In Azure, you can create a Web App, deploy to Azure and configure it using the Portal.

But, is there a way to get more configuration options for a Web App's scalability and diagnostics without having to use just the portal? Can this be also done in Visual Studio?

• Edited by Shahed ChowdhuriMicrosoft employee 14 hours 56 minutes ago fixed typo
• Moved by David Ebbo 13 hours 31 minutes ago Not Azure Web App related, moving to Cloud Services

Instead of simply deploying a Web App, you can create a Cloud Service with a Web Role.

This will allow you to edit many configuration settings in Visual Studio, including the following:

• Instance Count
• VM Size
• Enable Diagnostics
• Certificates

For more information, refer to the following documentation:

How to: Configure an Azure Cloud Service Project with Visual Studio
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh369933.aspx

How to: Configure the Roles for an Azure Cloud Service with Visual Studio
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh369931.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

• Marked as answer by Shahed ChowdhuriMicrosoft employee Wednesday, September 02, 2015 10:14 PM

Your answer is not really related to the question, which is about Web Apps. There is in fact a way to set arbitrary IIS settings with Web Apps, even if they're not directly available in the portal. See here for details.

Good point, David.

FYI, I recently helped a customer with the Cloud Service configuration for a web app, so I wanted to post it on MSDN as a self-answered question to help others as well. I'll rephrase the question to clarify it.

Thanks,

Shahed