Only one instance works with Azure October 2012 SDK on IIS7.5

Question

I just upgraded my Azure solution to VS2012 and October 2012 version. I have 2 webroles but only 1 of them is working now when I look it from IIS Manager. I'm sure of it because my webrole's inter-role communication requests are failing too.

First I tought it can be another problem so I asked this question: Windows 8 Azure Emulator is Remapping Port 80 to 81

Here you can see my IIS Manager:

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and RESOLVED it following the suggested Registry hack here: Strange behavior of Windows Azure Compute Emulator (SDK 1.8) with multiple role instances on a clean machine with VS2012 but WITHOUT VS2010

Anyone with this issue, please pile onto this connect log for MS to properly fix: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/773786/azure-sdk-1-8-binds-several-web-roles-to-the-same-port-on-local-emulator

Answer 2

It's a bug, I hope it's fixed in the next update by Microsoft. Definitely happens if you have VS2012 on Windows 8 and didn't install/upgrade VS2010

Workaround:

• Create a text file (*.reg) with this and import into your registry (double click .reg file in explorer)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\10.0] "SP"=dword:00000001

• Kill the process i.e. exit VS2012, exit compute emulator (or just reboot if in doubt).
• Fire it up again!