Every time we publish our Azure project (all machines in our team/at home as well) it always asks us to re-enter our RDP password.
This is a bit annoying as it means the files check out and we have to keep entering the password.
The error message is "The existing Remote Desktop credentials could not be loaded in this environment. Re-enter the desired password".
Anyone got any idea what is up? Its a bit frustrating.
Answer was because we were publishing to different instances with the same configuration and not using a fixed RDP cert. It was re-generating the certificate each time.
If you have this problem upload the cert to each cloud service you are deploying to and use the one cert across all deployments.
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I got a new computer and I'm trying to publish my website through web deploy in Visual Studio from the new computer but it keeps saying failed due to unauthorized user. I'm using the same visual studio account, the same password. Everything else is identical to what it looks like in the old computer.
Is there something on the azure website that I need to update to allow a new computer to publish? Is the password different from the username/password I login to get into azure portal? There seem to be a lot more **** in my old computer's password input than what's required. I just assumed that it at some point did that for security purposes.
This is the error I get when going to Settings in the publishing window in Visual Studio and when I click Validate Connection:
Connect to the remote computer ("website name" using the Web
Management Service, but could not authorize. Make sure that you are
using the correct user name and password, that the site you are
connecting to exists, and the credentials represent a user who has
permissions to access the site. Learn more at:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_USER_UNAUTHORIZED.
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Is there something on the azure website that I need to update to allow a new computer to publish?
No.
Is the password different from the username/password I login to get into azure portal?
Its not different. Its the same.
I have noticed that sometimes, even with everything being correct from our side, VS web deploy to Azure simply may not work. It could a simple connection issue from VS to Azure, in terms of authentication and no fault of yours.
I don't know why VS is giving authentication error, but as an alternative, you could, deploy your site locally to a folder in Visual Studio. Then, deploy the site manually to your site via FTP.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/web-sites-deploy
In the long run, you will come to trust FTP deploy than VS deploy which is simply too much of a hassle.
I have an Windows 8.1 VM on Azure that I've been successfully using for months. I login via the admin account that I originally set up.
Today my RDP sessions keep telling me that the password is incorrect.
So I used the Azure Portal to reset the password, but still can't get in. I've tried waiting for a while (in case updates were being installed) and I've restarted the machine.
I notice that the Portal UI says 'Provide a new user name for the built-in administrator account'. I've tried changing it with no luck.
Help?
Azure must have changed the username requirement.
It works if I login with host\username
Connect Azure RDP, "The logon attempt failed"
SOLUTION: instead of copy-paste, type the password
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Suddenly I'm encountering the dreaded "Your credentials did not work" error connecting to my VM. I've tried several different accounts, I've made sure of the password (I use a password management tool and the password used to work fine). I tried resetting it via the management console and I also tried resetting RDP via the console. Nothing.
The only thing that changed is that I rebooted the VM once.
Any other steps I can take to troubleshoot it? Is my only option to save the VHD and create a new VM?
you can reset you password using the steps given here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-reset-rdp/
Does anyone know how to download the Azure diagnostic logs? From the control panel, it shows me an ftp link for the logs, but when I click it it prompts me for a username/password. Any username/password I try just results in a "530 User Cannot Login" error.
It looks like the same address that Vis Studio does it's publishing to, and that had a '$' before my username. I tried that as well, but no-go.
Just curious how to get the logs when you start having errors pop up in the application, or is there something else I should be doing to prepare my app for going on Azure?
Thanks,
Mike
You would need to use FTP client application to access to files instead of using the Webpage as it is designed to use a client app to display the files.
I have configured FileZilla as below to access my Windows Azure websites to access Diagnostics Logs as well as use the same client application to upload/download site specific files:
In my blog Windows Azure Website: Uploading/Downloading files over FTP and collecting Diagnostics logs, I have described all the steps.
As an update as of December 2015 (New Azure Portal)
Apparently the FTP Username and Password is not set by your publish settings or anything else that I can find.
The steps to first set up your FTP credentials are to go to your web app on the new portal. Click the settings icon at the top of the "blade". There's like 25-30 different links to settings there. The one we want is under Publishing and then Deployment Credentials.
I thought I had already set these up with my publish profile but those were not working. You should have the opportunity to enter your desired username and password now for FTP and git specifically.
Now go to the blade for Diagnostics (It was right above the publishing section) and you can copy the ftp url. I just copied the first one (ftp not ftps), went to FileZilla and used the ftp url, my new username and password, and port 21 and I was able to see all log files as expected.
This does NOT mess up or affect your publishing credentials in any way that I can see.
On the new Azure Portal there's a new concept of site extensions there you can find an extension called Azure Website Log Browser which makes it extremly easy for you to access your website's logs (viewing and downloading them).
You can read more about it here.
Just to clarify the process, for me it was:
Setup APP server properly (Deployment -> Deployment Credentials ... set username and password
Read correct username at Monitoring -> Diagnostic Logs ... there's a label with SERVERNAME\USERNAME (this whole is username!)
Use WinSCP for SFTP connection and configure it properly. Then I was able to connect.
I had the same problem but your image helped solve my problem. I wasn't using the [sitename][username] (I say sitename but perhaps I should call it hostname/domain)
I don't know if this will help you, and you may have already tried it, but the username I used was my Windows Live ID. (I did not use the dollar $ign)
Oh and one other thing and I don't know if this matters or not as far as accessing the ftp site where logs are stored but make sure you have enabled them under Websites | [select your website] | Configure - Then scroll down to Diagnostics and click "ON" for the logs you want turned on.
I added that last part because I don't know if your ftp.[sitename].azurewebsites.windows.net/LogFiles/ directory has been created and since this is where I am dropped off at (/LogFiles) after signing in, if it doesn't exist you might not be able to log on.. just an after thought.
Good luck!
John
Make sure that you set up deployment credentials for the application. This is needed by FTP. (Example user name: MyFtpUserName)
Then, when browsing to that provided ftp link, remember to qualify the user id with the domain. (Example qualified user name: MyWebSiteName\MyFtpUserName)
I'm preparing a laptop to take with me while travelling, so all my user data is encrypted using EFS in case someone decides to steal it. I also need to set up a couple of local sites for development with IIS. If I turn off encryption on the wwwroot of a site, IIS can serve it just fine. However, I really would like to be able to use encryption here as well.
I've tried these steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243756
When I try to view the local site in IE, I get a login dialog as expected, but it doesn't accept my credentials, although this is the account I use to encrypt the served files. Has anyone tried this and got it to work?
EFS and IIS really don't play nicely together. The IIS services (typically) runs under "Network Service" which doesn't have access to your user account's EFS decryption key.
You have two options with IIS:
Run "IIS Admin Service" and "World Wide Web Publishing Service" as your personal account, along with running any web site's anonymous user as this account.
Flag the InetPub directory as Never Encrypt.
#1 is obviously the best bet for security/encryption purposes, but its going to be a challenge to set up the appropriate rights for your account to run these services.
You might want to consider just using Visual Studio's built in web server (Cassini) which gets aroung the encryption problem since it runs as your personal account, but it does have some of its own issues.
Full hard drive encryption sounds more appropriate. I've had good results with the free version of CompuSec from
http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/
Thanks for the answers -- I've now decided to take the easy route and put all my web files in a TrueCrypt volume that I'll mount whenever I need to work on any local web sites, together with any database data. This is definitely the safest as far as I can see.