Microsoft has upgraded an IT management portal it’s developing for Azure that’s intended to calm the nerves of IT pros wary about moving on premises applications to the vendor’s cloud.

The revamped version improves how IT staffers track their Azure services and how they interact with the tool, Microsoft said in a blog post on Tuesday.

The navigation improvements are meant to simplify how users find Azure resources. For example, the “all resources” view will display a list of items such as web apps and virtual machines that customers own across all their subscriptions. The resources are sorted alphabetically and can be filtered by different criteria, although Microsoft acknowledges the list isn’t complete, an issue it’s working to fix.

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