Symptoms
When you use Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Management Studio to connect to an instance of SQL Server on Windows Azure, the connection fails and you receive the following error message:
The remote name could not be resolved: 'xxx.xxx.windows.net' (System)
Note The error message has "windows.net" as the DNS suffix.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2967546
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.