Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password

Lately I’ve been doing some experiments with Active Directory and of course I’m running my lab environment in Azure. It works great, until after 42 days the password of the one and only user account (mine) in the domain expires. Azure only provides remote desktop access to virtual machines, and in a default setup it’s… Continue reading Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password

TLS on Azure with Legacy Android

In a recent project using Azure, SSL worked perfectly on all devices – but those running Android 2.X. It turned out that legacy Android has limited support for modern SSL/TLS features such as SNI and subject alternative name. Getting TLS configuration right nowadays can be quite tricky. Google Chrome is aggressively pushing for deprecation of… Continue reading TLS on Azure with Legacy Android

Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM

I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To be able to test a different setup I turned to Azure and set up a machine with VS2013 Pro and installed Swedish language support. Once I found the right way, it was very straight forward. The problem was… Continue reading Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM