Microsoft Windows Azure on UserVoice

Create a "beta" environment for .NET 4.0 tests and evaluation. [updated]

2012-02-03T19:07:15-08:00

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Ability to force the CDN to refresh a specific blob from Azure Blob Storage [updated]

2012-02-03T08:40:16-08:00

A new API to send a request to the CDN so that it invalidates an previously cached blob and forces a refetch from Azure Blob Storage. This would happen regardless of the original Cache Control header set for the blob.

MAnders said:

This feature request needs to be rephrased: Implement an API which permits purging items from the cache.

I bet if the feature name was changed, you'd suddenly get LOTS AND LOTS of votes for this!

Possibility to change subscription filter rules

2012-02-03T01:59:34-08:00

Henrik Olsson suggested:
To have a dynamic service bus, it must be possible to change subscription filter rules. Today, it seems that you have to delete the filter and create a new one.

Enable affinity groups to support inclusion of SQL Azure servers

2012-02-03T01:53:30-08:00

Telerik Sitefinity Development Team suggested:
Currently affinity groups support grouping only hosted services and storage accounts. The location of the database server is also critical for applications that rely on database performance and enabling affinity groups to include database servers is one way to solve this issue. As of 2011 the finest granularity that is allowed is to specify the same region, which still may create your database server in a datacenter hundreds of kilometers away and in combination with SQL Azure throttling spoil the overall performance of the application.

Provide a Service Bus emulator on a local computer [updated]

2012-02-03T00:35:49-08:00

Providing a Service Bus emulator on a local computer will reduce development costs.

Armen said:

Unlike Windows Azure Starage Queue there is no local emulator for the Service Bus Queue.

Provide a Service Bus emulator on a local computer

2012-02-03T00:33:42-08:00

Armen suggested:
Providing a Service Bus emulator on a local computer will reduce development costs.

Create guidance packages for common supported scenario's. So it's very easy to get started.

2012-02-02T00:20:07-08:00

Patrick suggested:
Create guidance packages for common supported scenario's. It should be very easy to get started. It should be not more complicated than : 1. Set your connection string to Azure, 2. point to an XSD and presto there is your webservice. 3. Want to store received requests in a table, just add that checkbox. 4. Want processing on that table, just cjeck that checkbox..... I could go on for a while. Having guidance will lower complexity, and give everyone a easy trouble free start. That is always a good thing.

Provide ServiceBus tunneling [updated]

2012-02-01T21:40:21-08:00

ServiceBus requires access to too many addresses and ports when establishing a connection from a published service. You should have 1 or 2 at the most ports that ServiceBus uses and everything gets tunneled through that. e.g. calls to: - accesscontrol - watchdog - sb-<servicename>... - etc. Would make configuration MUCH simpler. Imagine just opening a couple of ports to a defined IP range, rather than 6 ports to 16 different IP segments - just for one DC.

Mick Badran said:

This would make firewall configuration easy. Imagine that.

Provide ServiceBus tunneling

2012-02-01T21:39:46-08:00

Mick Badran suggested:
ServiceBus requires access to too many addresses and ports when establishing a connection from a published service. You should have 1 or 2 at the most ports that ServiceBus uses and everything gets tunneled through that. e.g. calls to: - accesscontrol - watchdog - sb-<servicename>... - etc. Would make configuration MUCH simpler. Imagine just opening a couple of ports to a defined IP range, rather than 6 ports to 16 different IP segments - just for one DC.

Azure Datacenters IP Ranges Listed

2012-02-01T21:34:27-08:00

Mick Badran suggested:
It would be great to have a CURRENT list of IP Ranges allocated to each Azure Datacenter. The page should be on the Management Portal somewhere, e.g. under "Windows Azure Service Status: Running" "Azure Current IP Ranges:...." Being on an endorsed MS page would ease Client's concerns about punching holes to not recognised IP Addresses.

Billing & Usage API [updated]

2012-02-01T08:00:58-08:00

Create a complete billing and usage API so that we can get our usage and cost data throught a simple .NET API call.

Chris said:

Billing and Usage API, especially bandwidth per instance would be very good. I can get this from my account in billing as an usage details csv, but it would be great if I could automise this and get this data via a web service or via api.

allow tables with circular references to sync [is now completed]

2012-02-01T07:44:11-08:00

allow tables with circular references to sync [updated]

2012-02-01T07:44:11-08:00

Mark Scurrell (admin) responded:

Thanks for the feedback. The service now supports self-referencing tables as of the service update at end Jan'12.

