When create a new CentOS VM,
if there is a default item to the endpoints.

I want you to display the default items.
ex) SSH

Is displayed in the old portal.

Because it does not displayed, I was fail trying to register the SSH.

More flexibility with Client OS - Virtual Machines.

Can we get a bit more flexibility with testing the client OS on Azure. Since Microsoft will charge are on a per use basis it would be great if they could extend the use of Windows 8/8.1 VM's to everybody. (So we don't have to go the large
expense of having a MSDN subscription).

Thanks,

Ward

Local Networks are incorrectly shown in the preview portal.

Make it known that these VHD's come with spyware and are not "free" but are taking your info to the 3rd party companies that publish them- it would be nice if MS kept uptodate distros so you don't have to VMDK to VHD then upload them to your blob/cloud so you can use them- all these precompiled things have privacy issues that you would never agree to if read. pls. fix this.

I would like to be able to monitor and setup notifications for problems such as ram usage on virtual machines.

At present, you can create a full snapshot of a Hyper-V VM, but not an azure VM, The current suggested mechanism (setup out at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn722422.aspx) means you take the VM down, create a disk snapshot,. This can work but means downtime, What I'd like to see is a simple New-AzureVMSnapShot cmdlet, along with a Restore-AzureVMFromSnapshot. And of course, have the functiond available in the Portal too!

I would be interested in moving an existing GreatPlains server with eConnect to AZURE

It would be super great if Azure offered a solution for on-premise IT management solution. Kaseya enables management and automation of all of IT from a single console, including remote control, patch management, policy management, discovery, audit and inventory of IT assets, monitoring, ticketing, service desk, software delivery, endpoint security, backup, and more.

Please let there be a way to add port ranges.

Its going to take me days to open up UDP ports 8000 to 8999 one port at a time.

Capture button is no longer visible on menu for Virtual Machines. I have no way of adding a VM to the gallery.

With the old portal, I click on any database, then Dashboard, then "Manage Allowed IP addresses". I gave up trying to find this functionality on the Preview portal.

Consider a set of custom attributes a Customer can maintain on a Virtual Machine object in Azure.
Helpful for Automation, custom reporting, etc.
Should be easy to implement, already known in VMM and would enable Migration Scenarios.

Previously when creating a new VM the public port was set as Auto for the RDP and PowerShell ports -- now they are both(public and private) the same Default ports: 3389 and 5986 -- (mainly when using the preview portal in creating the VMs). Can we please have this reverted back to the random generated public port so that the VMs are more secure?

Using the new portal, I am unable to connect to virtual machine through the downloaded rdf file. The dialog pops up without the virtual machine's urls. I cannot connect.

Given that I know my Virtual Machine's ResourceGuid, how can I find out the ResourceGuids of Storage, Network & Data Management components associated with that specific VM ?

This is essential to identify the total cost of a specific VM from the downloaded usage statistics CSV file.

Usage details has resource wise metrics with unique ResourceGuid and we need a way to find out the id's of resources associated with a particular VM.

Name ResourceGuid
Unit Consumed
"Virtual Machines" "1b4d8861-8cbc-40c8-88f9-e1b78509c3be"
"GB" 0.000158
"Networking" "9995d93a-7d35-4d3f-9c69-7a7fea447ef4"
"Hours" 11.100002
"Data Management" "964c283a-83a3-4dd4-8baf-59511998fe8b"
"10,000s" 6.8899
"Storage" "0e9d0c9b-ab6d-4312-9c7e-3794e22af9c4"
"GB" 0.436496

SystemCenterAdvisor use to display all SQL server policies it evaluates irrespective of i register server or not. with current model we can't see any policies inside the SQL Intelligent Pack... is it possible to expose them?

There is no Test framework today to test the IAAS hosting. All the automation testing is difficult when handling multiple subscriptions.
Microsoft should release a framework for this

There is no Test framework today to test the IAAS hosting. All the automation testing is difficult when handling multiple subscriptions.
Microsoft should release a framework for this

When I try to provision an VM, the protal shows progress as 'provisioning'. But then I see some error on the notification bar at the bottom, "Windows Azure is currently performing an operation with x-ms-requestid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on this deployment that requires exclusive access". It is EXTREMELY annoying. And apparently there is no solution to it except waiting for 3-8 hours.

Configuring virtual networks in the current portal is easy and straight forward especially with the help of the CIDR (ADDRESS COUNT). This is no longer available in the PREVIEW portal and will be a great addition for individual users and small businesses who are not used to the CIDR application of IP addressing or non-networking professionals.