Using the Portal: Auto-upgrade mode to manage the Windows Azure guest OS for your service

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Some time back I posted about the new feature that was release for Windows Azure: Windows Azure guest OS auto-upgrade. In this post we walk through the feature using the Developer Portal UI. The portal makes enabling auto-upgrade mode for your service even easier.

 

1. New Deployment: For a new deployment, auto-upgrade mode is chosen by default on the portal.

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2. Existing Deployment: If you already have a service with a fixed osVersion, you can change the mode to Auto-upgrade on the portal by :

a. Clicking on OS Settings

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b. Changing the OS upgrade mode on the OS Settings page

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3. Current OS of your deployment

You can easily find out the version of the OS that your service is running on the portal.

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NOTE: If your service is not using the latest available OS, you will get a warning about it on the portal, like so:

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