Mathias Rönnlund's questions

We have our current corporate website hosted on traditional servers that we point to with an ip address. Our website is available at example.com and www.example.com and both domains have A records pointing at the the server ip.

We are now starting to host our website in Azure and the environment is fronted by Azure Front door. So we don't have an ip address anymore, only the address examplecom-prod.z01.azurefd.net.

For the www.example.com I think it's fairly simple to remove the A record and add a cname record pointing to examplecom-prod.z01.azurefd.net.

For the apex domain example.com I'm not sure. Is it as easy there? Just remove the A record and add a cname?

We have a "traditional" dns service, where some outsourcing company manages our dns services. We host a lot of services in the cloud (mostly Azure) and then must submit tickets to the dns guys to create cname -registrations (and sometimes also txt records for domain ownership validation) pointing to the services.

E.g. a web service in Azure could be at the address ourapplication.azurewebsites.net and today we would create a cname such as ourapplication.ourcompany.com pointing to that.

A lot of these services could very well be hosted in a subdomain such as ourapplication.app.ourcompany.com.

In Azure there is service called Dns Zone, which to my understanding is a full dns service. Can we keep our current dns setup for the main ourcompany.com domain but have dns services for *.app.ourcompany.com in Azure?

Is it possible to backup individual files (i.e. database backups) from the disk of an on-premise Linux (CentOS) server to the Azure Recovery Services vault?

Do I need the Recovery Services agent and is that available for Linux?

Or is there a smarter way?

I could also make a script which would transfer my backup files to Azure blob storage. Can I then connect some Azure service to the blob storage so it would remove files according to some policy/schedule?

Using Windows 2012 R2 Standard server with IIS. Windows firewall has preset rules World Wide Web Services (HTTP Traffic-In) and World Wide Web Services (HTTPS Traffic-In) enabled. The server has one web with the following bindings:

http - empty value / any domain - 80
http - example.com - 80
https - example.com - 443
https - empty value / any domain - 443

Urls tried from external machine:
http://example.com - works
http://my.ip.address - works
https://example.com - not working
https://my.ip.address - not working

Urls tried from local server
http://example.com - works
http://localhost - works
http://my.ip.address - works
https://example.com - not working
https://localhost - works
https://my.ip.address - not working

So http works for all addresses from all locations. Https works when run on local machine with address localhost but https does not work in any other way. What am I missing? Do I need to open other firewall rules/ports other than 443?

We have a server that is installed and running and now we would like to make copies of it. The server is Windows 2012 with Sql Server 2014 Standard.

I havn't found any information regarding this, so is it possible at all? What are the steps to do it? When creating a new machine based on the template, what needs to be done to the new machine?

As a side note the machine is running in Azure at the moment and we hope to be able to add it to our own Azure VM templates.