Cloud services with hosting guaranteed to be Canada?

Microsoft announced recently that it will allow clients to choose to store their data in data centres in their home country to help shield it from
US government. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e14ddf70-8390-11e3-aa65-00144feab7de.html
Having consulted a Canadian privacy law expert, it seems that the law is clear that an offering from a Canadian owned company would not be subject to possible US government legally compelled provision of data, but it is far from clear that a US owned subsidiary
such as Microsoft Canada would be legally exempt as well. Will Microsoft allow its partners in Canada who currently sell O365 and hosted Exchange such as Bell to offer O365 hosted with them? That would resolve many legal difficulties that have arisen post-Snowden.
Does Microsoft or its partners have data centres in Canada that would support a) Office 365 for 20k user installations, and b) Azure applications?
Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for your question. Please understand that this forum is mainly focused on technical questions and issues on Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus. For this issue, I highly recommend you to contact the Microsoft Billing Support team for Office 365
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and submit your feedback on the following web form for general Microsoft Privacy issues.
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You can also check Office 365 Trust Center to get more information.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-cloud-computing-security-FX103030390.aspx
I hope these information will be helpful for you. Thank you.
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Windows Azure Cloud Service with MVC4WebRole template giving "Not running in a hosted service or the Development Fabric." Error.

Azure SDK used - 1.7 & 2.0
When we create new project for Windows Azure Cloud Service with MVC4WebRole template & try to run it locally its giving error as "Not running in a hosted service or the Development Fabric."
We are aware that making Azure project as start up project will resolve this error but we want to run the application locally before testing it with cloud.
It’s not working with Cassini so we have tried with IIS but still it’s giving the same error.
In another project when we added ASP.Net MVC4 Application & then for that project we have generated the Azure cloud service project using "Add Windows Azure Cloud Service Project". By this way debugging it locally works fine.
Is there something additional settings present in Windows Azure Cloud Service with MVC4WebRole template which is causing this issue?

hello,
According your description, I try to reproduce it in my PC.
>1. I create a could project and add a MVC4 web role into project.
>2. I set the azure project as a start project and run, it works fine.
>3. I change the MVC4 web role as a startup project and run, it works fine too. Of course before this, I exited the Azure Simulator.
But this project was a empty project. It didn't included azure DLL file, such as Diagnostics file. So I think you could comment out the "system.diagnostics" node and try again. Also, you could refer to this same thread:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13879443/not-running-in-a-hosted-service-or-the-development-fabric-production-not-debug
Regards,
Will
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Having trouble with creation of a cloud service with multiple virtual machines using java sdk.

I am creating a cloud service on azure with 2 virtual machines using java sdk API. Service created successfully.
My input endpoint details are as follows.
INPUT ENDPOINTS
Head : 191.238.144.47:2400
Head : 191.238.144.47:22
Node0 : 191.238.144.47:43211
For Head instance port 2400 is for HTTPS and port 22 is for SSH and for Node0 instance port 43211 is for SSH.
But I am having problem with doing a ssh on Head instance. Sometimes it works sometimes doesn't. Same problem with HTTPS also.
I have some application running over there but when i try to access it thru browser sometimes it works but most of the time doesn't. When I restart the instances from azure portal, its works after
that(not always but most of the time).
Now I am confused what is going on there. I am creating cloud service and virtual machines using java sdk and setting input endpoints also. After creation of all instances i restart every instance programmatically .
I am not sure whether restart is required or not. It must be something to do with input endpoints only but not able to get the right thing i guess. When i do the same thing thru azure portal(creation of cloud service with virtual machines and setting up input
end points) everything works fine but not achieving the result when implementing it by java sdk API. Please help me.

