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  1. Provide technology (Server etc) to run same clould application on premise

    I belive if microsoft provide nessery technology to run same azure service ( without any modification) on-premise, most of the company will start investing it now. Because all about clould is scaliblity and power, but how about existing infrastructure which I have now.

    In Long run I want to use all my resources I never want to depend on just clould. I want to start using my on-permise fist and when I need it I can extend my resources with clould. So I can start prepare my application infratructure for scalability now and feature when I need it I can…

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    • allow changing instance size of web role (extra small, small, ...) through the management portal without having to redeploy the application

      allow changing instance size of web role (extra small, small, ...) through the management portal without having to redeploy the application

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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.

        59 votes
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        • Remote Desktop as a service

          With the new azure IaaS service going public soon I would really like Microsoft to extend this offering to allow remote desktop as a service or remote application as a service using RDP.

          This could be licensed per concurrent connection as a local "External Connector Licensing" counterpart or a per user / device licensing mode.

          The trick could be to allow an “RDP gateway vm service role” which deploys multiple boxes in the same "subdomain" and allows me to scale the number of boxes in the role.

          There are several scenarios where this would come in handy. For us as…

          56 votes
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          • Clear cache in Azure CDN

            In Azure CDN, there should be option to clear cache.

            51 votes
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            • Concentrate on Security...this is first and foremost...

              With the shown lack of security and adequate data protection / backup through the sidekick issue, security should be the focus of Microsoft with Azure. It can't be full proof I know, I am nervous about cloud computing in general...

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              • Make javascript library for Blobs and Tables

                It would only require one server side call to obtain SAS(Shared Access Signatures) to get access.

                The library could also support parallel uploading for fast uploads!

                46 votes
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                • Remote Debugging Attach Visual Studio Cloud Services

                  From Visual Studio I would like a well integrated remote debugging experience with Windows Azure Cloud Services. This is a good start, but it would be extremely useful to have this integrated in to Visual Studio 2012.

                  http://www.fullscale180.com/Blog/post/2012/10/07/Remote-Debugging-Windows-Azure-Cloud-Services-with-Visual-Studio-2012.aspx

                  44 votes
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                  • Distributed Transactions in SQL Azure

                    SQL Azure Database does not support distributed transactions, which are transactions that multiple transaction managers (multiple resources). This means that SQL Azure doesn’t allow Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to delegate distributed transaction handling. Because of this you can’t use ADO.NET or MSDTC to commit or rollback a single transaction that spans across multiple SQL Azure databases or a combination of SQL Azure and an on-premise SQL Server.

                    41 votes
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                    • private input endpoints

                      Have the ability to flag an input endpoint as public (today) or private (accessible only within service). Private input endpoints would differ from internal endpoints in that they are load balanced so users don't need to create there own load balancing mechanims.

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                      • Git deployment to Cloud Service

                        As what we can do with Azure Website.

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                        • Have the Windows Azure Service Management API return JSON

                          I've been trying to create a Windows 8 Windows Azure Management App using Javascript. I've managed to connect to the Windows Azure SMAPI succesfully, but I noticed that only XML is returned.

                          The WinJS.xhr() function accepts a 'resonseType' option, which I can set to 'json'. This should cause the service to return JSON instead of XML, but apparently this is not yet supported by the Windows Azure SMAPI.

                          Now, I find myself looking for a good xml-to-json converter. I've found several, but none of them seem to be flawless and it seems that I'm forced to write my own (which…

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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.

                            38 votes
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                            • Add support for private repositories for deployment

                              At least with GIT is not yet possible to setup deployment from a private repository

                              37 votes
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                                • ACS for LiveId should provide the same claims as Live SDK

                                  For Live Id, ACS should provide at least the same claims as Live SDK, so it could be really used as a federated IdP. Now, if I want a claim for user email, I can use the ACS for facebook, google and yahoo, but not for Live! This way ACS just loses it's main purpose.

                                  31 votes
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                                  • Add ability to take and restore table storage snapshots

                                    To protect the data in table storage against human and application errors it would be great if it was possible to take incremental snapshots of table storage into blob or another storage account.

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                                    • Provide GPU cores on the cloud for HPC like Amazon does

                                      GPU computing will definitely give a perfomance boost for High Performance Computing. Amazon already offers this service so i thing Azure should provice a relevant service

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                                      • Windows Azure should support "reverse lookup"

                                        If user want to get hosted service DNS then using IP he/she can able to find DNS. As you can see in my case http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10612295/how-to-get-dns-name-from-rest-service-which-is-consumed-by-startuptask-of-azure/10622625#10622625
                                        I would like to get details of DNS of webrole application but nslookup shows me that it doesn't exist. Using this somehow user can process on DNS and do some logic. In my case i would like to detect staging vs production using DNS without certificate & management API

                                        29 votes
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                                          planned  ·  Rodrigo De CastroRodrigo De Castro responded

                                          Thanks for the suggestion. This feature is on our roadmap and we will update this thread once we have updates.

                                        • Allow a single transaction to span across multiple databases in SQL Azure (Federation)

                                          One may need to CRUD to multiple databases in a single transaction. If a user action generates multiple rows, in a scalable architecture like Federation, due to the randomness of GUIDs, rows will be distributed among several databases. We need the ability to rollback changes to any DBs if a CRUD operation on a table fails.

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