When customizing the dashboard, if small (1x1) icons are used for virtual machines, then no status information is visible. Perhaps color (red vs green) or a red x when the vm is stopped can indicate the status of each machine at a quick glance. This would allow for much more efficient use of space on the custom dashboard without sacrificing information.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

When someone is using Standard D VMs, it has 50 ,100 , 200 GBs +++ of cache SSD attached with it which seems to be volatile in nature and there is a text file placed in that disk , pre-notification of this will notify users about possible data-loss and clear there confusion about cache disk and data disk .

The new portal does not allow to easily swap between VM settings. Example compare end point settings. The old portal was good on that.

When creating multiple VM's, it a waste of time waiting for the 1st vm to finish creating before starting to configure the next. Could you give us the option to save "VM create" jobs that can run sequentially. so for example I create 10 vm's all at once. In the background, the vm's get created sequentially?
New site looks really cool. Thanks
Adam

your POS site doesnt create a VM, doesnt give any ******* errors...how can you run a site like this

It will not let me add a website...it says "url already taken" no matter what domain i put in

Unable to create or deploy VMs from the Marketplace. It keeps asking me to sign up for an Azure Subscription (which I already have). No such issues from "old" portal..