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By: Robert Schweikert

April 27, 2016 3:22 pm

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Back to normal – Azure US East

Well, I am happy to report that we are back to normal operation in the Azure US East region as of Wednesday April 27 1:46 A.M. EST. Late last week Azure had network issues and a storage service outage in the US East region. This affected our update servers in this region. The server […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

March 18, 2016 2:27 pm

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Potential update interruptions for SLES instances in Azure between March 25 and March 27, 2016

Starting Friday March 25, 2016 Azure will enter a 2 day rolling maintenance period that might effect the availability of updates, i.e. "zypper up" may fail, for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 11 (and all service packs) on demand running instances and may effect the automatic registration of newly launched on demand […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

December 3, 2014 1:11 pm

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SUSE Update Infrastructure Changes for Microsoft Azure

SUSE has made it easier and faster for Azure users to keep their Linux workloads up-to-date. In conjunction with the recent release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 images in Microsoft Azure, SUSE enabled a new update infrastructure in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server […]

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