Azure Autoscaling block cannot find certificate - azure

I have the following situation: My azure application consists of 5 roles. One of those roles hosts the Autoscale block from Enterprise Library. This role is responsible for scaling the others up and down.
Now I followed the tutorial and added the Autoscale settings to the app.config and also added the services.xml and rules.xml.
The problem is that the autoscale logger (which works!) outputs this error over and over again:
Could not retrieve the instance count for hosted service with DNS
prefix 'myCloudApp'.
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClientException:
The service configuration could not be retrieved from Windows Azure
for hosted service with DNS prefix 'myCloudApp' in subscription id
'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' and deployment slot
'Production'. --->
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.Security.CertificateException:
The certificate with thumbprint
'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' in store name 'My' and
store location 'LocalMachine' could not be found. at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.Security.CertificateHelper.FindCertificate(StoreName
certificateStoreName, StoreLocation certificateStoreLocation, String
certificateThumbprint, Boolean withPrivateKey, Boolean validOnly) at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClient.CreateFactory(StoreName
certificateStoreName, StoreLocation certificateStoreLocation, String
certificateThumbprint, Inspector inspector) at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClient.CallOperation[TResult](Func2
call, StoreName certificateStoreName, StoreLocation
certificateStoreLocation, String certificateThumbprint, String
exceptionMessage, String& requestId) --- End of inner exception stack
trace --- at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClient.CallOperation[TResult](Func2
call, StoreName certificateStoreName, StoreLocation
certificateStoreLocation, String certificateThumbprint, String
exceptionMessage, String& requestId) at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClient.GetDeployment(String
hostedServiceDnsPrefix, String subscriptionId, DeploymentSlot
deploymentSlot, StoreName certificateStoreName, StoreLocation
certificateStoreLocation, String certificateThumbprint) at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.ServiceManagement.ServiceManagementClientExtensions.GetDeployment(IServiceManagementClient
client, HostedService hostedService) at
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.WindowsAzure.Autoscaling.DataPointsCollection.RoleInstanceCountDataPointsCollector.Collect(DateTimeOffset
collectionTime)
I replaced the actual thumbprint and subscription id with xxxxx.
I dont understand why it cannot access my cloud services. Do I need to do anything to this certificate?
Help is greatly appreciated!!

Did you actually upload the pfx (private key side) of the management certificate? This error indicates it cannot find the cert installed on the machine.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg465712.aspx

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I wouldn't want to do any fancy Azure AD set up in order to make deployments via Azure. I'm trying this on my personal account, so it's not like a have an AD environment set up.
I don't know what I should put in the "Sign-on URL" field. I've tried filling it with my personal website just because it's required (probably my first mistake).
If you develop a WebApplication, you could Webapplication address it as sign-on url. In your case your could add a vaild url address. And you could add your personal website.
Operation returned an invalid status code 'Forbidden'
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I have a .NET Core application that I'm trying to deploy to Azure App Service. When I deploy and try to load the site I'm getting a 502.5 error response. From what I've read that means it's a permissions issue. I've tried printing the logs with stdout, but while it physically creating the log files, they are all empty.
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How can I set it up to work?
1.Upload pfx Certificate to the Azure with azure portal. It is required service plan B or above. How to change service plan please refer to this document
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using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;namespace UseCertificateInAzureWebsiteApp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
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false);
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