Setting up FTP on our Azure VM is precisely why we’re doing this series: the downside of managing a server when you’re not an IT pro is that when something doesn’t work, you start looking for solutions and trying things …

If you’ve been following along at home, you know we’re setting up a beta testing site for LiveSide running on Azure, mirroring our main site. So far we’ve created a Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine (in Part One…

When you log on to the Server you just set up (see LiveSide on Azure: Part One), you’re greeted by Server Manager, the front end to managing the roles and features on Windows Server. We had to turn on …

Let’s be honest: we had a few fits and starts setting up LiveSide on Azure (including just today, when having IPv6 enabled on the server apparently caused some DNS problems, sorry about that), but after some trial and …

This weekend, we completed a move from a dedicated Windows Server 2008 “real” machine to the Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine running on Azure, rebuilding our WordPress installation and reworking our theme at the same time. We won’t get …

Working through the punchlist: added Pinned Site and Snap View for Windows 8 tweaks, try them out 🙂 http://t.co/bCVuRmf53t

— LiveSide (@liveside) December 29, 2013

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