HI Nithin,
Thanks for your reply. I am setting the endpoints after creating my instances using update call. Here's the code snippet.
AzureService aServ = new AzureService(session);
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aServ.createHostedService(clusterName, "dbX cluster");
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int port = 22;
aServ.updateVMInputEndpoint(clusterName, "Head", name, port);
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get(clusterName, clusterName, vmName);
VirtualMachineUpdateParameters updateParameters = new VirtualMachineUpdateParameters();
//get the configuration list
ArrayList<ConfigurationSet> configlist = resp.getConfigurationSets();
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inputEndpoint.setEnableDirectServerReturn(false);
inputEndpoint.setPort(port);
inputEndpoint.setLocalPort(port);
inputEndpoint.setName(name);
inputEndpoint.setProtocol(InputEndpointTransportProtocol.TCP);
endpointlist.add(inputEndpoint);
// Open port for https on head node
if(vmName.equals("Head")) {
inputEndpoint = new InputEndpoint();
inputEndpoint.setEnableDirectServerReturn(false);
inputEndpoint.setPort(2400);
inputEndpoint.setLocalPort(2400);
inputEndpoint.setName("https");
inputEndpoint.setProtocol(InputEndpointTransportProtocol.TCP);
endpointlist.add(inputEndpoint);
updateParameters.setConfigurationSets(configlist);
//required for update
OSVirtualHardDisk osVirtualHardDisk = resp.getOSVirtualHardDisk();
updateParameters.setOSVirtualHardDisk(osVirtualHardDisk);
updateParameters.setRoleName(resp.getRoleName());
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I am setting ProvisionGuestAgent field to true at instance creation time. Thank you.

Issues deploying a cloud service with two endpoints (HTTP and HTTPS)

I ran into an issue this week in the azure portal when I tried to deploy a cloud service with two endpoints. (I am using the azure sdk 2.2). I deployed the cloud service to production with the following endpoints in the ServiceDefinition.csdef:
<WebRole name="NameChanged.Web" vmsize="Small">
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<Bindings>
<Binding name="HttpsIn" endpointName="HttpsIn" />
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<Imports>
<Import moduleName="Diagnostics" />
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We spent a lot of time to debug and see why HTTPS wasn't working, but everything we tried resulted in the same result: 502 error code when accessing the site
via HTTPS.
The only way that we were able to get HTTPS working for the cloud service in azure, was to completely delete our instance in the azure portal, and then do a two step deployment:
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<Site name="Web">
<Bindings>
<Binding name="HttpsIn"
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We then deployed the service to the azure portal. AND THE SERVICE WORKED WITH HTTPS!!!
Step 2 - We added the HTTP endpoint back into the ServiceDefinition.csdef, redeployed and both HTTP and HTTPS worked on the site.
I wanted to post this to help others that may have the same issue, and to see if anyone else has experienced this same thing? Is this an issue in the azure 2.2 SDK? This seems like a work around for getting both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints for a
cloud service, and it seems "wrong". Does anyone have a better way to do this?
Tim

Hi Tim;
This seems to be an very useful workaround thanks for sharing it. Hopefully this will come in handy for many of us.
Warm Regards
Prasant

Cloud service with iTunes - how does it work?

May I use "cloud" service to storage my podcasts? (http://selectel.ru/services/cloud-storage/) iTunes doesn't see the link (Bad http error 502)

I can't read the page you link to as it's in Russian. However, many 'cloud' service are intended for you to store your files for your own use, requiring a login, and this won't work for a podcast. You need to host the feed and the media files on a web sperver, the same as if they were actually web pages, so that they are accessible to all.
You may find my 'get you started' page on podcasting helpful:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc

In azure cloud service with Location West Europe, why the IP address shows the server is locate in United States?

We have 9 projects in azure cloud service, and all are use West Europe location, but with different subscription, and we found that one of those cloud service which its IP address is United
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States is very slow, BTW i'm in Amsterdam.

Hi LH,
I have saw the same problem on Brazil. There has some comments about this issue, you can refer to it:
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physically located in Redmond when using these types of tools.
It's more or less an issue with the way our IP are registered. They all "belong" to Microsoft in the US and Brasil
IP locator tools like whatismyip are sometimes incorrect. Some will give the real location, some will give the location of the ISP, etc …
IP geo lookup tools typically rely on a static database of IP address range registrations.
It's a Microsoft issue in the sense that we may publish the correct location for our datacenters
(eg. Amsterdam should locate in Europe and not in Redmond…) – but it's also a 3rd party tools issue.
If you want to be sure – use
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn175718.aspx
And you could also see this blog about this issue :
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/11/windows-azures-use-of-non-us-ipv4-address-space-in-us-regions/
Regards,
Will
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Using the cloud service with .psd files

I just purchased Photoshop Touch for my Galaxy Tab 2. Everything I read says I should be able to transfer .psd files from the cloud service to photoshop touch but I can't get it to work Anyons else have this issue?

You can only open .psd files through the "add local image" and it flattens the image(no layers). It's the biggest flaw of Touch.

Exception in cloud service with WCF and Oracle

Hi could someone help me resolve this error:
The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the <serviceDebug> configuration behavior)
on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.

