How to set up FTP on Azure VM

Question

I need some help setting up FTP on my Azure VM instance.

The VM is Windows Server 2012 R2. I have set up the Web Server Role and created an FTP site in IIS. I have

Answer 1

You need to add an additional port range, which the ftp server will choose from for each ftp connection.

You'll need to create a bunch of input endpoints, each representing one of the ports in the specified port range. Note that you have a limited number of input endpoints (not sure of the exact number, but you should easily be able to open, say, 50 input endpoints in contiguous ports). Then just set up the ftp server to use that same range. Also, you'll want to map the input endpoint public port to the same private port number, otherwise connections won't be created properly.