Cannot add apostrophe to Azure Cloud Service Internal Load Balancer settings

Question

How can I add an apostrophe to the subnet attribute in the FrontendIPConfiguration for an Azure Cloud Service Internal Load Balancer?

The subnet name contains an apostrophe, this is not an issue when deploying and attaching to a VNet, the apostrophe is allowed in that part of the cscfg configuration and I can publish and see the instances on the VNET. However, an apostrophe is not allowed in the ILB config section. This is the config in question:

 <LoadBalancers>
      <LoadBalancer name="test-ilb">
        <FrontendIPConfiguration type="private" subnet="VM's" staticVirtualNetworkIPAddress="10.120.16.102" />
      </LoadBalancer>
    </LoadBalancers>

In Visual Studio I cannot publish the cloud service due to this. I have also tried creating a package and editing the cscfg config outside of VS and then uploading. I have tried using powershell to add the ILB after I have uploaded it, but recieved an error saying the operation cannot be performed on a deployment containing web or worker roles.

Finally, I have tried substituting the apostrophe with a different value (some of these are long shots), but none worked:

'
'
'
''
\'
'
'

Any help would be appreciated. The alternative of renaming the subnet would be a longer path to take and I am hoping to avoid it.

Answer 1

Special characters are not supported Yves