New Azure ”SQL Server Settings” Blade in the Azure Portal

I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I've been looking for an announcement regarding this new Azure portal experience, but I haven't found one yet. This feature wasn't available when I took the screenshots for my last post on creating a SQL Server 2008 R2 FCI in Azure on April 19th, so it must be relatively new.

New Azure "SQL Server Settings" blade on the Azure portal
New Azure "SQL Server Settings" blade on the Azure portal

Most of the settings are pretty self-explanatory. Under Security and Networking, you can specify the port you want SQL to listen on. It also appears as if the Azure Security Group will be updated to allow different levels of access to the SQL instance: Local, Private, or Public. Authentication options are also exposed in this new SQL Server settings blade.

Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With Azure Console

Microsoft Azure, which holds second-highest market share in the cloud computing domain is threatening to grab top honors in near future. To a great extent, the credit for this success is also due, to the ease with Microsoft Azure can be accessed to carry out computing. Azure Portal contributes greatly to this vertical. In this article, we will be exploring how Azure Portal makes it easy to bring all Azure's services under one umbrella.

Before we dive deeper and understand Azure Portal any further, here is a sneak peek into the pointers this article focuses on: