How to enable Ping(ICMP) on Azure

Question

In Windows Azure role, I cannot ping out

D:\\Users\\foglight>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.143.104] with 32 bytes of data:
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Answer 1

I had a similar problem. Needed to assign public IP to Azure VM in order to enable ICMP. I used set-azurepublicip and update-azurevm and resolved the issue.