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  1. Better Documentation

    43 votes
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    under review  ·  3 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  2. Manage AzurePack from VisualStudio Server Explorer (Like Azure)

    To be able to manage individual services in Azure Pack via the Server Explorer in Visual Studio just as if it was like the public Azure solution.

    37 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  3. Clarify error messages

    Debugging Azure Pack services can be a huge pain because error messages are:

    1: top level messages
    2: global stack traces

    If errors are *more specific it would be easier to debug and would save me a lot of time on the azurepack forums

    16 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Rupi Sureshkumar responded

    This is very helpful feedback, we definitely want you to have as seamless experience as possible when using Azure Pack. Could you provide some examples of any error messages that were particularly cryptic or hard to debug for you?

  4. 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 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  5. Improve scaling of Azure Pack

    Allow Azure pack to manage more resources across multiple datacenters. Having multiple Azure Pack deployments breaks the cloud paradigm.

    4 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  6. Allow the option to pick certificates and dns names for portal urls during installation instead of having to do it afterwards.

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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  7. Friendly Logging in the WAP UI

    Please update the UI for more friendly logging. Would be great to have the following: A more concise view, similar to Windows server event log UI with filters, etc. but within the WAP UI. A CSV(etc.) export function would be helpful (with filters applied of course). Holistic, segmented logging, i.e. see multiple components in the WAP logging UI, color-code the different component source providers and have the ability to set the refresh and filters. Maybe allowing an extension to write third-party log info into the UI from the application via system center or windows server nodes. As more IT Pros…

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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Rupi Sureshkumar responded

    Thanks for the feedback! We are working to improve how we log and present information to the user. These suggestions are helpful and we would like to hear more if you have them!

  8. Provide load balancing information during installation/configuration

    Provide load balancing information during installation/configuration

    Currently, the only way to configure load balancing of components with an external load balancer in Azure Pack is to use Powershell only after WAP installation and configuration. It would be great to specify FQDNs and URI's during the config phase and would be even greater to be able to specify ports.

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    0 comments  ·  Setup and Configuration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  Rupi Sureshkumar responded

    Thank you for the suggestion. We will look into improving the configuration experience for WAP and adding these options.

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