Invalid object name ‘sys.configurations’ while connecting to SQL Azure database via Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Just created a database in SQL Azure using Web UI – and promptly tried to connect using SSMS.

Failure:

Message:

Cannot connect to <servername>
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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Invalid object name 'sys.configurations'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208)

The workaround is:

1. cancel the first connect dialog box showed on start of SSMS
   
2. start with empty SSMS UI
   
3. Open “New Query…” –> the “Connect to server” dialog appears immediately:
   
4. Enter the connection data and press “Connect” – it should work now:
   
5. …enjoy!

More about this trick here (thanks to Stan Kitsis).

UPD: SSMS 2008 R2 worked as expected