
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
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
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
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?
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...
Running a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Locally with Hyper-V or VMware 8 / VMware 9
This is a follow-up to my post and video on Creating a BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Windows Azure. I hope most of you have reviewed my earlier posts on Creating a Windows Azure Virtual Machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP. So now what? You can...
Go from No Azure to BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in Less Than 30 Minutes Video
Are you experienced with Microsoft Azure? Have you tried the Free 90-Day trial? Have you activated the Virtual Machine Preview Feature? Are you up and running with BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine? If you answered NO to any of these questions...
Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using the Gallery
BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP is now publicly available as a template inside the Azure Virtual Machine Gallery. BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP supports Windows 8, Windows 8 Server, SQL 2012, and Visual Studio 2012 (this is the only supported version of Visual Studios). What does...