Hi Will Shao:
I already said what page you sent me and I get the following error:
An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is:
System.ArgumentException: Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed.
at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.GetFactory(String providerString).
Looks like the data provider is not installed. Are you using a virtual machine or a cloud service/website? If you're using a virtual machine, you can install the data provider manually. I don't know what exactly it is. Maybe the component on
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/windows/downloads/index-101290.html is sufficient. You may want to ask the question on an Oracle forum as well. If you're using a cloud service/website, then you can't install it directly. As a first step, try
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Connect Cloud Service with Virtual Machine

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Recently migrated my Website to one of Virtual Machine ( Windows 2008 R2 ). Migrated all my MySQl, tomccat, memcache and code.. Now if I hit localhost on Virtual Machine I can see website up and running.
But When tried to connect it from outside failed to do so.
Can someone help me to setup cloud service pointing to this virtual machine. Already setup access points etc pointing to this VM

Have you created an endpoint for HTTP? Sounds like that is what is missing...
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-set-up-endpoints/

Allow desktop interaction within Azure Cloud Service with third-party desktop app (automated via code)

Hello,
I am developing a wrapper service as Worker Role which will take request from Service Bus and automate a third-party desktop app to produce an output file and then upload result back to our web server. The automation is accomplished with the app's
built-in .Net remoting based API. This all works on my local development machine. I am using code as below to start the desktop app. In Azure:
If I am not logged on to RDP and run the app as SYSTEM (or whatever the default WorkerRole account is), it waits forever for the MainWindowHandle.
if I start the app manually in the RDP and try to get a reference to the running process (again as SYSTEM), I get Access Denied from WaitForInputIdle.
if I start the app from code as the RDP user (ProcessStartInfo assign user/pass), I get InvalidOperationException - the app might not have a graphical interface from the WaitForInputIdle.
Could anyone suggest the proper strategy for starting processes in a Worker Role that must create a window?
For reference, I only care about the window to the extent that I need to make sure it's there. All other interaction with the process is via the .Net Remoting API.
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_process = Process.GetProcessesByName("ThirdPartApp").FirstOrDefault();
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_process.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format(@"-I ""{0}""", config.GetSetting("RolePath"));
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_process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
if (config.GetSettingAsBoolean("StartThirdPartAppWithRunAs", false))
_process.StartInfo.UserName = "user";
var password = new SecureString();
foreach (var c in "thepassword".ToCharArray())
password.AppendChar(c);
_process.StartInfo.Password = password;
_process.Start();
while (_process.MainWindowHandle == IntPtr.Zero) Thread.Sleep(50);
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I'd keep the app with the UI and the queue reader in the same process and account - not a worker role. On start up you launch the desktop application and the queue reader in the same account, one after another.
From what I've experienced, two users don't have the same
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You could use other techniques like sockets to communicate cross-process and cross-window station, too.
Darin R.

VM with Cloud Service Billing

I just created a virtual machine, and noticed in my portal that I now also have a cloud service. 1) is that supposed to happen, and 2) if so, am I going to be billed for both a vm and a cloud service?
Mark Aurit Priest River Systems

Hey Mark,
1) Yes it is normal when you create a VM that by default it creates a Cloud Service with the same name.
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by default you are limited to 20 Cloud Services but this can be increased to 100 (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/)
- Also VMs in a cloud service share the same internal DNS so can "see" each other (you still need to open up Windows firewall to get ping / other stuff working internally). Also putting them in same virtual network allows this.
2) You won't get billed extra
cheers
Andy.

How do I tell my clients to configure the connectionstrings for a cloud service?

I have an application that exists in two forms
A Windows Service
A Clouse Service with a Web Worker Role
Both applications have an encrypted connection string in the app.config;
for clients using the Windows Service I know how to tell them to change the config file.
For a cloud service is it possible to edit the configuration file?
I read something about Azure Settings, but I can't find any good information about that, is that the preferred method for setting environment settings in a Cloud Service?
Can you remote in to a VM or whatever hosts the Cloud Service?
Thank you for any help. I am writing the documentation about how to setup the Azure environment and I realized I don't know myself, I only know how to publish with Visual Studio to a cloud service with the values already set. That works, but I can't
tell a client to use Visual Studio.

