- #MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL HOW TO#
- #MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL INSTALL#
- #MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL WINDOWS#
for remote servers we need to give the fully qualified name of the server instance. Since here i am going to point to the local server i have mentioned as. So now navigate to the path and give the utility with the parameter as shown below “/” will provides the list of parameters required and it acts like a help form for the utility as shown in the screen below.Īs we can clearly see from the help option, the utility requires a parameter of the local instance (SQL Server instance) as shown in the screen above. So to check the possible input parameters navigate to the path in Command Prompt and give DsInit /. The idea behind this error is, the DsInit utility needs some input parameters to process the request. Just double click on the utility will open a wizard to prepare for the solution, but we can see an error in that process itself indicating that the database will not be created since Server was not found as shown in the screen below
#MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL WINDOWS#
We can see an error now as “ Windows Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage” as shown in the screen belowĪs the error itself mentioned to use the DsInit utility from the Azure SDK, navigate to the path as shown in the screen below and we can see the Utility as highlighted in the screen below. Once we made the changes hit F5 to build and execute our application to see the end result locally before deploying to the cloud. Now a new application will be opened and do some changes as per our requirement as shown in the screen below. In our sample we will select the normal web role(ASP.Net Web Role) and click on OK button as shown in the screen below
#MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL INSTALL#
Select the Cloud tab (left side menu) and click on Windows Azure Project (If by any chance if you see Enable Windows Azure then you need to download the Azure SDK and install the same) and give a project name as shown in the screen belowĬlicking on the OK button will populate a window to select the role as shown in the screen below Open Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Navigate to File –> New Project we can see the new template window as shown in the screen below.
#MICROSOFT AZURE STORAGE EMULATOR FAILED TO INSTALL HOW TO#
Let us see the step by step process on how to produce this issue and fix the same in Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment(though the fix is same across the environments as well) Steps: Today when i opened my new environment (Windows Server 2008 R2) and started my first application in that environment it stopped me while building with an error as “ Windows Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage“Īfter checking some resources then finally got a solution on how to fix this issue. This error is specific to starting Windows Azure Storage Emulator on packaging the Azure application to deploy it to the cloud. In this article we are going to see a real time error fix on initializing Windows Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage Error.