Remote desktop accesibility

Question

Dear Admin/Moderator,

Our site is build using PHP/MYSQL and the application is already deployed at www.buydealz.com.. 

We want to have the remote desktop accessibility to my virtual server in order to reset the ROOT password of MYSQL. We request you to kindly let us know the details or instruction to connect to the remote desktop of our server..

RC

Answer 1

Hi,

What Azure services are you using to host the website?

If you are using Web Roles, toy will have to re-deploy or update the deployment to allow RDP connections. If you are using Azure Websites, you cannot use Remote Desktop.

Regards,

Alan

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Answer 2

We have "Windows Azure MSDN - Visual Studio Ultimate"

Kindly let us know whether we can have RDP for this subscription.. If not provide the details (or link) where we can go for an option of WEB ROLES to access RDP

Answer 3

buydealz - do you know how your application is deployed on Azure? it would generally be either a 'Cloud Service' a 'Web Site' or a 'Virtual Machine'

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Answer 4

Hi,

If you use cloud services, you can refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg443832.aspx to see how to enable remote desktop. But please note changing password using RDP does not work in general for web roles. It is recommended to use a startup task to modify the password, so when you redeploy the app or add a new instance, it is not needed to RDP to the new instance again.

Best Regards,

Ming Xu.

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