Tag Archives: Windows Azure

Week 19 roundup

Posted on May 9, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap an links: Mindmap meets Evernote with Mohiomap. Nice visual of your Evernote and/or DropBox content. Windows Azure has a new Portal. Check it out. Used Spreadsheet Inquire to view changes between versions of an Excel file. Installed … Continue reading →

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Connect Virtual Machines in Windows Azure

Posted on May 7, 2014 by erictummers

Our project relies on MSDTC. To use this in Windows Azure the machines must be able to find each other. Here are the two solutions Microsoft offers. Move VM to virtual network In this post Karl writes how to move … Continue reading →

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Change remote desktop public port in Windows Azure

Posted on March 6, 2014 by erictummers

When you cannot connect to your Windows Azure Virtual Machine with remote desktop, maybe you’re being blocked. Most companies don’t allow communication over all ports. This limitation can be overcome by changing the public port Windows Azure uses for Remote … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on February 28, 2014 by erictummers

Here are the best articles I’ve read/seen last week: My Azure vm image wouldn’t behave. There seems to be an image capture issue. We plan to do continuous deployments. Take a look at octopus 2.0 Training Course for some interesting … Continue reading →

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Tentacle register on new Azure instance

Posted on February 26, 2014 by erictummers

We use octopus deploy for managing our environments. This uses agents (called tentacles) on the machines it controls. To get the correct configuration on an Azure VM created from an image I use a sysprep script. The tentacle service can … Continue reading →

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