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Allow e-mail unsubscribe
I have received three e-mails in one day from azure. One about downtime (I have no services right now), and two advertising features. None of these e-mails have unsubscribe buttons, and I cannot find a way to suppress them in the account page. All contact checkboxes are un-checked.
710 votesThank you everyone for your feedback. The email in question is called "Product and service updates” that is sent every two weeks. While it does not currently have an unsubscribe link, the team is
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Datacenter in Russia
In Russia we have law act about storing some sensitive data(such as personal information , IPR and others) in Russia located Data Centers only.
Does any plans to support it ? Does any plans to create Russia Region in Azure Portal for some services such as WebSites, CDN, Databases e.t.c ?356 votesThanks for the suggestion. We’re reviewing it.
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Allow easy donation of unused CPU cycles to cancer research, Folding@home, etc.
I would like to easily 'donate' my unused CPU cycles towards a good cause, such as cancer research within the Folding@home project.
Ideally this setting would be incorporated into the config of my worker roles, or within the Windows Azure portal.
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Web App should use private IP in a VNet with Service Endpoints
Remove the limitation that prevents us from using Web Apps with Service Endpoints to limit access to Azure SQL database.
Limitation is described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-vnet-service-endpoint-rule-overview?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-network%2ftoc.json#limitations
"•A Web App can be mapped to a private IP in a VNet/subnet. Even if service endpoints are turned ON from the given VNet/subnet, connections from the Web App to the server will have an Azure public IP source, not a VNet/subnet source. To enable connectivity from a Web App to a server that has VNet firewall rules, you must Allow all Azure services on the server."239 votes -
Google App Engine is the best in terms of free tier for developers. I am sure Microsoft can afford it but they don't. That is too bad.
Google App Engine is the best in terms of free tier for developers. I am sure Microsoft can afford it but they don't. That is too bad. They will likely lose new developers to google.
238 votesThanks for the feedback.
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Set an AzureAD account to expire on a specified date
Just like in active directory allow accounts to be set to expire on a specified date. Our company policy is to set network accounts for non-employees (consultants, contractors, temporary employees, interns) to expire at a certain interval after they are created. We want the same functionality within Office 365.
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Provide a local emulator for Azure Event Hubs
When developing solutions for Azure, it is very useful to have a local development experience. This is good for development, integration tests, and validation of approaches. When using Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, or Service Fabric, there is a very good local emulator story. But for Event Hubs, there is no local emulator story, so all development and integration testing needs to use the real thing, which causes a number of issues. For example, integration tests now need to provision an isolated Event Hub, and then ensure that it gets torn down.
It would be much better if we had a…
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add "Resource Group" and "Tags" to CSP reconcilation
Add "Resource Group" and "Tags" columns to CSP usage based reconciliation file to help CSP partner divide bill to customer by department basis. At the moment only way is to do with different subscriptions and this causes management + admin overhead
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allow setting spending limit on any account type
I cannot afford to have a runaway process or a mistake in the Azure portal to generate a huge bill for me.
Many of the special offers that give Azure credits come with a spending limit of $0.00 such that when your credit is used up, your account is temporarily disabled until your credits are refreshed.
However, you can only remove the spending limit. You cannot change it to a higher level.
Also, Pay as you Go accounts cannot have a spending limit either.
It would be extremely useful to be able to set a spending limit on Pay as…
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Why no datacenters in Middle East and Africa?
Hi Microsoft,
I can’t help thinking that Microsoft is pursuing some sort of imperialist western agenda with the deployment of its worldwide Azure Datacenters! As an independent software developer based here in Dubai with clients right across Africa, The Middle East and the Sub-continent we currently have the choice of hosting in Western Europe (Amsterdam) which is between 6500km and 8000km away from our clients, or South East Asia (Singapore) 5000 to 11000kms away.
Guys it is time to realize that there is 2/5's of the world’s population nearby - let’s see something proactive in terms of datacenter deployment, and…168 votesMicrosoft is expanding on its existing investments in Africa by delivering Microsoft Cloud Services including Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 directly from Datacenters located in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa. Initial availability is expected in 2018.
Stay tuned for more updates here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/?v=17.14
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Increase listener limit for Application Gateway
Application gateway has a very low listener limit (20 listeners / certificates). This severely limits it's usefulness for multi-tenant/domain applications where a web farm / service hosts many endpoints. IIS itself has no such small limit, but due to constraints on certificate deployment in cloud services, Application Gateway is the only clear path to wide scale SNI based SSL hosting. With it's low limit, it does not come close to meeting our use case. I would suggest the limit be removed or set to a very high limit like 10k+ so many certificates could be bound to host many different…
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We keep updating out pricing rates and models to better align with our customers business needs.
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Increase the ARM default Core Quota per region
[ENG] Please increase the default limit for VMs/Cores in Azure Resource Manager.
The current ARM default Core/VM limit per region for an Azure in Open and even some Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions is only 10-20. This is not enough at all to deploy a few VMs, and it prevents customers from expanding their service towards rapid business growth and urgent requirement. More flexibility and convenience should be provided as default.
[Japanese] Azure リソースマネージャの仮想マシン／コア数の既定上限値引き上げ依頼
Azure in Open や従量課金プランのサブスクリプションについて、現在のAzure リソースマネージャの仮想マシン／コア数の既定上限値は、10 から 20 程度です。
この既定上限値では、十分な仮想マシンを作成することができず、お客様の大切なビジネスの急成長や必要性に対応することができません。
既定上限値が緩和され、柔軟に便利に利用できるよう改善よろしくお願いいたします。127 votes -
Capability to capture ARM VM using portal
There is an easy way to capture classic VM using Azure portal.
The ask is to provide the capture feature for ARM image, in new portal.
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Recovery Services Azure to Azure between different regions
Hello ! At this moment we can fail over in "Azure to Azure" model only between region's locations. For example if source resource group is located in West Europe we cannot use USA as a target location. Six months ago or more there was a disaster fail of a whole region - unfortunately, I don't remember what was it. However, you will find this event in Azure event logs on the portal. I kindly ask Azure backend team - would you be so kind modify "Azure to Azure" mode and include different regions for target and resource groups please ?…
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Allow provisioned VM pricing to be altered to add software licensing without reprovisioning
As an Azure VM user/administrator, I would like to be able to take an existing VM priced at one rate, and "upgrade" the pricing to include licensing for products installed after provisioning. I would like this to provide flexibility (e.g., if I want to install SQL Server on a Windows priced VM, without losing install/configuration work already undertaken on that VM and without independently licensing SQL; or if I want to add BizTalk to a Win/SQL-priced VM). I would also like this to allow simplified compliance (e.g., a Windows-priced VM is found to have SQL Server installed after provisioning), to…
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Ability to use KeyVault in Logic Apps
It would be great to be able to access KeyVault secrets and keys within a Logic App action. This way it would be easy to provide secured authentication details while calling 3rd party services from a logic app.
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ip restrict access to visual studio online
Our company houses our source code in Visual Studio Online. Currently a developer with an account can log in from home and download our entire code base which is basically our intellectual property - not good if they are about to resign and go to a competitor.
My suggestion is to allow IP restrictions on downloading code/workspaces. The rest of the site should be accessible from any IP, but users would be forced to VPN into the office to access the source code.105 votes -
Support to TripleDES and DUKPT on KeyVault
In Payment Industry, cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt PIN from credit/debit cards are TripleDES (sometimes with DUKPT) based. Currently, KeyVault only support RSA keys.
Please add support to it.
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