{"id":4566,"date":"2012-11-09T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2012-11-06T01:33:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:33:28","slug":"creating-new-endpoints-to-open-up-access-to-windows-azure-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/creating-new-endpoints-to-open-up-access-to-windows-azure-virtual-machines.htm","title":{"rendered":"Creating new endpoints to open up access to Windows Azure virtual machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-azure-in-10-easy-steps.htm\">creating a virtual machine on Windows Azure<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/connecting-to-a-windows-computer-running-on-windows-azure.htm\">connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure<\/a>, I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowsazure.com\/en-us\/manage\/windows\/how-to-guides\/setup-endpoints\/\">endpoints<\/a> but didn&#8217;t explain the process for creating new ones, i.e. opening up new ports for Internet access:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine endpoints\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-endpoint-1.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The RemoteDesktop endpoint shown above was created automatically when my virtual machine was provisioned but it may also be necessary to create new endpoints, for example allowing HTTP access over TCP port 80, HTTPS over TCP 443, etc.<\/p>\n<p>To create a new endpoint, open up the virtual machine in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manage.windowsazure.com\/\">Windows Azure management console<\/a>, then select Endpoints and click the Add Endpoint button at the bottom of the screen. \u00a0When creating endpoints, a new endpoint can be established or, if one already exists, this may be selected to load balance between multiple virtual machines. I only have a single virtual machine and so I selected add endpoint:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine endpoints\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-endpoint-2.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, specify a name (HTTP would have been a better name than the one I used in the example below), select a protocol, and chose the port numbers:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine endpoints\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-endpoint-3.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The endpoint will then be created and the virtual machine will be accessible using the chosen protocol and port numbers:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine endpoints\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-endpoint-4.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To test the connection, I connected to my virtual machine over RDP and configured Windows Server roles\/features in Server Manager (I installed IIS, just to\u00a0prove\u00a0that the machine was Internet-connected &#8211; but the server could be running any workload). Then, I connected to my virtual machine&#8217;s public DNS using a web browser (I could also have used the public virtual IP\u00a0address\u00a0shown in the dashboard for the virtual machine):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IIS running on Windows Azure IAAS\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-iis-1.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent posts on creating a virtual machine on Windows Azure\u00a0and connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure, I mentioned endpoints but didn&#8217;t explain the process for creating new ones, i.e. opening up new ports for Internet access: The RemoteDesktop endpoint shown above was created automatically when my virtual machine was provisioned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/creating-new-endpoints-to-open-up-access-to-windows-azure-virtual-machines.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating new endpoints to open up access to Windows Azure virtual machines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[176,110],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-azure","tag-iis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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