Web Apps
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Products that we listen to in this space include: App Service, Web Apps, API Apps and Web App for Containers.
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WebApp custom DNS with private DNS Name
Custom DNS HostName for a WebApp is working exactly in the same way in both Azure and Azure Stack, with both ownership and record check against a public Internet DNS server. That's pretty cool for public facing web applications, but represents a security issue for :
1)Intranet applications.(hosted on Azure or AzureStack)
- Custom Domain Names makes sence not only for Internet but Intranet too.
- We don't want to expose intranet application names publicly to the wild...
2)Multi-tenant AzureStack
- Each customer would like to have it's own custom domain for its applications, and not use the *.appservice.local.azurestack.external or…56 votesThis is still on our backlog for review, this did not make it into update 2. We will continue to review this for Azure App Service on Azure Stack.
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With the release of Azure App Service on Linux, we are looking in supporting Golang as a built-in runtime stack. In the meanwhile you can create a custom container that supports Go.
A link of how to use a custom docker container with Web App for Containers:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/containers/quickstart-custom-docker-imageThanks,
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Allow FrontDoor CNAME for App Service Managed Certificate validation
When creating an App Service Managed Certificate, it should allow validation if the CNAME is pointing to a FrontDoor with the same domain (or the FrontDoor's backend is the same Web App).
Currently it gives the error "Hostname not eligible for App Service Managed Certificates creation" since the CNAME is not directly pointing to the web app.
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Make WEBSITE_ADD_SITENAME_BINDINGS_IN_APPHOST_CONFIG to 1 by default or add warning
We have been hit by hard restarts on web apps because we have not set the WEBSITEADDSITENAMEBINDINGSINAPPHOSTCONFIG to 1. It would be a more sane default to have it set to 1 by default, and then turned off by users that need WCF support OR have some sort of warning / checkbox or increased visbility in the portal.
The simultaneous restart of all (in our case) 10 servers in a datasenter has caused outage of our services, and we would imagine others experience the same issue. I doubt many assume that all servers in…
54 votesThank you for the suggestion, we are investigating the issue.
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Better inform users of when their App Service Certificates are about to expire or have not auto renewed (7 days?)
This week another of our customer's sites went down due to an Azure App Service certificate expiring without us being notified of its pending expiry - we mark all App Service Certificates to Auto Renew and some of them do infact renew and rebind without our intervention, others certificates have got stuck on the domain validation phase (which we validated 1st time we bought the certificate ofcourse) and the latest certificate is now expired and the Manual Renew button is disabled as it seems to think its outside the 60 day renewal window.
A simple email to us (we receive…
49 votesWe are currently investigating options on improving renewal of certs and notifying customers.
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Application Security Groups (ASG) support for App Service Environments (ASE)
As stated in the comments section of this page https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/applicationsecuritygroups/
"It's on the roadmap, all services integrated with VNet like ASE and SQL MI will be part of ASGs groups, as of today the scope doesn't cover subnets for those services, we are exploring options in the near future."49 votesThank you for the feedback. Our team will evaluate this request and consider it for the future. Please continue to provide feedback/vote on this issue if it is pertinent to your Azure deployment.
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A method to allow folks to access the FTP transfer logs when ftp is used to deploy code changes to their azure web apps.
Allow site admins to access the ftp transfer logs when ftp is the selected method used to make web site deployment updates. We use ftp to allow site updates, and we've had an incident where having access to those logs would be very helpful.
43 votesWe’re looking into to see what is currently supported here.
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Oded -
Allow AAD multi-tenant Apps using App Service Authentication and Authorization
Allow Azure Active Directory (AAD) multi-tenant Apps using App Service Authentication and Authorization.
After on-boarding a tenant with a multi tenant AAD App (Client), the tenant is not able to login to protected Web/Api Apps on App Services.
The ClientId used is the same in AAD Multitenant App.
The STS url is/can only be configured for the App/Client primary tenant GUID.There are no options to enable-multi tenant STS on App Service Authentication and authorization interface.
42 votesLeaving this under review for now to see if there is more user support for development.
Thanks,
Oded -
Disaster Recovery for Azure WebApp
Currently, we have to deploy the Azure WebApp twice, one in West Europe and other in North Europe to support Disaster Recovery.
It means that we need to update the both WebApps if we want to deploy new artifacts in WebApp.
It is very difficult to sync artifacts in both WebApps.
It would be great if Azure provides the RA-GRS(Read-access geo-redundant storage) feature for WebApp like Azure SQL Database.
With this feature the synching of artifacts between both WebApps done by RA-GRS feature.
So we will not deploy the new artifacts in both web app, when we deploy the artifacts…41 votesThanks fort the feature request! We have work on the backlog for disaster recovery, but we don’t have a timeline to share at the moment.
