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Way to minimize the impact of Allocation Failure issue in Cloud Service Extended Support
2/21/2025, Azure PaaS Blog
Allocation Failure is a common issue for Cloud Service Extended Support. The cause of this issue is explained in our official document. The best solutions are as documented: Redeploy to a new Cloud Service or Delete Swappable Cloud Services. But for both, the downtime is unavoidable. For real user scenario, it’s almost impossible and very harmful to completely delete a Production environment deployment and recreate it as it will cause a huge impact.   This blog will mainly talk about the way to mitigate the Allocation Failure issue by switch the request to newly created Cloud Service in...
Adjusting VM Size in Classic Cloud Services Without .csdef access for Migration to CSES
5/10/2024, Azure PaaS Blog
Co-Authors: David Padilla, Pablo CastroScenario  Customers migrating from Classic Cloud Service to Cloud Service (Extended Support) often face a challenge if they have been running Classic Cloud Services for years without changes, leading to lost source code or only having access to the final product (package and .cscfg files).   A frequent migration issue arises when the Classic Cloud Service utilizes a deprecated VM SKU Family like (A-Series), and without the source code, customers are unable to modify the VM size in the Service Definition File and repackage the project.  The following...
How to use Azure DevOps to publish cloud service extended support
11/23/2022, Azure PaaS Blog
Azure cloud service extended support(CSES) is a new Azure Resource Manager based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services product. Cloud Services (extended support) has the primary benefit of providing regional resiliency along with feature parity with Azure Cloud Services deployed using Azure Service Manager. It also offers some ARM capabilities such as role-based access and control (RBAC), tags, policy, and supports deployment templates.    For the classic cloud service, we have Azure DevOps built-in pipeline task Azure Cloud Service Deployment task - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft...