I\'ve tried the suggestions on a number of sites (http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/Trackback.aspx?guid=e81a4682-0851-490b-a3d2-adf254a701e7 and http://www.itq.nl/blogs/p
I was able to get passive FTP to work on my Azure VM without using any Powershell commands. Just follow the steps at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wats/archive/2013/12/13/setting-up-a-passive-ftp-server-in-windows-azure-vm.aspx
The article above has all the steps you need in order to set up FTP on your Azure VM.
Hope this helps!