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Microsoft's cloud computing platform and infrastructure. Questions about the Azure web service questions are on topic here only if the question is about the operating system or using a PC application hosted there. Otherwise, other sites on the network may be more appropriate

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services on Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Azure provides both PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks.

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What does SKU stand for in Microsoft Azure?

I am requesting a quota increase from Microsoft Azure and have an option of choosing an SKU family from A series to NV series. What does it mean?
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How do I add Azure Active Directory User to Local Administrators Group

With Windows 10 you can join an organisation (=Azure Active Directory) and login with your cloud credentials. Based on the information provided here the first account per computer that joins the organisation is a local administrator. The accounts…
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How to give file permissions to AzureAD user on windows 10?

I'm on a Win10 workstation that's joined to AzureAD like this. How can I grant file permissions to an AzureAD user? When I try to use the File Properties > Security > Edit > Add dialog I can't find/select any users on the AzureAD domain, including…
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Slow Ubuntu Remote Desktop using xrdp

I have created an azure virtual machine with the following specifications: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS F16s_v2 Standard (16 vCPU and 32 GiB RAM) SSD unit Since I need to connect via Remote Desktop, I followed this guide to install xfce and xrdp. Once…
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Windows 10 Remote Desktop connection using Azure AD Credentials

My organization is running Windows 10 joined to Azure AD organization (completely cloud hosted, i.e. no on-prem Active Directory). I login to my PC with a username in the form of "username@organization.com" with no issues and have enabled Remote…
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How do I download an entire container from Azure storage with azure-cli?

I've installed azure-cli in the hope to use it to download an entire container from Azure storage. The info on the page gives clear examples on how to get a single blob, but not on how one downloads an entire container. There is a 'azure storage…
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How to setup SSH Keys on Windows machine (SSH Client) to access Azure Linux VM?

Googling was fruitless, as most people have a slightly different variation of this problem. I am trying to setup an Azure Linux VM with SSH (no password), for access from a Windows machine. 2018 UPDATE: The original requirement was to use WinSCP but…
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Is there a way to install Mac OS on an Azure Virtual machine - or any cloud VM for that matter?

I want to create a virtual development machine on the could for iOS development. I understand it is against Mac OS License agreement to install it on non-Apple hardware. But is there a LEGAL solution to have such VM on any cloud provider? I also…
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How do I do a wildcard search inside Azure Storage Explorer

I'm trying to do a search for *40075* inside azure folder search box, and was wondering how I can do a real wildcard search from the folder search box, and how.
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Azure CLI to check VM status

Azure CLI allows people to start & stop VMs. However, is there any Azure CLI command that can show the VM status? I.e., whether it is started or being stopped? Thx.
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How can I prevent Microsoft Online login Portal from redirecting to an old SSO page?

I used to work at a company with an Active Directory, but I no longer do. I now work at another company which uses Azure, but doesn't use Active Directory or Outlook etc. Whenever I try to log into Azure, I get redirected to "your organization's…
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Is it possible to add an existing Azure VM to an Azure Virtual Network?

Didn't think this was directly related to programming, so thought Superuser would be better than Stack Overflow.... Is it possible to add an existing Azure VM to an Azure Virtual Network if you didn't add it to the virtual network at the time of…
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FTP Passive mode (Filezilla) Windows server 2012 occasional " 426 Connection closed; aborted transfer of ""

Good Morning everyone, I'm hosting a FileZilla FTP server (passive mode) on a WIN 2012 R2 server hosted in MS Azure. FTP transfers are generally working fine - Several FTP uploads and retrievals are running on a daily basis. I have opened a relative…
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Converting a VMDK to VHD

I am looking at transforming a VMDK hard drive into a VHD (Virtual Hard Drive). The VMDK comes from an export of our VMware machines and I want to try importing it into Azure. Any idea how this would be achieved ? I tried a variety of small tools…
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How to rsync with a private key?

I'm trying to rsync from my MacOS machine to an Ubuntu server that's running on Windows Azure. To ssh to it, I have to do the following: $ ssh -i myPrivateKey.key -p 22 me@me.cloudapp.net I think the key file might be an X509 public key, if that…
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