Windows Azure Feature Voting

We’re in the process of reviewing and reclassifying all the suggestions on the site … please use the granular list of Forums on the right for new suggestions or to track previous suggestions
Thanks!

I suggest you ...

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".
(thinking…)

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

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

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

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

  1. 3 votes
    Vote
    Sign in
    Check!
    (thinking…)
    Reset
    or sign in with
    • facebook
    • google
      Password icon
      I agree to the terms of service
      Signed in as (Sign out)
      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
      0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Ability to set Proxy Server

      Allow the ability to set the proxy server for requests on windows azure storage

      I will say yes you can set the global but this isn't always ideal in all environments.

      3 votes
      Vote
      Sign in
      Check!
      (thinking…)
      Reset
      or sign in with
      • facebook
      • google
        Password icon
        I agree to the terms of service
        Signed in as (Sign out)
        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • make it easy to auto-start services in web roles

        As we're unable to access applicationHost.config, it seems incredibly involved to get a WCF service started automatically (for instance, so that it registers as an end-point on the Service Bus Queue).

        3 votes
        Vote
        Sign in
        Check!
        (thinking…)
        Reset
        or sign in with
        • facebook
        • google
          Password icon
          I agree to the terms of service
          Signed in as (Sign out)
          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
          0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Hi Performance SQL Azure option for Business databases.

          Our SQL Azure database is 30 Gb, couple tables with 10 million rows +/-.
          Performance really sucks at times. We would not mind paying a reasonable extra "performance" fee to secure more resources.
          Ideally it should be included as you scale the database up.

          3 votes
          Vote
          Sign in
          Check!
          (thinking…)
          Reset
          or sign in with
          • facebook
          • google
            Password icon
            I agree to the terms of service
            Signed in as (Sign out)
            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
            1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Add subscription offers for SQL Azure Web Edition

            The SQL Azure subscription offer appears to only cover the 10GB Business edition. There are some good reasons to partition data across the smaller 1GB Web edition databases, but there is no subscription offer for these databases. Please consider adding a subscription option for other database sizes.

            It would be nice if SQL Azure subscriptions were modeled after the Windows Azure subscriptions. Those are offered in small-instance hours which can be translated to instance hours for the medium, large, and extra large instances as well.

            3 votes
            Vote
            Sign in
            Check!
            (thinking…)
            Reset
            or sign in with
            • facebook
            • google
              Password icon
              I agree to the terms of service
              Signed in as (Sign out)
              You have left! (?) (thinking…)
              0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Create a Windows Phone 7 compatible StorageClient library

              It would be helpful to have a StorageClient library built for use in windows phone 7 apps.

              3 votes
              Vote
              Sign in
              Check!
              (thinking…)
              Reset
              or sign in with
              • facebook
              • google
                Password icon
                I agree to the terms of service
                Signed in as (Sign out)
                You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • VM machine should contain software library folder so time for downloading and installing will be reduce.

                Comparing with Cloudshare.com
                1. VM there are very less preconfigured VM's are available.
                2. They provide the access through browser good one for mobile device users.
                3. Share the own machine drives for data sharing with RDP VM machine should be included.
                4. Deployment of Non Microsoft (MySql and PHP) website need to make easy with tool tips and tutorials.
                5. Overall Good Speed in VM machine with best BCP support.
                6. Thanking you for providing preview to test the environment .

                3 votes
                Vote
                Sign in
                Check!
                (thinking…)
                Reset
                or sign in with
                • facebook
                • google
                  Password icon
                  I agree to the terms of service
                  Signed in as (Sign out)
                  You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                  0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Have preconfigured development VMs for occasional contractors

                  I have a full time job, with access to the Microsoft stack. Occasionally, however, I take on small contract jobs on the side that require me to use the Microsoft stack.

                  I definitely wouldn't use my employer's equipment or software to do side jobs. It would be useful to be able to set up a quick Azure VM with either Windows Server 2012 Datacenter or Windows Server 2008 that includes the last 3 or 4 versions of Visual Studio, plus SQL Server Express preinstalled.

                  3 votes
                  Vote
                  Sign in
                  Check!
                  (thinking…)
                  Reset
                  or sign in with
                  • facebook
                  • google
                    Password icon
                    I agree to the terms of service
                    Signed in as (Sign out)
                    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                    0 comments  ·  windowsazure.com  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • MOCP for ISVs

                    To sell, provision, bill and manage subscriptions of ISV applications running on Windows Azure, ISVs also need to have a kind of MOCP (Microsoft Online Services Customer Portal). A first approach could be to have a white label of MOCP that ISVs will use with their customers. A second approach perhaps more ambitious would be to federate the customer “MOCP” experience to let customer have only a single CP for all their subscriptions (the Microsoft Online Services subscriptions plus all the one from ISV running on Azure).

                    3 votes
                    Vote
                    Sign in
                    Check!
                    (thinking…)
                    Reset
                    or sign in with
                    • facebook
                    • google
                      Password icon
                      I agree to the terms of service
                      Signed in as (Sign out)
                      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                      0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Get the list of access control namespaces for a windows azure subscription by REST API

                      Get the list of access control namespaces for a windows azure subscription by REST API

                      3 votes
                      Vote
                      Sign in
                      Check!
                      (thinking…)
                      Reset
                      or sign in with
                      • facebook
                      • google
                        Password icon
                        I agree to the terms of service
                        Signed in as (Sign out)
                        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • 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.

