New azure portal layout?

Andrew Williamson 30

What's with the awful new layout? Any way to select the old one?
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Vinodh247-1375 11,396 Reputation points

2024-04-26T08:33:25.19+00:00

Hi Andrew Williamson,

Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

Always create a dashboard that would be suitable to your environment. For example, below is my dashboard that I would see as soon as I login into portal.azure.com. I have customized it to reflect the resource name, type and the region they are in. If you want, you can track by cost too. Let me know if this is what you are referring to.

Please 'Upvote'(Thumbs-up) and 'Accept' as an answer if the reply was helpful. This will benefit other community members who face the same issue.
AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-04-26T11:23:12.4366667+00:00
@Andrew Williamson , please let us know if the response above helped.

If the response above did not help you, please share additional details for example,

Where do you see these menu options? Based on my understanding, this seems to be resource menu option of Subscriptions in the portal.

My Subscription's resource view is very similar to what you have shown - I am trying to understand what has changed or am I missing something?
Andrew Williamson 30 Reputation points

2024-04-29T09:28:53.31+00:00

Absolutely not relative to the problem, @Vinodh247-1375 . My question wasn't about dashboards.
Vinodh247-1375 11,396 Reputation points

2024-04-29T09:42:27.0066667+00:00

What's with the awful new layout? Any way to select the old one?

Could you add more context to your ask? so we, from the community can try to assist you?
Andrew Williamson 30 Reputation points

2024-04-30T10:01:12.5333333+00:00

The collapsible sections view, as in my picture - it's a pain as you need to go looking for things. I much prefer the old style layout, for example:
Vinodh247-1375 11,396 Reputation points

2024-04-30T13:52:34.06+00:00
will this work for you?

Do you see the favorite option in that bar? Mark the services that you need in the dashboard as 'Favorite'

You can click on the ellipsis button to drag all the services up and down as per your need

You can post this as your feedback here...

https://feedback.azure.com/
Paul Smith 15 Reputation points

2024-05-01T08:15:51.4133333+00:00

When did this update roll out? Doesn't appear for all users.

I'd love to have the old menu back, just for a clear separation between menu items the config doesn't allow this option.
Joseph Sirgey 10 Reputation points

2024-05-02T13:14:04.4833333+00:00

I'm one of the lucky ones to have the new expieience and i agree it sucks and would love to go back, I guess if you are in the portal everyday doing specific taks it might be nice to not see anything you dont need, but when you are trying to find an option its a PITA.
Denny Wieck 5 Reputation points

2024-05-06T13:25:00.24+00:00

Just logged in today to find this new layout, while the rest of my team still enjoys the old style.

An option to change it back would be much appreciated.
Andrew Williamson 30 Reputation points

2024-05-07T15:32:15.9633333+00:00

@Vinodh247-1375 Your suggestions about dashboards and marking things as favourites are not relevant to the issue.
AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-08T05:42:09.91+00:00

Andrew Williamson, Thank you for the reply. I have reached out to the portal team to see if the old experience can be reverted. I will keep this thread updated with any information that I receive.
AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-14T07:41:11.65+00:00
@Andrew Williamson, Denny Wieck, Joseph Sirgey, Paul Smith - please find below the response from portal team:

The menu was improved to be flexible for all users.

You can personalize the default collapse/expand state in the Appearance + startup views settings

Each menu adapts to your usage, remembering the menu groups you left collapsed/expanded per resource type throughout sessions

For quick access, you can mark frequently used items as favorites

Please let us know if you have any questions on the improved menu. I would like to hear what you think about it now that you’ve used it for a while.
Andrew Williamson 30 Reputation points

2024-05-15T11:16:54.94+00:00

"Improved" in whose opinion?

Not mine anyway - I get your point about it being customisable but I and other here clearly prefer the old way of working. At least having it as an option wouldn't be so bad, instead of forcing someone else's idea of "improved" on us.

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AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-01T05:49:25.4766667+00:00
@Andrew Williamson, thank you very much for the clarification.

You can control the default behavior of service/resource menu by using the steps below:

In Azure Portal, click "Settings" icon at the top right corner:

Select "Appearance + startup views"

Select "Expanded" option for "Service menu behavior"

Setting this option will ensure that the resource menus open with an expanded view where all the options are visible.

Hope this helps.

Please let us know if you have any questions.
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Andrew Williamson 30 Reputation points

2024-05-01T13:07:31.26+00:00

That just opens them - it's still not the way it was previously.

Also, I found that the Modules menu was missing in the new layout for Azure Automation accounts. Bit strange....

AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-02T04:39:53.2833333+00:00

Andrew Williamson, thank you for the reply. I agree with your point and I will be reaching out to portal experience team to get more details around it.

Regarding the missing "Modules" menu from the Azure Automation account - this is not related to the overall Portal update. Instead, it appears that you have switched to using the new "Runtime Environment Experience" under Azure Automation. In this new experience, the modules are part of Runtime Environment itself.

For Azure Automation, if you wish to switch to old experience, the option is available in Overview as shown below:

Hope this helps.

AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-14T07:39:18.1366667+00:00

Andrew Williamson, Thank you for leaving feedback on the recently updated left side menu in the Azure Portal.

The menu was improved to be flexible for all users.

You can personalize the default collapse/expand state in the Appearance + startup views settings

Each menu adapts to your usage, remembering the menu groups you left collapsed/expanded per resource type throughout sessions

For quick access, you can mark frequently used items as favorites

Please let us know if you have any questions on the improved menu. I would like to hear what you think about it now that you’ve used it for a while.

AnuragSingh-MSFT 20,431 Reputation points

2024-05-15T05:04:15.64+00:00

Andrew Williamson, Following-up to check if you had a chance to review the answer provided.

If the answer did not help, please add more context/follow-up question for it. Else, if the answer helped, please click Accept answer so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics.
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