Azure Resource Manager

How can we improve the Azure Resource Manager?

You've used all your votes and won't be able to post a new idea, but you can still search and comment on existing ideas.

There are two ways to get more votes:

When an admin closes an idea you've voted on, you'll get your votes back from that idea.
You can remove your votes from an open idea you support.
To see ideas you have already voted on, select the "My feedback" filter and select "My open ideas".

Enter your idea

(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

Rename Resource Groups

Need the ability to rename resource groups either via PowerShell or the new portal.
3,255 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
145 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

unplanned · AdminAzure portal team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

At this point our recommendation is to move resources into a new Resource Group with the new name.
easy way to change datacenter

It will be nice a feature that allow move services created in windows azure from one Datacenter to another.

Sample: Move from West US to North Europe.
598 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
unplanned · 6 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →
Add support for YAML Deployment Templates

Please add support for YAML / jinja2 templates. This will allow full integration with Ansible and many other Automation Providers.
480 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
17 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

unplanned · AdminGovernance Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

While this is something we do not have planned in the short term. You can use community tools such as this: https://github.com/devkimchi/ARM-Templates-in-YAML
Add ability to rename services

It would be useful to be able to rename services on occasion. If these are tied to other services or components (eg., DNS entry), then perhaps the ability to migrate could be added. I know there's another vote to rename resource groups, however I'd like to see this possible for anything.
317 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
unplanned · 12 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →
Allow dots or dashes in service names...

Each Azure service has different restrictions on allowed characters in service name, max length, etc.

Cloud services, SQL Database, Traffic Manager, Search, etc. allows dashes in service name. Storage, for example, doesn't allow dashes in service names. Storage, for example, doesn't allow dashes in service name.

Redis allows very limited (six to twenty) chars, with no dashes or dots.

#1
Please use uniform restrictions on length and allowed char restrictions on all service names.

#2
Allow DASHEs (better yet DOTs) in service names.

As our azure foot print grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult to follow any naming convention that is readable across multiple regions/environments/services.

Each Azure service has different restrictions on allowed characters in service name, max length, etc.

Cloud services, SQL Database, Traffic Manager, Search, etc. allows dashes in service name. Storage, for example, doesn't allow dashes in service names. Storage, for example, doesn't allow dashes in service name.

Redis allows very limited (six to twenty) chars, with no dashes or dots.

#1
Please use uniform restrictions on length and allowed char restrictions on all service names.

#2
Allow DASHEs (better yet DOTs) in service names.

As our azure foot print grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult to follow any naming convention that…
114 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
unplanned · 1 comment · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →
Rename any Azure object and ability to have different name and DNS name

The main idea is an option to rename any Azure object (rename VM, Sql DB ...) into ANY desired name at ANY time, unique only per user, not globally. If dns name is already used a random one should be given or asked user to input a new one.

It would greatly help organizing Azure object.
78 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
unplanned · 0 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →
Optional parameters in ARM templates

It would be great if we could define some ARM template parameters as optional or not required.
77 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
5 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

unplanned · AdminGovernance Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

You can make it optional to provide a value for a param, by using a defaultValue and in some cases, just make the value “empty”. For example:

“defaultValue”: ""

If you have scenarios where this isn’t working for you feel free to email…
Recycle bin for accidentally deleted azure resources

It would good if we could have ability to restore accidentally deleted resources from Azure Portal. Feature like recycle bin could really help user to restore accidentally deleted resources from azure.
67 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
unplanned · 4 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →
Reset account

I want to have ability to reset account
35 votes
Vote

Sign in
prestine

Your name

Your email address
Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

You have left! (?) (thinking…)
4 comments · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Delete… · Admin →

unplanned · AdminGovernance Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

Thank you for taking the time to vote for this item. This item is currently no planned. You could use this PowerShell script to accomplish this for most resources: http://www.frankysnotes.com/2016/12/need-to-nuke-azure-subscription.html

Don't see your idea?

Your name

Your email address

Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

Signed in as (Sign out)