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Microsoft Azure DNS: add the client portal records
How to publish the two DNS records for your client portal address at Microsoft Azure DNS. Each record below is written the way Microsoft Azure DNS asks for it.
Before you start
Name servers at Microsoft Azure DNS usually look like ns1-01.azure-dns.com. If yours look different, your DNS is run elsewhere: see how to find your DNS host in the full guide.
- The zone must be delegated: your registrar must list all four Azure DNS name servers of this zone.
- Several zones can share a name, each with its own name servers. Edit the zone whose name servers your registrar lists.
Where Microsoft Azure DNS shows the name servers
The Overview page of the zone lists its four name servers.
Fill in your own values
Enter the address you added in Atlas, and paste the TXT value Atlas shows for it. Every record on this page and on the provider guides then shows your exact values. What you enter stays in this browser.
For example portal.yourfirm.com, without https:// in front of it.
Copy it from the card of your address in Atlas. It starts with atlas-portal-verification=
Your domain is read as yourfirm.com. If your DNS provider shows a different domain at the end of the name field, enter only the part of the name before that domain.

Open the DNS editor
Sign in at Microsoft Azure DNS, then follow this path:
Add the TXT record
Choose + Add.
In Type, choose TXT.
In Name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In Value, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL and TTL unit: 1 hour.
Choose Add to save the record.
- Azure DNS uses names relative to the zone.
TXT record
Proves that your firm controls this address.
- Type
TXT- Name
_atlas-portal.portalFull name: _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
- Value
Copy this value from the Atlas screen, or paste it above to see it here. It is unique to your firm.
- TTL and TTL unit
1 hour.
Add the CNAME record
Choose + Add.
In Type, choose CNAME.
In Name, enter the name shown in the record below.
In Alias, enter the value shown in the record below.
Time to live
TTL and TTL unit: 1 hour.
Choose Add to save the record.
- For Alias record set, choose No. The Alias field below it is where the target goes.
CNAME record
Sends visitors of this address to your client portal.
- Type
CNAME- Name
portalFull name: portal.yourfirm.com
- Alias
portal.wrxstack.com- TTL and TTL unit
1 hour.
How Microsoft Azure DNS names the fields
| Atlas shows | TXT record | CNAME record |
|---|---|---|
| Record type | Type | Type |
| Record name | Name | Name |
| Record value | Value | Alias |
| Name form | The part before your domain | |
Things to watch at Microsoft Azure DNS
- A CNAME record set cannot share its name with any other record set, and holds only one record.
Check that it worked
Go back to Atlas and choose Check now on the card of your address, or ask DNS yourself:
dig +short TXT _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
dig +short CNAME portal.yourfirm.com
nslookup -type=TXT _atlas-portal.portal.yourfirm.com
nslookup -type=CNAME portal.yourfirm.comMicrosoft says to wait at least 10 minutes after delegating a zone before checking it.


Official help from Microsoft Azure DNS
The help articles Microsoft Azure DNS publishes on these steps. If the screens at Microsoft Azure DNS have changed, follow them.
- Quickstart: Create a public DNS zone and record in the Azure portallearn.microsoft.comOfficial help
- Manage DNS record sets and records with Azure DNSlearn.microsoft.comOfficial help
- DNS Zones and Records Overviewlearn.microsoft.comOfficial help
- Tutorial: Host your domain in Azure DNSlearn.microsoft.comOfficial help
What this guide could not confirm
The help pages of Microsoft Azure DNS do not state the following. Where a label is missing above, look for the field described here.
- Microsoft articles name the opening button Add, under Record sets, in one article, and Record sets in another.
Other providers
The notes about Microsoft Azure DNS are in English, because they quote the labels Microsoft Azure DNS shows on its screens. Back to the full guide