- Log on as admin user with RDP
- Create a local (not Microsoft account) account with the name that would be before the @ (i.e. qwerty if the MS email were qwerty@outlook.com)
- Give to the created local user the “Remote Desktop Users” rights.
- Now log off as admin
- Remote desktop and use username .\qwerty (note no @outlook.com)
- Now navigate to the new win10 settings user interface “PC Settings -> Users and Accounts ->” and link the local account with your Microsoft account.
- Log out
- Now log in using .\qwerty@outlook.com
- If you want you can login as admin and give administrator rights to the user.
Category: Windows Azure Tips
Tips about the Windows Azure world.
Azure Public IP Addresses
If you like me you’re interested to know the ip ranges that windows azure uses to connect to the internet 🙂 this is the right post 😉
Do not assume that traffic originating from these IP address ranges is trustworthy.
You can download Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges xml from the download center.
Here’s the list updated on 12th June 2014
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <AzurePublicIpAddresses xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Region Name="europewest"> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.9.112/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.10.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="94.245.97.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.192.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.8.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.8.128/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.8.160/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="193.149.80.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.128.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.136.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.180.32/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.180.96/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.180.192/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="213.199.183.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.128.0/17" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.0.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="104.40.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.117.128.0/17" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.56.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.233.64.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.232.0/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.232.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.233.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.234.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="193.149.84.0/22" /> </Region> <Region Name="useast"> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.0.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.64.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.64.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.64.128/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.64.160/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.80.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.16.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.112.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.117.32.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.117.64.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.135.64.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.176.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.32.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.48.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.32.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.160.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.96.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.96.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.96.192/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.112.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.32.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.236.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.0.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.0.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.0.192/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.1.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.2.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.4.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.8.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.16.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.32.0/19" /> </Region> <Region Name="uswest"> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.32.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.184.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.117.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.117.208.128/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.135.0.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.64.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.160.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.192.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.88.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.64.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.128.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.129.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.129.64/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.136.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.144.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.160.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.192.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.224.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.70.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.32.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.32.128/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.33.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.34.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.34.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.34.192/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.35.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.36.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.37.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.37.80/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.38.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.40.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.112.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="104.40.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.89.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.89.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.236.64.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.239.0.0/18" /> </Region> <Region Name="usnorth"> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.72.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.0.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.192.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="209.240.220.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.106.16/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.106.32/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.106.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.106.128/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.107.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.232.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.240.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.24.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.60.224/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.73.32/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.136.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.151.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.160.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.208.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.252.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.8.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.24.160/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.24.192/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.56.28.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.224.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.240.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.248.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.192.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.96.128.0/17" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.48.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.48.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.48.192/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.48.224/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.49.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.50.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.52.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.54.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.55.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.233.128.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.236.128.0/18" /> </Region> <Region Name="europenorth"> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.224.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.248.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="94.245.88.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="94.245.104.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="94.245.112.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.224.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.3.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.230.160/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.80.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.61.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.32.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.80.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.92.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="193.149.88.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.102.0.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.135.128.0/17" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.128.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.192.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.193.0/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.193.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.193.96/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.194.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.208.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.255.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.255.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.235.255.128/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.192.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.194.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.208.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.239.208.0/20" /> </Region> <Region Name="asiaeast"> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.32.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.40.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.88.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.160.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="111.221.64.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="111.221.69.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="134.170.192.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.160.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.192.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.67.160/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.67.192/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.72.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.77.224/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.87.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.89.16/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.95.32/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.80.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.99.96.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.2.16/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.2.32/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.2.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.2.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.3.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.16.0/20" /> </Region> <Region Name="asiasoutheast"> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.112.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="111.221.16.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="111.221.80.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="111.221.96.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="137.116.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.32.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.160.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.224.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.90.0/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.90.32/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.63.90.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.64.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.64.128/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.64.160/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="207.46.224.0/20" /> </Region> <Region Name="ussouth"> <IpRange Subnet="65.52.32.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.48.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.52.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.52.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.52.128/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.53.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.54.54.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.80.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.88.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.92.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.94.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.95.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.95.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="65.55.95.128/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.48.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.64.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.96.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.112.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.116.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.118.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.119.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.119.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.119.208/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.119.224/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.120.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.124.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.126.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.126.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.126.128/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.127.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.127.240/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="70.37.160.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.80.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.103.32/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.153.224/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.176.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.192.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="157.55.200.0/22" /> <IpRange Subnet="168.62.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.160.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.162.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.162.32/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.162.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.162.128/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.162.176/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.164.0/23" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.167.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.169.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.176.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.192.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.208.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.255.0/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.255.32/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.255.64/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.120.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.102.128.0/18" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.128.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.160.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.224.0/19" /> </Region> <Region Name="japanwest"> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.56.0/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.56.64/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.56.96/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.56.128/26" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.104.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.16.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.233.32.0/19" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.236.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.238.80.0/20" /> </Region> <Region Name="japaneast"> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.57.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.98.57.128/27" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.100.96.0/21" /> <IpRange Subnet="138.91.0.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.234.138.0/24" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.102.64.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.240.0/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.241.0/24" /> </Region> <Region Name="brazilsouth"> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.96.0/20" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.112.0/25" /> <IpRange Subnet="23.97.112.128/28" /> <IpRange Subnet="191.237.248.0/21" /> </Region> </AzurePublicIpAddresses>
How To Copy a Blob Across Storage Accounts and Regions
If you ever worked with Windows Azure, you’ve probably stumbled in the bad practice to let the control panel create the storage for you, with an unreadable and forgettable name, and with the worst thing you can do, leaving the storage outside an affinity group, that guarantee low latency between services and storage that should communicate each other.
