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  1. Add protection against deleting a production deployment

    When you're running a mission critical service in Azure as one or more cloud services, deleting the production deployments my mistake can become catastrophic.

    Not only because the service is suddenly out, but also, and perhaps more importantly, because you lose your public IP address. In many cases (ours included) losing the VIP reservation means weeks of downtime because we integrate with lots of banks and insurance companies many of which have a rigorous and time-consuming process for opening up their firewalls for incoming and outgoing calls to the new VIP.

    As long as you either always deploy to staging…

    7 votes
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    • Allow Content-Disposition http header on blobs

      Some documents only behave as the user expects if you can set the content disposition to attachment. For instance PowerPoint Slideshows (ppsx) are expected to open in full-screen mode. This only happens if it's set to be an attachment.

      Even better, it would be nice to allow arbitrary http headers to be blob properties.

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      • Allow node.js applications to be deployed using npm package

        Currently, Azure allows node.js applications to be deployed using Git.

        A lot of node.js apps build their minified scripts, css, etc. and as a result it's not in the git repo. In fact they normally want to publish the exact opposite of what's in the repo.

        Allowing node.js applications to be deployed using the resulting file of `npm pack` would be very useful as it could be customized to the users requirements.

        3 votes
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        • Usage .csv file all in English

          I'm from Italy. The usage .csv file (under billing area of the portal) is a mix of Italian and English. Add an option to force all to English.
          Discussion on forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazurepurchasing/thread/9112e8c9-de37-4900-b339-43a46533ea44/

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          • Auditing of Co administrator addition to Subscriptions

            Today there is no way to understand who was added to a subscription and who added them basically the audit trail is missing , it is a support call when this should be self service information . This is question being asked over and over again by audits like FISMA, ISO etc.

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            • Enable Security Event Logs Collection

              currently the Diagnostics Module does nott support collecting Security Event Logs.

              This could be helpful in monitoring and real-time alerting of security events such as multiple log-in retries through RDP endpoint by a malware that's trying to hack into the VM, trying to invoke secure methods on the server and could help identify security breaches in our roles.

              There should be some API that will enable the Diagnostics Agent collect Security Event Logs

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              • Enable Service Bus Relay feature for Java.

                From Java we would like to consume WCF services through Service Bus Relay.

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                  • Connecting to cloud service with multiple instances via Powershell Remoting

                    Connecting to VM via powershell remoting gives many flexibility to user. this can be done for the instances of a cloud service as well as VM. Now it possible to connect to instances via portal and RDP, but Powershell Remoting for instances is still missing and this feature can help user when it is needed to make some changes in each instance(Worker Role) automatically, where Powershell is the best choice to do that.

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                    • Refresh button for Azure web console (management).

                      Add refresh button for reload context data of view. For example on Virtual Machine Disk library button will refresh list of disks. Currently user must jump to another page and go back for reload data.

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                      • provide API to add co-administrator

                        provide API to add co-administrator to account

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                        • Imote Desktop for Windows Azure

                          'Imote Desktop for Windows Azure' is RemoteDesktop for Windows Azrure with client Agent Service.
                          "Imote" is Japanese that becomes a meaning of "Younger sister" in English. It is called "Imote" to be friendly, lovely, to want to use in Japan, and to become it. This service arranges the agent who mounts UX as friendly as the younger sister on the client, and comes to be able to manage Windows Azure by NUI of the conversation and the gesture, etc.
                          Image Screenshot is:
                          http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-01-51-80-ap/6710.ap_5F00_img003.png

                          13 votes
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                          • In the database management tool, fix the errors when working with uniqueidentifiers.

                            The online tool for managing database is great.
                            However, it look like uniqueidentifiers are not well supported yet.
                            The UI fail to generate an execute any request that contains an uniqueidentifier.

                            3 votes
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                            • allow a different dns name from the service name (like in the old Portal)

                              For different situations, at times, you may want a different DNS name for your service than the service name. In the old Portal you could do this. The new one automatically makes them the same. Requests this feature be added back.

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                              • add memory metrics to the resevered instance websites

                                When running a reserved instance of Azure websites I would like to see the metrics for memory usage.
                                This would allow me to see if I need to increase my instance size due to low memory before I start getting warnings.

                                3 votes
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                                • Don't charge per hour for reporting services. Allow scheduling of reports for reporting services.

                                  SRS allows scheduling of reports to run every hour or such and a history of the report runs are available, allow this in the Azure reporting services as well. Also charge for CPU usage not hour, having a Reporting service should be an incredibly small footprint.

                                  2 votes
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                                  • Make sure that when the invoice notice goes out, that the invoice is actually ready and available in the portal.

                                    Every month I get an email telling me my invoice for Azure usage is ready, but it usually takes weeks before it actually is. According to support this is because my end of period date is out of sync with my "anniversary date". This is very annoying and tune consuming, having to check back every so often.

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                                    • Make it easy to keep database connection details out of source code

                                      I want to avoid putting my production username/password for the Azure DB in source control where all other developers can see it and thereby have read/write access. This is not easy today. Couldn't it work similar to the way Azure credentials are transmitted during a deploy? Or maybe we could store this data in Azure tied to the account, and copied into new instances as they are spun up?

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                                      • Add an option for "personal consumers" that allows you to limit the potential charges to your bank account.

                                        At this time, Azure sells several services to host blogs and other CMS systems. As a personal consumer of these services, my only option is "Pay-As-You-Go", which does not allow any limit on spending. Imagine what might happen if a personal consumer's blog is hit with a DOS attack? It would be pretty easy to ruin someone's bank account with no limit to the charges. Perhaps a business would not consider this a problem, but as a personal consumer, this is an incredibly scary line of thinking!

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                                        • Delete role from deployment

                                          There is function in Service Management API that is called DeleteRole but that is not what this function do. Function requests deletion of entire deployment. New functionality could be that just role (virtual machine) could be deleted.

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