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Maps country codes Northern Ireland
I am using the Maps API to get and verify addresses. As of January 1st, Northern Ireland will have a new country code; I could not find anything about this in the documentation, but does someone know if the Azure Maps API will use that country code for addresses from Northern Ireland directly? Thanks, JeroenPrepare now for Remote Desktop client for Windows end of support
On March 27, 2026, the Remote Desktop client standalone installer (MSI) for Windows will reach end of support. Before that date, IT administrators may need to migrate their users to Windows App so they can continue connecting to their remote resources via Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Microsoft Dev Box. Remote Desktop client will continue to receive security updates until end of support, after which it will no longer be available for download. To learn more about how to prepare for end of support on March 27, 2026, please read aka.ms/RemoteDesktopClient.
Running Commands Across VM Scale Set Instances Without RDP/SSH Using Azure CLI Run Command
If youโve ever managed an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS), youโve likely run into this situation: You need to validate something across all nodes, such as: Checking a configuration value Retrieving logs Applying a registry change Confirming runtime settings Running a quick diagnostic command And then you realize: Youโre not dealing with two or three machines youโre dealing with 40โฆ 80โฆ or even hundreds of instances. The Traditional Approach (and Its Limitations) Historically, administrators would: Open RDP connections to Windows nodes SSH into Linux nodes Execute commands manually on each instance While this may work for a small number of machines, in realโworld environments such as: Azure Batch (userโmanaged pools) Azure Service Fabric (classic clusters) VMSSโbased application tiers This approach quickly becomes: Operationally inefficient Timeโconsuming Sometimes impossible Especially when: RDP or SSH ports are blocked Network Security Groups restrict inbound connectivity Administrative credentials are unavailable Network configuration issues prevent guest access Azure Run Command To address this, Azure provides a builtโin capability to execute commands inside virtual machines through the Azure control plane, without requiring direct guest OS connectivity. This feature is called Run Command. You can review the official documentation here: Run scripts in a Linux VM in Azure using action Run Commands - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn Run scripts in a Windows VM in Azure using action Run Commands - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn Run Command uses the Azure VM Agent installed on the virtual machine to execute PowerShell or shell scripts directly inside the guest OS. Because execution happens via the Azure control plane, you can run commands even when: RDP or SSH ports are blocked NSGs restrict inbound access Administrative user configuration is broken In fact, Run Command is specifically designed to troubleshoot and remediate virtual machines that cannot be accessed through standard remote access methods. Prerequisites & Restrictions. Before using Run Command, ensure the following: VM Agent installed and in Ready state Outbound connectivity from the VM to Azure public IPs over TCP 443 to return execution results. If outbound connectivity is blocked, scripts may run successfully but no output will be returned to the caller. Additional limitations include: Output limited to the last 4,096 bytes One script execution at a time per VM Interactive scripts are not supported Maximum execution time of 90 minutes Full list of restrictions and limitations are available here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/run-command?tabs=portal%2Cpowershellremove#restrictions Required Permissions (RBAC) Executing Run Command requires appropriate Azure RBAC permissions. Action Permission List available Run Commands Microsoft.Compute/locations/runCommands/read Execute Run Command Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/runCommand/action The execution permission is included in: Virtual Machine Contributor role (or higher) Users without this permission will be unable to execute remote scripts through Run Command. Azure CLI: az vm vs az vmss When using Azure CLI, youโll encounter two similarโlooking commands that behave very differently. az vm run-command invoke Used for standalone VMs Also used for Flexible VM Scale Sets Targets VMs by name az vmss run-command invoke Used only for Uniform VM Scale Sets Targets instances by numeric instanceId (0, 1, 2, โฆ) Example: az vmss run-command invoke --instance-id <id> Unlike standalone VM execution, VMSS instances must be referenced using the parameter "--instance-id" to identify which scale set instance will run the script. Important: Uniform vs Flexible VM Scale Sets This distinction is critical when automating Run Command execution. Uniform VM Scale Sets Instances are managed as identical replicas Each instance has a numeric instanceId Supported by az vmss run-command invoke Flexible VM Scale Sets Each instance is a firstโclass Azure VM resource Instance identifiers are VM names, not numbers az vmss run-command invoke is not supported Must use az vm run-command invoke per