How to use an A-drive on Azure Hosted Virtual Machine with a Non-genuine Windows on it ...?

When you publish a web/worker role to Azure and request that Remote Desktop is activated, you can visit your VM afterwards via RD.

Your can browse through your drives .....

I still wonder how I can use the floppy-drive :-) though. Also notice the remark in right bottom corner : "this copy of Windows is not genuine".

Best regards,


PS: According to Maarten Balliauw this is because they closed some "windows services" on the VM that are responsible for checking this compliancy.

In case you're wondering if Azure is down ...

http://iswindowsazuredown.tumblr.com/

:-)


ps : MS promises a full analysis report on the outage of 28/29 february