At the time of writing PIPs are in Public Preview. As you’ll notice below, you can’t assign a PIP using the management portal but that may change when PIPs are out of preview and in general availability. Also note that at the time of writing PIPs are free and you can assign one PIP per VM and have […]

Please note that the following tutorial is intended for users of Windows Vista/Server 2008 on-wards. With Microsoft Azure you have two ways of managing your account. The first and easiest way is to use the web management portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) and the second way is to use Azure PowerShell. In this tutorial I’ll lay out how