VM To determine which orchestration mode your VMSS uses: az vmss show -g "${RG}" -n "${VMSS}" --query "orchestrationMode" -o tsv Windows vs Linux Targets Choose the appropriate command ID based on the guest OS: Windows VMs โ RunPowerShellScript Linux VMs โ RunShellScript Example Scenario - Retrieve Hostname From All VMSS Instances The following examples demonstrate how to retrieve the hostname from all VMSS instances using Azure CLI and Bash. Flexible VMSS, Bash (Azure CLI) RG="<ResourceGroup>" VMSS="<VMSSName>" SUBSCRIPTION_ID="<SubscriptionID>" az account set --subscription "${SUBSCRIPTION_ID}" VM_NAMES=$(az vmss list-instances \ -g "${RG}" \ -n "${VMSS}" \ --query "[].name" \ -o tsv) for VM in $VM_NAMES; do echo "Running on VM: $VM" az vm run-command invoke \ -g "${RG}" \ -n "$VM" \ --command-id RunShellScript \ --scripts "hostname" \ --query "value[0].message" \ -o tsv done Uniform VMSS, Bash (Azure CLI) RG="<ResourceGroup>" VMSS="<VMSSName>" SUBSCRIPTION_ID="<SubscriptionID>" az account set --subscription "${SUBSCRIPTION_ID}" INSTANCE_IDS=$(az vmss list-instances -g "${RG}" -n "${VMSS}" --query "[].instanceId" -o tsv) for ID in $INSTANCE_IDS; do echo "Running on instanceId: $ID" az vmss run-command invoke \ -g "${RG}" \ -n "${VMSS}" \ --instance-id "$ID" \ --command-id RunShellScript \ --scripts "hostname" \ --query "value[0].message" \ -o tsv done Summary Azure Run Command provides a scalable method to: Execute diagnostics Apply configuration changes Collect logs Validate runtime settings โฆacross VMSS instances without requiring RDP or SSH connectivity. This significantly simplifies operational workflows in largeโscale compute environments such as: Azure Batch (userโmanaged pools) Azure Service Fabric classic clusters VMSSโbased application tiers
How to change background color of differnent countries in azure maps
I want to change the background color of Europe, America, and China with orange, blue, and red respectively. I have searched azure maps document and their demo example and I didn't find the answer. By default, all countries background color is in white color but I want to change it. Is it possible? If yes please help me. Thank You in Advance
[Architecture Pattern] Scaling Sync-over-Async Edge Gateways by Bypassing Service Bus Sessions
Hi everyone, I wanted to share an architectural pattern and an open-source implementation we recently built to solve a major scaling bottleneck at the edge: bridging legacy synchronous HTTP clients to long-running asynchronous AI workers. The Problem: Stateful Bottlenecks at the Edge When dealing with slow AI generation tasks (e.g., 45+ seconds), standard REST APIs will drop the connection resulting in 504 Gateway Timeouts. The standard integration pattern here is Sync-over-Async. The Gateway accepts the HTTP request, drops a message onto Azure Service Bus, waits for the worker to reply, and maps the reply back to the open HTTP connection. However, the default approach is to use Service Bus Sessions for request-reply correlation. At scale, this introduces severe limitations: 1. Stateful Gateways: The Gateway pod must request an exclusive lock on the session. It becomes tightly coupled to that specific request. 2. Horizontal Elasticity is Broken: If a reply arrives, it must go to the specific pod holding the lock. Other idle pods cannot assist. 3. Hard Limits: A traffic spike easily exhausts the namespace concurrent session limits (especially on the Standard tier). The Solution: Stateless Filtered Topics To achieve true horizontal scale, the API Gateway layer must be 100% stateless. We bypassed Sessions entirely by pushing the routing logic down to the broker using a Filtered Topic Pattern. How it works: 1. The Gateway injects a CorrelationId property (e.g., Instance-A-Req-1) into the outbound request. 2. Instead of locking a session, the Gateway spins up a lightweight, dynamic subscription on a shared Reply Topic with a SQL Filter: CorrelationId = 'Instance-A-Req-1'. 3. The AI worker processes the task and drops the reply onto the shared topic with the same property. 4. The Azure Service Bus broker evaluates the SQL filter and pushes the message directly to the correct Gateway pod. No session locks. No implicit instance affinity. Complete horizontal scalability. If a pod crashes, its temporary subscription simply dropsโpreventing locked poison messages. Open Source Implementation Implementing dynamic Service Bus Administration clients and receiver lifecycles is complex, so I abstracted this pattern into a Spring Boot starter for the community. It handles all the dynamic subscription and routing logic under the hood, allowing developers to execute highly scalable Sync-over-Async flows with a single line of code returning a CompletableFuture. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/ShivamSaluja/sentinel-servicebus-starter Full Technical Write-up: https://dev.to/shivamsaluja/sync-over-async-bypassing-azure-service-bus-session-limits-for-ai-workloads-269d I would love to hear from other architects in this hub. Have you run into similar session exhaustion limits when building Edge API Gateways? Have you adopted similar stateless broker-side routing, or do you rely on sticky sessions at your load balancers?Proyecto Escolar Tecnolรณgico
