As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, just announced the launch of VM Depot, "a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure ...

Using Azure's 'virtual machine agent,' you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how.

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs ...

It's now a little easier to deploy open source software to Microsoft's cloud-based Windows Azure operating system.

How to create and deploy a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure Your email has been sent One of the primary functions of cloud computing services like Microsoft Azure is the creation, deployment ...

A report published Monday cited several sources who said customers of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will be able to run Linux servers on the service starting this spring.

Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image ...