

Create a Windows Azure VM with Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 image.

Log in to the Windows Azure management portal.Points to consider from Azure SLB perspective.Verifying that FTP server is using the port previously specified under data channel port.Adding Firewall rules to allow traffic on the added endpoint.Adding ports specified in the previous step as endpoint to the VM.Specify the data channel port for passive FTP connection on Windows Azure VM.Adding the FTP site to IIS Manager on Windows Azure VM.Installing FTP service on Windows Azure VM.Setting up a Passive FTP server in Windows Azure VM involves the following steps: Detailed information on FTP server modes here. Passive mode is extensively used to solve the issue of the client firewall blocking the FTP server data connection.

Also special thanks to Adam Conkle and Craig Landis for providing the "points to consider from Azure SLB perspective".įTP may run in active or passive mode. This post is authored by Lalitesh Kumar, Pradeep M G and reviewed by Avinash Venkat Reddy.
