In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International, a fictitious company, and their journey toward a hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure. JABB has now divided ...

The Azure VM Agent enables VMs to communicate with Azure’s underlying Fabric Controller via the virtual public IP 168.63.129.16. However, when VMs are migrated from on-premises or deployed from custom ...

This post will include a lot of terminal commands, so please try to follow the tutorial step by step and try not to skip any step. Step 1: To communicate with your virtual machine, you need to ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

Cloud and virtualisation are related ideas, but they're not the same thing. To Microsoft the real benefit of its Azure cloud service is more than elasticity and scaling and economies of scale; it's ...

Windows Azure Platform is the cloud offering from Microsoft that encompasses many independent services for compute, storage, networking, monitoring and reporting among others. IT professionals ...