Provide API’s to configure, manage and initiate sync [is now planned]

2012-02-01T07:43:07-08:00

Allow on-premises or cloud-based applications to configure sync groups and initiate syncs.

Provide monitoring API’s [is now planned]

2012-02-01T07:42:48-08:00

Provide a REST API to allow synchronization status to be monitored programmatically. For example, current status of all Sync Groups to determine if syncs are succeeding or failing for any reason.

Support full-text indexing [updated]

2012-01-31T16:02:57-08:00

Our application is heavily dependent on it. So this is a blocker right now.

Mauricio Marques said:

Oh my Gosh... It's veryyyyyyyyyyyy important.

Without it my clients can't move !!!

Turkey

2012-01-31T14:07:31-08:00

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I'm Turkish add could't find 3 mouth trial support for Turkey. I'm offended. Just kidding not offended.

Add Cache emulator to Windows Azure Emulators

2012-01-31T13:07:13-08:00

Jack suggested:
I know I could install AppFabric Cache, but there are differences between caching On-Premises and in the Cloud. Other way around emulator would be to provide cheap, low memory, operational time-limited Cloud cache, for development purposes only.

Provide SLA for single instance Azure [updated]

2012-01-31T11:29:21-08:00

Currently Windows Azure Plafrorm offers SLA of 99.95% for compute service for Azure solutions that comprizes of 2 or more role instances. However, very often Azure is used to prove untested business ideas. It does not make sense to have to pay upfront for high-availability and additional components (Azure AppFabric Cache for Session state, etc). A lot of ISV will want to go to market with one instance and if the business idea works - scale out. So it would make sense that Microsoft defines an SLA for a solution comprizing of one role - obviously we would not expect 99.95% something like 90% SLA would be enough. For this to work we would also like that the updates in the datacenter do not happen during working hours in a given geography. Regards, Michal

David Rodriguez said:

Looking for the same here!

Full Management Studio Support [updated]

2012-01-31T10:59:24-08:00

Currently you can only run queries against SQL Azure databases. It would be good to get the rest of management studio working (object explorer etc.)

Tim B said:

I just connected to my SQL Azure database for the first time through SQL Server Management Studio, only to discover it doesn't support database diagrams.

Are you kidding me? I have to script each and every modification?

I'm not too far along in my project, I may just use an ordinary SQL Express DB. Given the prevalence of transient errors, this means it may make more sense to drop SQL Azure altogether.

Add SEQUENCE GENERATOR feature

2012-01-30T11:08:38-08:00

Shaun suggested:
Add the ability to create user-defined sequence generators. This includes adding the funcitonlaity in a Federated Member.

Access to CDN over SSL / HTTPS [updated]

2012-01-29T14:32:15-08:00

Currently the Azure Storage CDN feature doesn't support SSL, especially SSL using a custom domain. It would be awesome to be able to make use of the CDN feature with an SSL / HTTPS secured website.

simnova said:

+1 for ssl on custom domain

Why not available in my country? [updated]

2012-01-28T02:39:59-08:00

I tried to buy an zure plan today and suddenly after 10 minutes of registration i found a message telling me the service is not supported in your country. i live in UAE why it's not supported ? and why there is no such information about that

Iserbkin said:

+1 Latvija

Include Analysis Services in SQL Azure [updated]

2012-01-27T08:12:42-08:00

drjlbailey said:

To become and stay the leader in the cloud space, adding Analysis Services is a critical move.

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/interest-growing-in-cloud-based-business-intelligence-tools/?track=NL-964&ad=860003&asrc=EM_NLN_16191578&uid=8236367

nigeria

2012-01-26T02:46:07-08:00

pelumini suggested:
Azure should be availabe in nigeria

Add native MVC3 support to WebRoles

2012-01-26T02:02:49-08:00

Chaim Brykman suggested:
"Elementary my dear Watson"... So frustrating: at least 6 different assembiles ("NuGet.Core"?) required to run a basic MVC application.

OLE DB Provider for connecting to SQL Azure [updated]

2012-01-25T13:05:11-08:00

Mihkail Dikov said:

Same here, we use OleDB all over our products and for a good reason. Support of OleDB for will enable us to migrate much sooner.

