Yooakim's questions

I am trying to add a VHD image from my local filesystem to Azure BLOB storage. Whenever I do this after about 6 minutes I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request". I use the following steps to upload the image (using Azure Resource Manager):

PS C:\Users\myuser> Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionId aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-0123456789012

Environment           : AzureCloud
Account               : [email protected]
TenantId              : aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-0123456789012
SubscriptionId        : aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-0123456789012
SubscriptionName      : MySubscription
CurrentStorageAccount :

PS C:\Users\myuser>
PS C:\Users\myuser> $rgName = "MyResourceGroupName"
PS C:\Users\myuser> $urlOfUploadedImageVhd = "https://myblobaccount.blob.core.windows.net/myvirtualmachine.vhd"
PS C:\Users\myuser>
PS C:\Users\myuser> Add-AzureRmVhd -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Destination $urlOfUploadedImageVhd -LocalFilePath C:\Users\myuser\myvirtualmachine.vhd
MD5 hash is being calculated for the file  C:\Users\myuser\myvirtualmachine.vhd.
MD5 hash calculation is completed.
Elapsed time for the operation: 00:06:29
Creating new page blob of size 136365212160...
Add-AzureRmVhd : The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-AzureRmVhd -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Destination $urlOfUploaded ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Add-AzureRmVhd], StorageException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Compute.StorageServices.AddAzureVhdCommand

I have no idea how to debug this further? I would very much appreciate any help in finding out what is going wrong.

I have a Office365 account with out own domain (a.com) and we have added a second domain (b.com) Both domains receives mail just fine.

How do I let the users choose which domain they should send from?

I want the user to be able to choose the "From" address when they send an e-mail message.

I have found a lot of how-to's but they all require the setup of additional accouints which in my view seems overly complex.

Any suggestions are most welcome!

My client needs to improve the performance of their WAN. They have three sites spread som 600 km apart with roughly 400 users per site. It's mainly a Microsoft environment.

Today they are using Windows XP clients and Windows Server 2003 (and some 2008 R2)

They have done a pilot with a 3rd party WAN accelerator and performance increase was good but it did not work as transparently as they wished for.

Since this is a Microsoft shop I want to recommend them to upgrade clients to Windows 7 and servers to Windows Server 2008 R2 and enable branche cache.

But I have no experience of my own with branchecache and thus I am asking everyone here at ServerFault, what is your experience of using Microsoft BranchCache to optimize WAN performance?

I want to start a Minecraft Server as a Service in a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine.

This command line works fine:

c:\Windows\System32\java.exe -cp c:\Data\minecraft-server\minecraft-server.jar com.mojang.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer -Xms512M -X mx512M

The I created a service using the following SC command:

sc config MinecraftServer binPath= "c:\Windows\System32\java.exe -cp c:\Data\minecraft-server\minecraft-server.jar com.mojang.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer -Xms512M -Xmx512M"

The service is created and when I start the service Windows starts it but then it comes back with a message that says:

The service is not responding to the control function.

The service does start but for some reason the command does not let the system know that it is started.

There is something simple that I've missed but I am not very experienced with Java so if anoyone here can give my guidance it would be very welcome!