Hi,
For a cloud service, though it is possible to access instance VMs and do changes on their file system by RDP sessions, but it is not recommended, as you will end up loosing your changes if role instance VMs are restarted.
If you really want to keep certain settings configurable and which will be shared by all your role instances, best way to do is to utilise the cloud service configurations, typically you mention these settings in .cscfg file and you can also edit those using
azure management portal.
You can also access those from your code
string settingValue = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("SettingString");
Read more about it here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee405486.aspx
http://haishibai.blogspot.in/2012/09/windows-azure-cloud-service.html
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Cloud Service: Powershell Error while waiting for Role to Start

Hi,
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at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.Http.HttpClientHandler.GetResponseCallback(IAsyncResult ar)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at Microsoft.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccess(Task task)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Storage.StorageAccountOperationsExtensions.Get(IStorageAccountOperations operations, String accountName)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Common.Storage.StorageUtilities.GenerateCloudStorageAccount(StorageManagementClient storageClient, String accountName)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Utilities.Common.WindowsAzureSubscriptionExtensions.GetCloudStorageAccount(AzureSubscription subscription)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Storage.Common.StorageCloudCmdletBase`1.GetStorageAccountFromSubscription()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Storage.Common.StorageCloudCmdletBase`1.GetCmdletStorageContext()
Thanks,
Pradebban Raja

Hi,
Please have a check on the below blog and check if it helps.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/narahari/archive/2011/12/21/azure-a-connection-attempt-failed-because-the-connected-party-did-not-properly-respond-after-a-period-of-time-or-established-connection-failed-because-connected-host-has-failed-to-respond-x-x-x-x-x-quot.aspx
Regards,
Mekh.

Performance of Cloud Service

Cloud service is hosted in South Central US data center. I have reports that the application is very slow for some Asian users. Could you please suggest something to improve
the performance of the cloud service.
web role is configured with 2 instances and small VM

hi sir,
From your description, It seems that your service already across the regions. I think you can consider Azure Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager can direct user traffic to distribute it across multiple locations, such as multiple cloud services within an Azure
datacenter or multiple Azure websites in different datacenters. Traffic Manager can use either equal or weighted load distribution. Please see this introduction :http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/
and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh744833.aspx
Regards,
Will
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Lync 2013 Cloud Service Limitations

Can anyone point me to some references on the limitations with Lync 2013 in the
cloud? What are some pros and cons about cloud services with voice and video?

How much of this list is still true to the limitations of Lync Online?
The features not available are:
Searching for employees by their skillset in an on-premise SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online
Persistent group chat
Connect (federate) to IBM Sametime unified communications platform
IM/presence federation with XMPP networks such as Jabber and Google Talk
IM/presence with AOL and Yahoo
Authenticated experience in Lync Web App
Outlook delegation for scheduling online meetings
Generate a link to schedule a meeting via web page
Schedule an online meeting in Outlook Web App
Dial-in audio conferencing on Lync Server
Multimedia content upload
Screen shot capture (including annotation)
Interoperability with on-premise video conferencing systems
Make incoming/outgoing calls over the phone network (PSTN dialling)
Call hold/retrieve
Dial-out over the phone network (PSTN) for meetings
Advanced call controls including transfer, forward and simultaneous ring
Access to Exchange Online voice mail
Team calling
Delegation for voice, for example, boss delegates to secretary
Call park
Outgoing Direct Inward Dialing (DID) manipulation
Enhanced 9-1-1 for location by emergency services
Dial plans and policies
IP desk phone support
Survivable Branch Appliances for branch office resiliency
Call admissions control
Support for analog devices such as a fax
Response groups
Private line (secondary DID for executives)
Interoperation with third-party private branch exchange (PBX)
Presence interoperation with third-party PBX
Remote call control (RCC) (also known as “click-to-call”) with on-premises PBX
Malicious call trace
Unassigned number
Network Quality of Service (QoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
Media path optimisation
Phone number management
Call detail recording (CDR) and billing reporting
Integration with call centre solutions (Aspect)
Connect to IP phones (Lync 2010 Phone Edition)
Advanced interface for receptionists (Lync 2010 Attendant client)
Legacy clients (eg. Office Communication for Mac, 2007 R2, Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.x)
Anti-malware scanning for meeting content and file transfers
Instant message archiving (server-side only)
Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) interoperation with Exchange Online
Exchange UM interoperation with Exchange on-premise
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Splitting workloads (for example, running IM/presence/voice on-premises, and conferencing in the cloud)
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