The Windows Azure Web Sites offers two options 32bits or 64bits. New sites come with 32bits by default. For a server configuration it feels a bit odd because, AFAIK, the vast majority of web servers have been in 64bits config for years now. Considering the usual use cases for ASP.NET sites, are there any reasons to favor 32bits over 64bits?
I would like to know if it is possible - and how - to define a list a Google Apps users as a list of co-administrators of a Windows Azure subscription? Basically, the process would be equivalent to replacing the Microsoft Live authentication by the Google authentication.
The virtual machines on Windows Azure allow to connect from RDP. But how can I reset the administrator password if the password has been lost?
I might be missing something obvious with the new Management Portal for Windows Azure, but how do I select the subscription where the new resource (compute, storage, site, ...) is being created? Can someone pinpoint where the subscription selection takes place in the UI?
I would like to achieve a behavior similar to the NotifyExtension of Mercurial, except that instead of an email to be send, it would be an HTTP request to be performed on a specified URL.
Does anyone know how to achieve such a behavior?
I am facing a company that have a fairly recent Microsoft Dynamics NAV (C/Side) setup that comes with a non-SQL storage system called the native database server. I would need to be remotely connect to this database, and perform what would equate to SQL queries with very modest needs (no join, no complex filtering).
I am rather ignorant of this technology, does someone knows to how make remote queries to this ERP?
I have a MySQL database that I would like to remotely access from Windows Azure which does not provide fixed IP addresses at this point. Instead of white-listing a very large IP range to cover the entire Microsoft datacenter, it would be preferable to check for the hostname instead. Indeed, if I was allowing `myuser@'foo.example.com', DNS resolution being made when establishing a new connection to MySQL then varying IP address would not be an issue anymore.
Does anyone is such a scheme is possible with MySQL?
I would like to create a publicly accessible Google Apps site (i.e. users do not need to be authenticated to access the content) while maintaining a policy crawlers and bots exclusion with Robots.txt. Does anyone know how to do that?
I am administering a public web forum based on Invision Power Board v2.3.6. Registrations are already filtered thanks to ReCaptcha, but I still have loads of people that seems to register manually to actually post 1 or 2 spams and never look back.
Validating the registration upfront does not seem very tractable because I can distinguish between regular users and spammers.
The ideal solution would be to put newly registered users on probation to let them freely post, but to keep the posts invisible as long they have not been manually validated.
Then, the manual validation would directly upgrade genuine posters as regular users (posts being directly visible, no moderation).
IPB provides a complex policy system, I think such scheme (or something equivalent) is possible. Any ideas on this matter?