Support full-text indexing [updated]

2012-01-25T12:15:50-08:00

Our application is heavily dependent on it. So this is a blocker right now.

Elias Farah said:

We definitely need the full text search feature as soon as possible. If this item is not prioritized and a release released date is no communicated, it will definitely hurt the move to Azure.
We have more than 60 clients waiting for this. Please respond.

Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure. [updated]

2012-01-25T10:29:43-08:00

jinishans said:

Public Cloud isnt going tobe sucess until providers charge for actual ram, cpu usage instead of 24x7x365 availability. Theyre not understanding even without people moving to public cloud they still have those cpu, ram & hdd keep running, then why not charge only for actual usage...!

Provide DNS Services for my domains and sub-domains [updated]

2012-01-25T08:38:22-08:00

DNS is crucial - if it's down, my Azure web roles are down. I don't trust GoDaddy and Verisign with my production DNS, so I either need to have on-premise load balanced DNS servers or pay someone to do it. It would be great if Windows Azure took care of this for me.

Pete @ Philtinium said:

We've been using dnsazure.com which has done a superb job of handling our A records dynamically for our site soundtracktoyour.com. Still it would be useful if as part of the Azure platform that these services were offered too.

Ability to force the CDN to refresh a specific blob from Azure Blob Storage [updated]

2012-01-25T08:31:34-08:00

Pete @ Philtinium said:

Or just simply a mechanism to invalidate the CDN's for a blob in the Azure portal. Again I can't believe there are not more votes for this as I would have thought this a useful mechanism for anyone changing there static content on a regular basis i.e. developing sprites or JS/CSS. Currenty I have TTL of 1 day but when I launch a new version I don't want to wait a day for the content to catch up with the new release.

Allow a Role instnace count of 0 [updated]

2012-01-25T07:19:46-08:00

In many scenarios it is useful to have a role that is only run for certain periods of the day. At present this is very complex to achieve as it involved using the management API to deploy and undeploy a whole service (from Blob storage). it would be much more elegant if the role count could be set to Zero thus undeploying all instances of just that role. In this way other services in the project could use the management API to start and stop just that Role.

Thomas Jespersen said:

Damn... this is a great idea. I see allot of great opportunities with this feature.

Eg. we could have a deployment with the job with our monthly, weekly, once a day job.

Also this could solve the problem with stopped roles that still are billed. So when you click "stop" you get an option to select instance count of 0 (knowing that this will result in a new DeploymentId, IP and so on).

Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure. [updated]

2012-01-25T05:46:31-08:00

Oz030 said:

A virtual server cost me 20$ a month. I would get 3 virtual servers for

- An extra small instance
- The minimum blob storage and transactions
- 1GB SQL databases

and then I have don't even have CDN, certificates, a DNS and a mail server. I really love Windows Azure and would love the see it be successfull. Windows Phone is so great as well but nobody knows because Microsoft can not convince people using this guy so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't sleep! Convince us! Make it happen!

See costs in Azure management interface during trial

2012-01-25T05:33:30-08:00

Oz030 suggested:
During trial a cost counter for in the management interface would be great to see how much it would costs if I would run Azure with the current configuration.

Support for tables for which primary key is different than Clustered index [updated]

2012-01-25T04:17:27-08:00

In a lot of situations the Clustered index differs from the primary key in a table. At this moment, Data Sync supports only tables for which the clustered index is the primary key. It would be nice if this restriction is not needed. This will make live much easier to sync data between on-premise and SQL Azure db. We can't change current datamodel in our application. Current datamodel is made based on performance.

Stevo said:

Absolutely, on one hand you suggest having Guids as PKs and removing the clustered index from them, on other hand this is not supported on Data Sync.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl-NL/ssdsgetstarted/thread/7e58f132-2b58-4554-9033-1e9745a2d61d

Seems like it is impossible to have a combination of Sql Azure + Federations + Data Sync that actually performs. (Assuming Data Sync will ever support Federations)

OLE DB Provider for connecting to SQL Azure [updated]

2012-01-24T15:25:42-08:00

Zie3D said:

We use OleDB extensively in our product. Currently OleDB works with Azure but it is not supported by MS, we would appreciate OleDB support. Thanks!