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Oded -
Enable application logging in ILB ASE
Currently there is no way to access our applications trace logs in an ILB ASE environment. I understand the Log Stream button is greyed out in the portal, but even using Kudu, FTP, blob, or streaming in VS, none of these are working in ILB ASE, and support tells us this is a known issue. This is a huge downside for us because we depend on our customized application log messages for troubleshooting.
33 votesThanks for the request. This is under review and we will discuss internally how to support.
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Oded -
PowerShell and CLI support for the management of App Service Environments
Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI commands to support the management of an App Service Environments (at least v2). Hopefully this could include the ability to get management IP information, do scaling, and if it is an ILB ASE update the ILB Certificate.
33 votesCLI and Poweshell for scaling is available in ASE v2 through the same App Service commands.
We are expanding CLI and PowerShell support more down the road.
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Oded -
Option to hide/anonymize IPs in webserver logs to be GDPR compliant
It would be very helpfull if there would be an option to hide/anonymize IPs in webapps webserver logs. Right now you have to disable webserver logs completely to be GDPR compliant which might be not best practice.
33 votesHi all,
Thank you for the feedback and recommendations on this important topic!
We will look at adding this to our feature roadmap though we don’t have any timing to share right now.
For additional guidance please refer to “Azure Data Subject Request GDPR Documentation” under the Service Trust Portal: https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/ViewPage/GDPRDSR. Specifically read through, Part 1 – Step 5, which discusses the removal of personal data and timing in which you can leverage retention period settings for the logs.
Thanks,
Oded -
Provide access to HTTPERR logs
Currently, enabling "Web Server Logging" appears to archive only the W3C request logs. The HTTPERR logs are the only way to see any requests that failed or were rejected by the server due to TCP timeouts, idle connections, filled request queues, and similar circumstances.
32 votesJust an update that we still have this on our backlog. If it gains more user support, we will look to prioritize this and add the view to our internal support center.
Thanks,
Oded -
Auto-scale up and down not just out, for web apps
Hi
Can you expand the auto-scaling feature to include up and down scaling as well as in / out?
so for example, scale the web app up a tier in peak and down a tier i off hours. Or something to that effect.
Thanks
31 votesThis is an interesting idea, though not feasible at the moment. We will leave this on the roadmap to review later on.
Thanks,
Oded -
[Linux] Allow remote debugging of .NET core apps hosted by linux app services
It is currently not possible to remote debug .NET core applications running on Azure Linux App Services. Please consider to add remote debugging to the feature list of Linux App Services.
30 votesThanks for suggesting that, we are looking into a number of ways to have that support. Unfortunately we don’t have a timeline for introducing such capability.
Ahmed
App Service Team -
Add feedback on the Portal on Automatic Swaps
When we configure a staging slot with Continuous Deployment and Auto-Swap we need some sort of visual feedback to know when the swap was done. Right now what we see is that the Active Deployment of the staging slot changes to the previous deploy checkpoint and that's how we know it swapped.
It would be great if on the production slot we could get at least some sort of message saying the current Active Deployment that was swapped or at least some sort of visual aid.26 votesThank you Matias, we are reviewing this idea.
Daria, App Service
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Limit number of accepted client certificates when doing mutual TLS
I want to be able to control the trusted issuers list sent to the web browser so that list of allowed certificates can be filtered in the browser. This was possible in IIS and with Azure Cloud Service I believe but how can we do it in a Azure web app?
What I basically want to do is set the content of the certificate_authorities field in CertificateRequest sent by the server to the browser in the TLS handshake as stated in RFC5246.
25 votesThanks for the request. We’ll be taking a look.
Oded
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Strict-Transport-Security
With the ability now to force HTTPS, it would be nice if Strict-Transport-Security HTTP Header should also be set and knock another finding off of the security report:
Details on The Header:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Strict-Transport-Security25 votesWe’ll be taking a look.
Thanks,
Oded -
Version data for deployed slot
I'm using ARM template to deploy a new slot to an existing webapp, the problem is that there is no way of seeing or passing the version of the build that the slot has.
It would be really useful to have a "Version" -field in the portal where I can pass the version data of the build so that you could easily see which slot has which build version.
24 votesThanks for the feedback, we are investigating this feature request. We cannot share an ETA at this time.
Thanks,
Jason -
Add a Remove-AzureRmWebAppCertificate cmdlet
There is no PowerShell cmdlet for Remove-AzureRmWebAppCertificate. This would be really useful to enable cleanup of old certificates that are no longer used.
(Note: I'm aware that using Remove-AzureRmWebAppSSLBinding will clean up a certificate if it's not referenced anymore. However, in production applications we don't want to use that cmdlet when updating an SSL certificate - we instead use New-AzureRmWebAppSSLBinding to overwrite the existing binding to the new certificate. The New-AzureRmWebAppSSLBinding cmdlet doesn't clean up the unused old certificate.)
22 votesThanks for your suggestion, we will review this suggestion.
Ahmed
App Service Team
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