Estamos haciendo un trabajo de investigaciรณn sobre las nuevas tecnologรญas aplicadas a la gestiรณn empresarial ya que estamos desarrollando un proyecto de software para el sector de odontologรญa y me gustarรญa preguntarle a los expertos: ยฟQuรฉ tecnologรญas se consideran "el estรกndar de oro" o esenciales para aplicar en 2026, y que ustedes ya han utilizado?.Issue with KML display on Azure Maps
Hi, Our company is looking to utilise the Atlas Spatial IO Module as part of Azure Maps in order to allow users to upload their own KML/KMZ files and view them through our platform. However, we have a few issues which I was hoping that you could please assist with: 1. Certain KML/KMZ files which are generated from the Google Earth Desktop version are unable to be properly loaded by the Spatial IO Module. I've attached a copy of a KMZ (crash.kmz.zip - I had to rename it to .zip to upload the file) which exhibits this behavior. Attempting to load it onto the sample shown https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/Spatial%20IO%20Module/Drag%20and%20drop%20spatial%20files%20onto%20map.html results in an infinite loading sequence along with the following message being thrown in the console: DataCloneError: The object could not be cloned. We believe this is being caused by the empty <Icon> XML tags which are automatically generated by Google Earth. 2. We are also unable to properly load external icons which come from Google Earth despite adding in the correct CSP policies in our application. The default fallback icon is used instead. I've attached a copy of a KML file which is unable to load the icons; the same file in Leaflet correctly displays the icons used as shown in the images below. I also attached a copy of this KML file below (2007SanDiegoCountyFiresZipped.zip). In addition, logging the output of the read() function in the Spatial IO Module for the file has the icons property as empty. If you could please provide some assistance that would be much appreciated. Thanks!Windows App - RDP channel crashes when printing on a redirected canon printer
Hey team, I would like to know, if anyone else struggles with the following scenario: A canon printer is installed on a local client. The user is working in the AVD environment. The printers are redirected into the AVD-Session via "printer redirect". Since the users are migrating to the new "Windows App", the AVD session breaks as soon as the user is printing on a redirected Canon-Printer. When printing on another printer, there is no issue. Also: With the "Microsoft-Remotedesktop" Application, everything works as it should. A Microsoft ticket is already raised. I would like to know if there are other environments, which are encountering the same issue.Azure Maps - services not available
Since a few days we regularly receive the following message on api (get /route/directions) : <title>AzureMaps</title></head><body><div id='content'><div id='message'> <h2>Our services aren't available right now</h2> <p>We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon. Any idea when this is completely solved again ?
Excited to share my latest open-source project: KubeCost Guardian
After seeing how many DevOps teams struggle with Kubernetes cost visibility on Azure, I built a full-stack cost optimization platform from scratch. ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐: โ Real-time AKS cluster monitoring via Azure SDK โ Cost breakdown per namespace, node, and pod โ AI-powered recommendations generated from actual cluster state โ One-click optimization actions โ JWT-secured dashboard with full REST API ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ: - React 18 + TypeScript + Vite - Tailwind CSS + shadcn/ui + Recharts - Node.js + Express + TypeScript - Azure SDK (@azure/arm-containerservice) - JWT Authentication + Azure Service Principal ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐: Most cost tools show you generic estimates. KubeCost Guardian reads your actual VM size, node count, and cluster configuration to generate recommendations that are specific to your infrastructure not averages. For example, if your cluster has only 2 nodes with no autoscaler enabled, it immediately flags the HA risk and calculates exactly how much you'd save by switching to Spot instances based on your actual VM size. This project is fully open-source and built for the DevOps community. โญ GitHub: https://github.com/HlaliMedAmine/kubecost-guardian This project represents hours of hard work, and passion. I decided to make it open-source so everyone can benefit from it ๐ค ,If you find it useful, Iโd really appreciate your support . Your support motivates me to keep building and sharing more powerful projects ๐. More exciting ideas are coming soonโฆ stay tuned! ๐ฅ.Building a Production-Ready Azure Lighthouse Deployment Pipeline with EPAC
Recently I worked on an interesting project for an end-to-end Azure Lighthouse implementation. What really stood out to me was the combination of Azure Lighthouse, EPAC, DevOps, and workload identity federation. The deployment model was so compelling that I decided to build and validate the full solution hands-on in my own personal Azure tenants. The result is a detailed article that documents the entire journey, including pipeline design, implementation steps, and the scripts I prepared along the way. You can read the full article herePipeline Intelligence is live and open-source real-time Azure DevOps monitoring powered by AI .
