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According to this article Azure supports only Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008R2.
That's mean that I cannot deploy anything else?
Expanding a bit on #Erik's comment:
The article you linked to is all about Cloud Services. Azure Cloud Services (web and worker role instances) are stateless Windows Server VMs that you don't have to manage (you just deploy a package built by specific developer tools such as Visual Studio). Very easy to scale out (or in), and no worries about maintaining the OS.
Azure's Virtual Machines, on the other hand, support many different flavors of both Windows Server (2012, 2016 preview, etc) and Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, etc). You have to manage the OS maintenance, and you have some more work to do around scaling (and there are different features around this, such as VM scale sets).
Those are the limitations for Cloud Services. Web Apps would be similar to that too since you can't explicitly choose which server operating system to host those.
With Azure VM's (Virtual Machines) you have a much wider array of options to choose from. There are a number of Operating Systems, different Windows versions as well as Linux, to choose from in the Azure Marketplace. You can also build a VM locally using Hyper-V and then upload the .VHD into Azure to run it there as a VM.
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My old parents have been hacked/virus-ed for the nth time.
I have an old HP server.
I thought of rebuilding it with VMWare (free version) or Oracle virtualbox and having them use windows in a controlled environment. I would back it up and patch it, etc. Maybe they RDC to my server.
I assume I would need a Windows server license to allow multiple connections. (I could also use it for myself to host Plex media server.)
At a 10,000 foot level, is this possible or just a technology quagmire?
Super User SE might be a better place for this.
Anyway: Are they using it for anything windows-specific? My parents used to use my Linux-based computer for web browsing, now they use an Android tablet for the same. Running a virtualised Windows on top of the former could've been an alternative. Also, backing up and rolling back is easier if you use virtualisation, just use something else for permanent data storage. Maybe a remote storage with backup and rollback (for ransomware) either your own infrastucture or in the cloud. (like syncthing, owncloud, etc.)
I'm assuming here they don't have trade secrets or plans of a home-built nuclear plant or anything that kind.
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I have a file share on my azure account and I am trying to use the map network drive function inside of windows explorer to access the share. however, when I enter my credentials, it takes be back and says access denied inside of the credentials windows.
Please help!
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-Sean
As Gaurav said, with support for SMB 3.0, file storage now supports encryption and persistent handles from SMB 3.0 clients. Support for encryption means that SMB 3.0 clients can mount a file share from anywhere, including from:
I had reproduce this error, I create a VM(windows 2008 SMB 2.1) in Australia East, and the storage account (file share) in East US. Because the windows 2008 R2 is SMB 2.1 and deploy in different regions:
By the way, if you want to mount the file share on the on-premises client, you have to make sure your firewall allows traffic across port 445 AND your ISP (some ISPs do not open port 445).
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My company is integrating with this company to enable us both consume services built on each other's platform to provide joint services extended to external users.
They recently sent me a file containing their VPN configuration with spaces provided to enter ours as well. Now I am not so savvy about VPNs plus our server is hosted in an Azure VM (windows server 2012 R2). I don't know if our hosting arrangement is VPN-ready by default. How am I supposed to go about this?
Any helpful articles or guidance is a welcome boon at this time.
PS.
My knowledge on networking is next to nothing. Just know the basest of things there.
there are two options to create the VPN to your cloud infrastructure:
1) By external services like OpenVPN - in that case, your involvement into what should be done will be to open some endpoints. Tutorials are available.
2) By internal service called Virtual Network. In that case, you should first place your VM to the Virtual Network, and then use tutorial. As the networking is a big topic, i would propose you to read the official tutorial instead of putting that information here.
So, basically, to get your VM ready for the VPN, you should:
1) Create Virtual Network
2) Place the VM into that VN
3) Configure both cloud and local gateways
4) Install the VPN client.
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I have a site that accumulated high traffic so Im thinking of moving to VPS hosting.
but I am a complete newbie with linux. so I have some questions:
what is the recommended OS for VPS? most searches show CENTOS or
Debian.
What platform is recommended? 64bit / 32bit ?
what are the basic installation necessary for an operational VPS (web server) ?
what are the extra recommended installation?
I want to first try to install locally on virtualbox, so any suggestions for a good guide will be appreciated.
10x.
What is the recommended OS for VPS? most searches show CENTOS or
Debian.
Both CentOS and Debian are excellent operating systems, if you choose either of them, you won't go wrong. Debian is certainly rocksolid OS with great security track-records. However, Since you are new with Linux machines, you would need some sort of control panel to manage the Linux machine.Hence, I would recommend CentOS box with cPanel for easy startup.
What platform is recommended? 64bit / 32bit ?
Of course 64 Bit Operating system.
what are the basic installation necessary for an operational VPS (web
server) ? What are the extra recommended installation?
cPanel will include all necessary tools and software to run web server. However, if you wish you can install firewall or other required tools through terminal. Also, you can try out CentOS in virtual box easily, for cPanel, you would need license and static IP address.
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Does anyone know if this is possible? Browsing around on the internet I found out that it had been put on the roadmap but that was quite a way back. Has anyone achieved this? It seems odd that such a big player in the hosting industry doesn't offer this, as AWS does.
Also, I'm talking about reverse dns on virtual machines not the ip addresses of cloud services. I assumed it was something to do on the configuration of the linux machine, since the virtual machines have root access I thought this may have been possible, although struggling to find info on it.
It looks like Reverse DNS feature is planned but I was not able to find more details on any timeline / planned release date.
You can find out more on those features on Provide Reverse DNS for the Azure Virtual Machines as well as reverse DNS lookup proposals on Windows Azure Feature Voting website.
EDIT
As pointed out by #franzo, Windows Azure platform now support reverse DNS records at no additional cost. Reverse DNS support is for all PaaS and IaaS Cloud Services. You can find out more about that feature on Announcing: Reverse DNS for Azure Cloud Services.