I have setup FTP within IIS7 on a Windows 2008 Virtual Machine. I enabled Port 21 within the endpoints and Active FTP works just fine. But I am unsure to how to connect through Passive. I followed Microsoft documentation (enabled a range of ports within IIS and allowed the same ports on the local firewall) I also allowed the ports within the endpoints in Azure Management. This didnt work.
I read somewhere on an unofficial MS forum that MS do not allow Passive FTP within Azure. Is this true? If not can someone direct me to the right documentation?
Thanks
SOLUTION I followed instructions in this article. The problem I was having was I didn't stop and start the FTP service after doing this. It wont work otherwise.
Passive FTP should work fine in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. However, you may not be able to choose large port range since you can only have up to 25 endpoints in Azure and this could be limitation to have Passive FTP. This Forum discussion talk more about it.
You can find this blog which explains how they configure Passive FTP with IIS on Windows Virtual Machine.