Every DevOps team I've worked with had the same problem: Slow pipelines. Zero visibility. No idea where to start. So I stopped complaining and built the solution. So I built something about it. โก Pipeline Intelligence is a full-stack Azure DevOps monitoring dashboard that: โ Connects to your real Azure DevOps organization via REST API โ Detects bottlenecks across all your pipelines automatically โ Calculates exactly how much time your team is wasting per month โ Uses Gemini AI to generate prioritized fixes with ready-to-paste YAML solutions โ JWT-secured, Docker-ready, and fully open-source Tech Stack: โ React 18 + Vite + Tailwind CSS โ Node.js + Express + Azure DevOps API v7 โ Google Gemini 1.5 Flash โ JWT Authentication + Docker ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐? Most tools show you generic estimates. Pipeline Intelligence reads your actual cluster config, node count, and pipeline structure and gives you recommendations specific to your infrastructure. ๐ฏ This year, I set myself a personal challenge: Build and open-source a series of production-grade tools exclusively focused on Azure services tools that solve real problems for real DevOps teams. This project represents weeks of research, architecture decisions, and late-night debugging sessions. I'm sharing it with the community because I believe great tooling should be accessible to everyone not locked behind enterprise paywalls. If this resonates with you, I have one simple ask: ๐ A like, a comment, or a share takes 3 seconds but it helps this reach the DevOps engineers who need it most. Your support is what keeps me building. โค๏ธ GitHub: https://github.com/HlaliMedAmine/pipeline-intelligence
Android SDK BoundingBox padding works different than the padding from web sdk?
Hello! I'm currently working on an Android application and I have to migrate the map from native sdk to web sdk using webview. I'm our current logic we use a lot the bounding box so we can have direct visibility of 2 pins, the main issue is that when I'm trying to add bearing and padding it seems like it is applied relative to the current orientation rather than on android sdk where it applies in absolute directions, regardless of the map's bearing. Has anyone encountered this or anyone know any tips for this? Thanks!Azure VMs host (platform) metrics (not guest metrics) to the log analytics workspace ?
Hi Team, Can some one help me how to send Azure VMs host (platform) metrics (not guest metrics) to the log analytics workspace ? Earlier some years ago I used to do it, by clicking on โDiagnostic Settingsโ, but now if I go to โDiagnostic Settingsโ tab its asking me to enable guest level monitoring (guest level metrics I donโt want) and pointing to a Storage Account. I donโt see the option to send the these metrics to Log analytics workspace. I have around 500 azure VMs whose host (platform) metrics (not guest metrics) I want to send it to the log analytics workspace.Azure Maps computeBestOrder=true returns wrong originalWaypointIndexAtEndOfLeg values
Hi. I am trying to create a module where clients can optimize their routes using the Azure Maps service using DevExpress Map Control v24.2.5 Unfortunately when parsing to Azure Maps service computeBestOrder=true (regardless the RouteType) the JSON back has errors when sets the values for originalWaypointIndexAtEndOfLeg which DevExpress translates, which means cannot keep actual track of the changes in the route. Example. computeBestOrder=true routetype=shortest query= while the list of the Legs is correct, the originalWaypointIndexAtEndOfLeg property is not. So according to the JSON results from the API (the system ignores Origin and Final Destination so is 0 based list of Waypoints) 0 -> 3 (Is true) 1 -> 2 (Is false, is actually 1 -> 4) 2 -> 0 (Is false, is actually 2 -> 2) - example bellow 3 -> 1 (Is true) 4 -> 4 (Is false, is actually 4 -> 5) That could have been an non issue if at the same time Azure wasn't truncating the Lat/Lon values, which the rounding is not simple Math.Round 5, so cannot get a meaningful way to build back the changes to the route and apply the correct location labels. Is there something wrong with the service or the interpretation by myself and DevExpress is not correct when reading the originalWaypointIndexAtEndOfLeg values? If you have any queries, ฮฟฯ requiring more information please let me know. Thank you.Azure support team not responding to support request
I am posting here because I have not received a response to my support request despite my plan stating that I should hear back within 8 hours. It has now gone a day beyond that limit, and I am still waiting for assistance with this urgent matter. This issue is critical for my operations, and the delay is unacceptable. The ticket/reference number for my original support request was 2410100040000309. And I have created a brand new service request with ID 2412160040010160. I need this addressed immediately.
Azure Devops - Best way to create a burndown chart for an Epic
Hi, What is the best way to create a chart that would should the burndown (or burnup) of Story Points completed on User Stories under one or more Epics? I have never been able to do this within Azure DevOps itself. Have just picked up PowerBi and can't do it there either! Regards M
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