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This video shows how to fix the Error ACS50008 in the context of Microsoft Azure Access Control Service. This error usually is displayed as an Inner Message like this: An error occurred while processing your request.HTTP Error Code: 401Message: ACS20001: An error occurred while processing a WS-Federation sign-in response.Inner Message: ACS5008:SAML token is invalid.Trace ID: 903f515f-3196-40c9-a334-71277700aca6Timestamp: 2014-03-02 10:16:16Z Links: How to fix Error ACS50008...
Published 03/06/14
This video shows how to fix the Error ACS50008 in the context of Microsoft Azure Access Control Service. This error usually is displayed as an Inner Message like this: An error occurred while processing your request.HTTP Error Code: 401Message: ACS20001: An error occurred while processing a WS-Federation sign-in response.Inner Message: ACS5008:SAML token is invalid.Trace ID: 903f515f-3196-40c9-a334-71277700aca6Timestamp: 2014-03-02 10:16:16Z Links: How to fix Error ACS50008...
Published 03/06/14
This video shows you how to automatically collect Microsoft Azure Storage Analytic logs. Storage Analytics are key to diagnosing issues with blob, table and queue storage. You can run the Windows Azure Storage Analytics Diagnostics package (.DiagCab) to automatically collect the logs previously generated. Before using this package, you will need to enable Windows Azure Storage Analytics. Links: Download .DiagCab...
Published 03/06/14
This video shows you how to automatically collect Microsoft Azure Storage Analytic logs. Storage Analytics are key to diagnosing issues with blob, table and queue storage. You can run the Windows Azure Storage Analytics Diagnostics package (.DiagCab) to automatically collect the logs previously generated. Before using this package, you will need to enable Windows Azure Storage Analytics. Links: Download .DiagCab...
Published 03/06/14
This video is part four of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use application logging and how you can troubleshoot a crash in your application. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 2: Remote DebuggingPart 3: Failed Request Tracing Additional Resources: Enable Diagnostic Logging for Microsoft Azure Web SitesTracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:27] Adding Instrumentation to...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part four of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use application logging and how you can troubleshoot a crash in your application. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 2: Remote DebuggingPart 3: Failed Request Tracing Additional Resources: Enable Diagnostic Logging for Microsoft Azure Web SitesTracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:27] Adding Instrumentation to...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part three of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use Failed Request Tracing to narrow down a problem with a slow page in your application. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 2: Remote DebuggingPart 4: Application Logging and Crashes Additional Resources: Troubleshooting Slow Requests in Microsoft Azure Web SitesHow to FTP Into a WAWS Site Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:24] Reproducing a...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part three of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use Failed Request Tracing to narrow down a problem with a slow page in your application. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 2: Remote DebuggingPart 4: Application Logging and Crashes Additional Resources: Troubleshooting Slow Requests in Microsoft Azure Web SitesHow to FTP Into a WAWS Site Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:24] Reproducing a...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part two of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use Visual Studio to remote debug your application running in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 3: Failed Request TracingPart 4: Application Logging and Crashes Additional Resources: Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Web Sites in Visual Studio Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:37] Reviewing a Detailed Error Message for an...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part two of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to use Visual Studio to remote debug your application running in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. Other Videos: Part 1: Troubleshooting ErrorsPart 3: Failed Request TracingPart 4: Application Logging and Crashes Additional Resources: Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Web Sites in Visual Studio Quick Time Links for this Video: [00:37] Reviewing a Detailed Error Message for an...
Published 03/05/14
This video is part one of a four part video series on diagnostics in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. In this video, you'll learn how to troubleshoot application errors in Microsoft Azure Web Sites. Other Videos: Part 2: Remote DebuggingPart 3: Failed Request TracingPart 4: Application Logging and Crashes Additional Resources: How to Monitor Web Sites Quick Links for this Video: [00:49] Configuring Detailed Error Messages[02:07] Logging into Your Site with FileZilla[04:37] Downloading the Detailed...
Published 03/05/14
Visual Studio 2013 makes it easy to enable and visualize diagnostics in a Microsoft Azure cloud service. You can configure the collection of standard Microsoft Azure diagnostic data such as application logs, event logs, performance counters and infrastructure logs. Just make sure to pick a reasonable transfer period so as not to impact performance, and keep the total information collected under the 4096 overall diagnostic quota. We will also demonstrate how to easily add diagnostic trace...