                        3 votes
                        Vote
                        Sign in
                        Check!
                        (thinking…)
                        Reset
                        or sign in with
                        • facebook
                        • google
                          Password icon
                          I agree to the terms of service
                          Signed in as (Sign out)
                          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                          0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Separate billing for AppFabric Client and Server Connections

                          I am a service provider and want to have my clients financially accountable for the connections they use. Currently I'm responsible for all Listener connections and Host connections.

                          3 votes
                          Vote
                          Sign in
                          Check!
                          (thinking…)
                          Reset
                          or sign in with
                          • facebook
                          • google
                            Password icon
                            I agree to the terms of service
                            Signed in as (Sign out)
                            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                            0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Make the Azure SDK and .net SDK available in Cloud VM- For dynamic project generation in Cloud

                            In liaison with one of our requirement where we need to generate the complete solution having the cloud poject (ccproj), the different worker roles and supporting call libraries in the one cloud role. Since the project count in the solution are too many (as per our requirement) we tried leveraging the parallel processing using Azure cloud infrastructure.

                            3 votes
                            Vote
                            Sign in
                            Check!
                            (thinking…)
                            Reset
                            or sign in with
                            • facebook
                            • google
                              Password icon
                              I agree to the terms of service
                              Signed in as (Sign out)
                              You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                              0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Please, come on, Windows Azure Appliance!!!

                              All the Windows Azure features in a box.

                              3 votes
                              Vote
                              Sign in
                              Check!
                              (thinking…)
                              Reset
                              or sign in with
                              • facebook
                              • google
                                Password icon
                                I agree to the terms of service
                                Signed in as (Sign out)
                                You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • show me why my cpu is slow when 80%idle

                                Every version of windows has this habit, nothing is responding and task mamanger shows 80% idle. I suspect is might be disk swapping or something but I have no visibility as to which process is actually taking all the cycles so task manager doesnt see it.

                                3 votes
                                Vote
                                Sign in
                                Check!
                                (thinking…)
                                Reset
                                or sign in with
                                • facebook
                                • google
                                  Password icon
                                  I agree to the terms of service
                                  Signed in as (Sign out)
                                  You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                  0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • IP address in signed storage URLs?

                                  Almost everything is in the title: I'd like to see an IP address restriction to be added to signed URLs, in addition to the existing start and end of validity. On the client side, this would mean adding an IPAddress property to Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.SharedAccessPolicy. If set, the IP address given would be added to the URL and signed with the rest. On the server side the Azure Blob Storage would only grant access if the timeframe and IP address matches.

                                  3 votes
                                  Vote
                                  Sign in
                                  Check!
                                  (thinking…)
                                  Reset
                                  or sign in with
                                  • facebook
                                  • google
                                    Password icon
                                    I agree to the terms of service
                                    Signed in as (Sign out)
                                    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                    0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • 3 votes
                                    Vote
                                    Sign in
                                    Check!
                                    (thinking…)
                                    Reset
                                    or sign in with
                                    • facebook
                                    • google
                                      Password icon
                                      I agree to the terms of service
                                      Signed in as (Sign out)
                                      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                      0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • a real "pay-as-you-use" solution for Azure VMs

                                      Azure VMs can be used for several purposes. Problem is, even when stopped, you have to pay for them because they keep things allocated.

                                      How amazing would it be to install an Azure VM (as remote workspace for example), stop it, transfer the image to storage (and only pay storage fees) and then not be charged? (like detaching)
                                      IP reservation and resource allocation is not needed in that case, and would be really useful for companies trying to setup Cloud workspaces for employees. So we would only need a thin client connecting to that instance, with our tools installed on…

                                      3 votes
                                      Vote
                                      Sign in
                                      Check!
                                      (thinking…)
                                      Reset
                                      or sign in with
                                      • facebook
                                      • google
                                        Password icon
                                        I agree to the terms of service
                                        Signed in as (Sign out)
                                        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                        1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Add functionality to check for queue with no entries (including invisible entries)

                                        When a queue becomes empty I want to kick off some processing. However queue empty does not equal complete empty as there might be invisible objects on the queue that might come back. Thus it is not truly empty.

                                        Functionality to check a queue _really_ empty i.e. no objects invisible or visible would be very useful.

                                        Currently what I'm using is "peekMessage" returning null but this returns null even if there are invisible objects on the queue

                                        3 votes
                                        Vote
                                        Sign in
                                        Check!
                                        (thinking…)
                                        Reset
                                        or sign in with
                                        • facebook
                                        • google
                                          Password icon
                                          I agree to the terms of service
                                          Signed in as (Sign out)
                                          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                          0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Host WCF service objects outside of a host partition.

                                          Virtualized machine environments just complicate stateless WCF service hosting. Reduce the hosting unit to the service so the service can scale without needing to manage host partitions.

                                          3 votes
                                          Vote
                                          Sign in
                                          Check!
                                          (thinking…)
                                          Reset
                                          or sign in with
                                          • facebook
                                          • google
                                            Password icon
                                            I agree to the terms of service
                                            Signed in as (Sign out)
                                            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                            0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                          • Don't see your idea?

                                          Windows Azure Feature Voting

                                          Feedback and Knowledge Base