VM Status and PowerState are not always reported correctly. Often a VM which has been running for hours or days will report Status=RoleStateUnkown or PowerState=Starting (even though it is clearly Started).

Please work to make this reporting more accurate. Thank you!

Remove the dependency to have the virtual machine unique ID inside XML configuration file. To automate the install/config of a hundred VMs you would need to customize a hundred XML files. See attached document fo further explanation

When deploying the image of SQL Server 2016 with the portal in Japanese language setting and setting automatic backup, the deployment parameter is set to Japanese and an error occurs at the time of expansion.

If you set the portal language setting to English, the correct parameters are set and you can deploy.

backupScheduleType : 手動 → Manual
fullBackupFrequency: 週単位 → Weekly

Even in languages other than English, I would like you to pass the correct parameters at deployment time.

Available Data Disk is showing incorrect number during VM creation size selection versus documented data disk availabilities.

When I create a Linux VM with PS, whith a migrated vhd between suscriptions, the machine is created correctly but:
1) Name of the Machine don't appear in 'General Information'
2) Connect button is in grey (inactive)
Machine is working ok, and we can connect to it with putty, but these two elements are not ok.

Twice today I have tried to use the SharePoint 2013 Non-HA Template and it has failed both times. Once when it was trying to create the domain controller and the second time when it was trying to create the SQL Server.

Can this template be fixed ?

Can't reset ssh key and password for virtual machine.
Similar problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31004642/azure-failed-to-reset-the-password-ssh-key-for-virtual-machine

When creating a new VM from the portal, an admin user name greater than 14 characters can be created, but it is not valid. The result was I could not remote into the VM as the user credentials were rejected. It wasn't until I went and tried to reset the password did I receive the validation error that the username I had selected was too long. I had to delete the VM and recreate it with a shorter username before I could RDP into the new Virtual Machine.

When you have the following configuration:

1 HA Group
1 Machine with Standard public Sku
N number of machines with no public IP assigned.

The machines with no public IP cannot go to the internet. MS support tell me this is a feature.

This works differently to the following:

1 HA Group
1 Machine with BASIC public Sku
N number of machines with no public IP assigned.

All of the machines in this group can go outbound to the internet.

The Set-AzureRmVMBootDiagnostics PowerShell cmdlet returns without an error, however, the boot diagnostics for a VM does not appear to change.

Also, the documentation for the Set-AzureRmVMBootDiagnostics cmdlet specifies the ResourceGroupName is the resource group of the VM, however, the cmdlet only works when the resource group of the storage account is used.

management portal is not showing the updated state

When you have created a VM and you for some reason deleted it but want to recreate it on later stage (in my case immediately) the tile on the dashboard shows "Deleted" and below "Running. You cannot click on the tile at that moment. Not sure what happens yet when you wait a bit longer before recreating the VM, but in my case I noticed this bug when doing it immediately due to an error in building it.

I can no longer connect to my virtual machine using ms rdp on my android tablet. Not such a good feature.

Unbelievable how the Azure VMs are running slow