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We have introduced a new distribution mode called Source IP Affinity and is also known as session affinity or client IP affinity.

In this post, we will show you how to use certificates in your Azure Websites application.

In this final post in our series on Business Continuity I’m going to look at point-in-time restore, a self-service feature available for Basic, Standard, and Premium databases.

WordPress is one of the most popular Blogging Engines that not only allows you to create blog websites, it can also be used to create corporate as well as ecommerce sites with its oceans of plugins and extensibility.

This post describes some simple steps and guidelines on the process of using the information from this DMV to evaluate and pick the right performance tier for your database workload.

Earlier today we announced the availability of our public preview of Azure Media Services live services. We will have several posts this week covering different aspects of our live streaming capabilities and how to use them.

This post provides an overview of how the Azure Storage platform simplifies development by providing first class support for all three of these concurrency strategies.

If you are working on an LAMP or WAMP application and want to host it on Azure , Azure websites is the fastest and most reliable way to host your application on Azure.

With the launch of the Azure preview portal and the support for the Azure extension model, there are new diagnostic capabilities available that will help you better monitor your Azure IaaS VMs with very little setup and configuration.

If you’re a user of Azure Automation, you already know how useful it can be for automating manual, long running, frequently repeated, and error prone tasks that keep your cloud services up and running.

VMAccess extension enables you to reset the password, SSH key, or the SSH configurations, so you can regain the access

We found a few areas where we could improve the WebJobs publishing story from the command line and continuous integration stories and have an update that fills these gaps.