Today I wanted to reactivate an expired Trial of a Windows
Azure hosted VM. As I’m motivated to pay for this Service, I thought I can just
go to the account Management, add my credit Card data and would be ready to
reactivate my SharePoint Installation.
I checked my available Services and discovered, that my
VM was deleted somehow. I checked then if my Image is still in the
Gallery, by luck it was. I decided to set up a new VM and attach the existing
disk. I was able to create the new VM and attach existing disk. While
provisioning the following error appeared:
“A lease conflict occurred with the blob <blob
url>”
It seems that in the service configuration, my machine is
still registered and based on the naming convections my VM could not be
recreated. So how to recreate a new machine with the same disk?
There is a Manual how to redeploy a deleted machine, but it didn’t
help in my Case.
I found another article which involves power shell to delete
the existing lease, unfortunately this didn’t work for me also.
The error I received after running this script was, that my
storage account is not properly linked to my account.
If all of the above steps didn’t help, only Microsoft Azure
Support can help u. But remember, u need to buy the technical support option.
The billing guys won’t help you… welcome in the cloud ;-)
Summary: Add payment Details before your Trial expires, or u might loose ur work.
