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Better remote managability
Setting up remote Management (e.g. console or remote Desktop Connection) for tenant portals is very tricky at the moment.
Struggling selving errors, weak documentation (explanations), setting up is not straight forward, so please provide detailed installation instruction.11 votes -
Sort list and filter available VHD(X) and ISO files in library
When a tenant selects to add a ISO or a disk, all the items are shown from the read only lib unsorted. The possibility add sorting and prefilter (for instance based on tags) would enhance the tenant experience and hide unwanted files.
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Allow customers to create Runbook (Hosters)
Allow customers create their own Runbook in WAP
10 votesThanks for the feedback. I think this is the same request as this: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/255259-azure-pack/suggestions/6036496-runbook-as-a-service
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Allow custom links in Tenant Portal
Much like ADFS does, support adding custom links at the top of the tentant portal (ex: "back to my account").
10 votesThank you for the suggestion!
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Allow better customization of the standalone or virtual wizard
When asking users to provide input for deploying VMs, not all options are "enforceable. Admin password, product key etc. always get's prompted.
Although this might work great in the Service Provider space, enterprise must be able to fully customize the "input experience" to enforce standards and ensure manageability.
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VM Role (external) validation hooks
Parameter validation options are very limited and could be expanded with (external) script hooks.
Example:
An Enterprise utilizes Azure Pack internally. All VM roles must join the same Active Directory domain. During VM role deployment a computer name is provided by the user. There is no way to check against Active Directory if this computer name is already in use. Worst case scenario, the user enters a name of a server already in use and highjacks the trust relationship with the new VM role breaking service of the “old” server. Many other scenarios could be thought of. It would be…9 votes -
Enterprise Subscriptions Co-Administrator Web Sites Owner
I started off creating subscriptions for teams to use to organize our application environments across all development teams. Then I assigned co-administrator rights to these subscriptions. However when other team members add websites it puts me as the owner rather then the co-administrator who actually created the site. Could we get another field for "Created By" and "Subscription Name"?
9 votesThanks for the suggestion. We will look into adding these fields.
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Add CTRL-ALT-END to the Console Connect login screen
Today it is not obvious to a tenant how to log on to a VM from the Console Connect screen. There is a small menu in the Console Connect screen that could be used to trigger CTRL-ALT-END.
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VPN details or script
Let tenants download VPN config script via the portal, like in Microsoft Azure. Or at least supply the details needed to setup the connection.
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Update the Azure Pack for Windows to use new UI
The portal preview should also have an accompanied update for the Azure Pack for windows.
9 votesThis is something we’ll look into doing!
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Allow partners to offer azure pack customers resources from their partner bought azure subscriptions
Similar to Marc van Eijk suggestion but extended to allow partners to use their enterprise azure agreement and offer their azure pack customers resources based on transparent offerings and pricing options
9 votesThis is a great suggestion, thank you. We are reviewing and appreciate any further details regarding how you would like this to work in WAP.
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Set NIC bandwidth settings (QOS weight / classification) with VM Role
The VM Role currently does not allow you to assign a classification (bandwidth weight) to the NIC)
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Allow hierarchical structure of folders for holding runbooks
Make it possible to create folders and nested folders within the automation section of the admin portal. Allow runbooks to be created and moved to folders that the admin has created.
e.g. a 'samples' folder for all the pre-installed sample runbooks...... ;-)
7 votesThanks for the feedback. We will look into this. In the meantime, you can use tags to help organize your runbooks.
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The ability to create vm’s without OS
For disaster recovery purpose
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Add Mobile Services to Azure Pack
I would really like to see Azure Mobile Services ported over to Azure Pack with an ASP.NET WEB API backend.
7 votesThanks for the suggestion!
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Point to Site support for Virtual Networks with client configuration option in WAP
Allow a tenant to interact with his virtual machines running on a virtual network by providing point to site connectivity. The tenant should be able to configure his client through the tenant site.
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Simplify deployment of Azure pack into one unified deployment package
Deploying Azure Pack can be combersome using the current installation process. It requires multiple VMs or servers, SQL, pieces of Orchestrator, and so on. I recommend simplifying the deployment process of WAP.
6 votesThank you for this valuable feedback!
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Streamline integration of DSC/Puppet/Chef into service offerings.
It would be great to make it where your different offerings are all based off the same vm deployment, but are simply updating each vm to get the proper policy from an enterprise configuration management platform such as DSC/Puppet/Chef. Many orgs aren't worried about provisioning speed, but long term maintainability.
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Add JSON as SMA asset variable
Could it be possible to add JSON as possible asset for SMA variables. At the moment we can use string on single line which is limited to 512 characters.
In my case I have large configuration definition which I want to parse, took some parameters and make modifications.
6 votesThanks for the feedback! We can look into adding json variable support (may be a generic object variable). How many characters are you looking to support in your json variable?
Also, you can use the Set-AutomationVariable activity from within your runbook to create variables larger than 512 characters. The database actually doesn’t limit this, but the API does. Using the “set” activity in the runbook gets around this limit.
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Runbook publish order should be independent of parent/child order
In a situation where there's a parent and child runbook, and the parent runbook is uploaded first using Either the WAP gui or PowerShell (Import-SmaRunbook/Publish-SmaRunbook), the parent runbook is unable to "see" the child runbook even after the child runbooks is uploaded/published.
The required workaround is to republish the parent runbook, which performs some kind of "rescanning" of the available runbooks. In complex environments with lots of runbooks depending on others, this can be very time-consuming to do.
6 votes
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