Microsoft released a new Windows Azure Management tool. The Windows Azure Management Tool was created to manage your storage accounts in Windows Azure. Developed as a managed MMC, the tool allows you to create and manage both blobs and queues. Easily create and manage containers, blobs, and permissions. Add and remove queues, inspect or add messages or empty queues as well.

Features
- Manage multiple storage accounts
- Easily switch between remote and local storage services
- Manage your blobs
- Create containers and manage permissions
- Upload files or even entire folders
- Read metadata or preview the blob contents
- Manage your queues
- Create new queues
- Monitor queues
- Read (peek) messages
- Post new messages to the queue
- Purge queues

Known Issues
The current release does not work with Windows 7 due to a bug in the RC version of PowerShell. Other OS versions should be unaffected.

You can download it here.

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