Published 02/14/14
Visual Studio 2013 makes it easy to enable and visualize diagnostics in a Microsoft Azure cloud service. You can configure the collection of standard Microsoft Azure diagnostic data such as application logs, event logs, performance counters and infrastructure logs. Just make sure to pick a reasonable transfer period so as not to impact performance, and keep the total information collected under the 4096 overall diagnostic quota. We will also demonstrate how to easily add diagnostic trace...
Published 02/14/14
Visual Studio 2013 enables you to modify the collection of diagnostic data after a cloud service is deployed to Microsoft Azure. This is a useful technique to collect troubleshooting information from a single instance or to temporarily increase the logging level in order to diagnose a problem. Changes that you made via the Visual Studio Server Explorer will persist until you do a full re-deployment of your cloud service because the diagnostic configuration is written to the...
Published 02/03/14
Visual Studio 2013 enables you to modify the collection of diagnostic data after a cloud service is deployed to Microsoft Azure. This is a useful technique to collect troubleshooting information from a single instance or to temporarily increase the logging level in order to diagnose a problem. Changes that you made via the Visual Studio Server Explorer will persist until you do a full re-deployment of your cloud service because the diagnostic configuration is written to the...
Published 02/03/14
If you have a Access Control Service (ACS) namespace you will periodically see email indicating your certificate, key or password is about to expire. This video will guide you through what to check for to ensure all you certificates, keys and passwords are up to date. The code references it this presentation can downloaded at https://aka.ms/P4rzx3 Links ACS: Certificates and KeysACS Management Service API ReferenceCode Sample: ACS Management Service
Published 12/06/13
If you have a Access Control Service (ACS) namespace you will periodically see email indicating your certificate, key or password is about to expire. This video will guide you through what to check for to ensure all you certificates, keys and passwords are up to date. The code references it this presentation can downloaded at https://aka.ms/P4rzx3 Links ACS: Certificates and KeysACS Management Service API ReferenceCode Sample: ACS Management Service
Published 12/06/13
Microsoft Azure Storage Analytics generates logs to trace requests, analyze usage trends. Storage Analytics logs contain detailed information for authenticated requests and successful anonymous requests to a storage service. Logs are stored in block blobs in a container named $logs which is automatically created when you enable analytics on a given storage account. It is very useful to enable Storage analytics to diagnose issues with storage accounts. Links: Storage Analytics...
Published 11/26/13
Microsoft Azure Storage Analytics generates logs to trace requests, analyze usage trends. Storage Analytics logs contain detailed information for authenticated requests and successful anonymous requests to a storage service. Logs are stored in block blobs in a container named $logs which is automatically created when you enable analytics on a given storage account. It is very useful to enable Storage analytics to diagnose issues with storage accounts. Links: Storage Analytics...
Published 11/26/13
Microsoft Azure Diagnostics (WAD) enables you to collect diagnostic data from Cloud Services running in Microsoft Azure. WAD fulfills two new diagnostic gathering requirements introduced by the Microsoft Azure scale-out architecture: Save diagnostic data that would be lost during a reimaging of the instance.Provide a central repository for diagnostics from multiple instances. Using windows azure diagnostics, you can collect diagnostics data off of multiple instances at onceLinks:...
Published 10/30/13
Microsoft Azure Diagnostics (WAD) enables you to collect diagnostic data from Cloud Services running in Microsoft Azure. WAD fulfills two new diagnostic gathering requirements introduced by the Microsoft Azure scale-out architecture: Save diagnostic data that would be lost during a reimaging of the instance.Provide a central repository for diagnostics from multiple instances. Using windows azure diagnostics, you can collect diagnostics data off of multiple instances at onceLinks:...
Published 10/30/13
This video will describe the diagnostic data available on Microsoft Azure PaaS Virtual Machine, and how to easily gather and preserve this data. Additional Resources https://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2013/08/09/windows-azure-paas-compute-diagnostics-data.aspx - More detailed information about the diagnostics data, links to the SDP package, and a troubleshooting series showing how to troubleshoot various issues....
Published 09/27/13
This video will describe the diagnostic data available on Microsoft Azure PaaS Virtual Machine, and how to easily gather and preserve this data. Additional Resources https://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2013/08/09/windows-azure-paas-compute-diagnostics-data.aspx - More detailed information about the diagnostics data, links to the SDP package, and a troubleshooting series showing how to troubleshoot various issues....
Published 09/27/13