Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud.

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...

Unfortunately, you cannot upload files directly in the Azure portal. Instead, I'll use PowerShell, as I mentioned earlier. To do this, first ensure you have the Azure PowerShell module installed.

Building parameters to templates prevents having to create multiple templates for small differences. PowerShell is a great way to deploy your parameterized templates using the Azure PowerShell module ...

At the ongoing Build 2017 developer conference, Microsoft has announced the Azure Cloud Shell, which brings support for Bash in the Azure Portal, with PowerShell support expected to be added later.