Deploying stateless service in Microsoft Azure

As Public Cloud are becoming an integral part of modern IT , organizations are exploring how they deploy and run a Stateless Service in Microsoft Azure cloud. Stateless services does not maintain their state in a persistent manner.

If you are planning on designing a an application which can be deployed as a stateless service these resources will help you to have more understanding on this :

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-application-scenarios/

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/azure/understanding-azure-service-fabric-microsofts-next-generation-paas-platform.html 

http://blog.geist.no/azure-service-fabric-introduction-getting-it-running

Some packages are not compatible with UAP

You may get following error messages when trying to install  some Azure packages in UWP application:

Microsoft.Data.OData 5.7.0 is not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0.
System.Spatial 5.7.0 is not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0.
Microsoft.Data.Edm 5.7.0 is not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0.
Some packages are not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0
Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Uwp.Managed 1.1.0 is not compatible with UAP,Version=v10.0

Solution : As per this article on stack overflow , you need to follow these steps:

  • download the latest version of nuget.exe from https://dist.nuget.org/index.html
  • list the local cache with this command: nuget locals all -list
  • clear all caches with this command: nuget locals all -clear

Still if you are having the same issue please refer to this ink : https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent/issues/435

AWS Cloud Training in Delhi and Noida

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Below is the course outline for AWS Cloud Training in Noida:
  • Introduction and History of AWS
  • AWS Foundational Services: EC2, VPC, S3, EBS
  • AWS Security, Identity, and Access Management: IAM
  • AWS Databases: RDS, DynamoDB
  • AWS Management Tools: Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, Trusted Advisor
After completing the course you will be able to :
  • Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and navigate the AWS Management Console.
  • Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).
  • Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
  • Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
  • Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor.
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Event ID 68518–The virtual machine couldn't be replicated

Problem:  You are trying to replicate a server to Azure and receiving the error “The virtual machine couldn't be replicated” and an event is generated with following Description:

Error ID : 68518
Possible causes : More than 20% of the replication cycles for virtual machine 'Treeserver' in cloud/site 'CND'   have been missed. Replication couldn't complete because of issues with   connectivity to the Azure storage account.

Recommendation : Fix any issues in the Event Viewer logs (Applications and   Service Logs - MicrosoftAzureRecoveryServices) on the Hyper-V host server and   if required resume the replication.

Solution : This problem is occurs when you don't have enough space on the local drive of the server which you are replicating. The only option is to increase the local disk space. Please refer to this KP Article published by Microsoft:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/kb/3184854

Blogger is not working with Wndows Live Writer

You might be wondering why Blogger is not working with Wndows Live Writer and you cant login to Blogger from Windows Live Writer during the initial configuration. Actually Google has stopped support for Windows Live Writer because Microsoft did not upgrade the application and gradually stopped it from new releases.Using an application which is not getting updated is a security concern from Google which is good thing. If you still need a similar desktop based tool to edit Blogger posts , there is an alternative called Open Live Writer. You can download it here : http://openlivewriter.org/ .

Here are the tutorials to configure adding a Blogger account in Open Live Writer: