A few weeks ago I set up a vm product. I then added a small handful of domains by clicking on the 'Manage Domains' button in the vm instance, added IIS, changed my A records to point to the public vm address 23.999.999.999 and everything has been working great.
I went back today to add another domain and I swear the 'Manage Domains' button has disappeared when you click on 'Virtual Machines' on the left navigation panel.
I had an OLD 'Web Site' instance so I clicked on that and that had a 'Manage Domains' button. I clicked on it and Holy Shit there were the domains I added recently to the vm product. I thought well maybe Microsoft decided that you have to have a website product to host a website on a vm product in IIS. So, I thought ok, so I went to add the new domain to the 'Website' product but the message 'The IP address to use when you configure A records' was a 168.999.999.999 ip address which I assume points to the 'Web Site' product and there isn't an option to change the ip address to the 23.999.999.999 which is the vm public address.
So just to test I deleted one of the domains in the website product, waited until the little bar graph was done and then re-added it and Holy Shit it worked. Its almost like someone hard coded that domain name to point to my vm instance. I did a search on 'Managing Domains' on an azure vm and found some great answers but the link within the Azure help systems has a message that it's 'no longer available'. Here it is.http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/gg981933.aspx.
Wow, I'm totally confused. Can anyone help. Thanks