Send Email when nearing database MaxSize Limit [updated]

2012-01-24T09:22:31-08:00

It would be great if SQL Azure would send out an email when your database was reaching it's MaxSize limit. This would allow for us to increase the quota BEFORE our applications go down due to "database full" exceptions! Possibly, when hitting 80% of MaxSize and then a gain at 90%.

Henry said:

If you are open to using a 3rd party service, the Cotega service (http://www.cotega.com/) allows you to do this through email notifications when your database reaches a certain size. They are free right now while in Beta.

Support Sql Change Tracking [updated]

2012-01-24T09:17:37-08:00

Add in Sql 2008 Change Tracking

Henry said:

Until change tracking is added to SQL Azure, you might find this "how to" helpful: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-enable-sql-azure-change-data-capture.aspx

Add IntelliTrace against the compute emulator

2012-01-24T07:32:08-08:00

Tom suggested:
Would be great to have IntelliTrace work against the local compute emulator.

Support custom assemblies or at least offer some alternative [updated]

2012-01-24T01:14:29-08:00

Custom assemblies in SSRS 2008 are a great way to re-use code in different reports. They are also unit testable. Right now there seems to be no way to achieve this in SQL Azure Reporting, so it looks like we'll have to copy-and-paste a lot of re-occurring visual basic functions from one report to the other. This makes building the reports more a more tedious and error-prone process, not to mention the lack of unit testing for custom functions.

André van de Graaf said:

To implement Translation and localization of reports it is essential to use assemblies in your SSRS reports, Like you can do in on premise SSRS reports. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159238.aspx#External We have one set of files with all translations which we want to use in all reports for multiple databases. Beside translations, the user should be able to see reports in his preferred localization. For instance thousand separator, number format etc.

Integrate Windows azure portal login to facebook login

2012-01-23T14:39:26-08:00

Yagnesh suggested:
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make cache service less expesive

2012-01-23T10:37:18-08:00

zmorris suggested:
The cache service is just too expensive to use for a significant amount of data. Especially since it first uses memory from instances we've already paid for!

Support full-text indexing [updated]

2012-01-23T03:36:34-08:00

Our application is heavily dependent on it. So this is a blocker right now.

Leif Aksel Grøthe said:

Any progress on this issue? Understand Microsoft would not commit to a date, but can anyone say anything of what we could expect?

Support CLR Stored Procedures [updated]

2012-01-22T23:51:01-08:00

Anonymous said:

SqlCacheDependency requires this.

Create new SQL Azure role Backup-Manager and grant access to DAC WebService to users from that role

2012-01-21T03:22:55-08:00

Jack suggested:
So far only server-level principal can execute SQL Azure export to bacpac file using DAC WebService (i.e. https://am1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc/Export). I suggest you create new role 'backup manager' and grant execute of export service to users in that role.

Support files and Windows Azure Blobs [updated]

2012-01-20T14:10:13-08:00

Add synchronization capabilities for the Windows Azure Blob Service. Allow data to be synchronized between storage accounts and allow on-premises file data to be synchronized with the Blob Service.

Bart X. Tubalinal said:

This should be possible with the Sync Framework. This link is old but should still be applicable: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sync/archive/2009/12/03/synchronizing-files-to-windows-azure-storage-using-microsoft-sync-framework.aspx

Support for different on-premises databases [updated]

2012-01-20T14:04:02-08:00

On-premises SQL Server databases can currently be included in a Sync Group. Would you like support for other databases; if so, which ones?

Bart X. Tubalinal said:

Oracle

UDP EndPoints [updated]

2012-01-20T08:52:17-08:00

UDP endpoints would allow for full RTP/RTCP/RTSP media streaming implementations as well custom protocols for game systems.

Mauro said:

UDP ports are necessary to deploy a RADIUS server.

Support full-text indexing [updated]

2012-01-20T06:21:16-08:00

Our application is heavily dependent on it. So this is a blocker right now.

Christian said:

Our app relies on SQL full-text and the application features based on it cannot be omitted. The lack of the full-text feature in Azure causes that we cannot use it in production for customers deployments.

Easy way to identify federated tables

2012-01-20T05:39:02-08:00

Larry Franks suggested:
Currently the only way to determine which tables in a federation are federated is to do a join between sys.objects and sys.federated_table_columns. It would be nice to have a field in sys.objects similar to the federated field added to sys.databases.