It is possible with the Windows Azure PowerShell module to copy a storage blob across storage accounts and regions… asynchronously!
For example, you would need to move a virtual machine disk between storage account:
Import-Module Azure Select-AzureSubscription "My Subscription Name" $destContext = New-AzureStorageContext –StorageAccountName "MyStorageAccountName" -StorageAccountKey "MyStorageAccountKey" $blob = Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -SrcContainer vhds -SrcBlob "xxxx.vhd" -DestContainer vhds -DestBlob "xxxx.vhd" -DestContext $destContext
Then to check the status of the copying, you can execute this command:
$blob | Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState
How to use a Local Storage Resource
The Windows Azure Managed Library provides classes for accessing the local storage resource from within code that is running in a role instance.
You will just need to retrieve the full path of a named local storage, and then you can store any file you want. To retrieve the full path, you simple need this line of code:
RoleEnvironment.GetLocalResource("MainLocalStorage").RootPath
Create Local Storage on Cloud Services to store temporary files
On a cloud service, you can create a small local storage where you can save temporary files, yes I said temporary, because a local storage would not be guaranteed to be durable, for durable storage in Azure you should consider Azure SQL Database or Azure Storage (blob and tables). This reserved space could be useful to store custom error log files (nlog, log4net, …), for those files that are dynamically created by the application and you would like to cache it somewhere, and also for structured data files like database(sql ce, sqlite, …), but remember, just for volatile data.
You can create a local storage manually configuring the Service Definition configuration file, or through the visual studio user interface:
Open the Properties of the Web Role under the Cloud Service Project, go to Local Storage section, and click on “Add Local Storage”, name the storage, give a size, and save.
For more information about Local Storage Resources visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee758708.aspx
How to add a Windows Azure Cloud Service Project on an existing Web Project
How to know if your code is running on the Windows Azure compute emulator
To understand whether the role instance is running in the Windows Azure compute emulator, you simply need to check this static variable:
RoleEnvironment.IsEmulated
Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime (in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll)
How to know if your code is running in the Windows Azure environment
To understand whether the role instance is running in the Windows Azure environment you simply need to check this static variable:
RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable
Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime (in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll)
Adding a PaaS Cloud Service (Web, Woker Role) to a Virtual Network
A PaaS cloud service, web or worker role, can be added in a Virtual Network only by changing its service configuration file (ServiceConfiguration.Cloud.cscfg).
You need to add the NetworkConfiguration node just after the Role node as follow:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> <ServiceConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" serviceName="MyAzureApplication" osFamily="3" osVersion="*" schemaVersion="2013-03.2.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration"> <Role name="MyMvcWebRole"> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=xxx;AccountKey=xxx" /> </ConfigurationSettings> <Instances count="1" /> </Role> <NetworkConfiguration> <VirtualNetworkSite name="myazure-vnet"/> <AddressAssignments> <InstanceAddress roleName="MyMvcWebRole"> <Subnets> <Subnet name="MainSubnet"/> </Subnets> </InstanceAddress> </AddressAssignments> </NetworkConfiguration> </ServiceConfiguration>