diff --git a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/AzureComputeProviderMetadata.java b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/AzureComputeProviderMetadata.java
index 460df67..5c5a6ae 100644
--- a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/AzureComputeProviderMetadata.java
+++ b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/AzureComputeProviderMetadata.java
@@ -17,31 +17,30 @@
 package org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm;


+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_DATADISKSIZE;
+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_IMAGE_LOGIN;
+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_SUBNET_ADDRESS_PREFIX;
+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_VNET_ADDRESS_SPACE_PREFIX;
 import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.IMAGE_PUBLISHERS;
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME;
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.OPERATION_TIMEOUT;
 import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.OPERATION_POLL_INITIAL_PERIOD;
 import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.OPERATION_POLL_MAX_PERIOD;
+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.OPERATION_TIMEOUT;
+import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME;
 import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.TCP_RULE_FORMAT;
 import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.TCP_RULE_REGEXP;
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_VNET_ADDRESS_SPACE_PREFIX;
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_SUBNET_ADDRESS_PREFIX;
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_DATADISKSIZE;
-
-import static org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config.AzureComputeProperties.DEFAULT_IMAGE_LOGIN;
-
+import static org.jclouds.compute.config.ComputeServiceProperties.TIMEOUT_NODE_TERMINATED;
+import static org.jclouds.location.reference.LocationConstants.PROPERTY_REGIONS;
 import static org.jclouds.oauth.v2.config.CredentialType.CLIENT_CREDENTIALS_SECRET;
-import static org.jclouds.oauth.v2.config.OAuthProperties.RESOURCE;
 import static org.jclouds.oauth.v2.config.OAuthProperties.CREDENTIAL_TYPE;
+import static org.jclouds.oauth.v2.config.OAuthProperties.RESOURCE;

 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.Properties;
+
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.Region;
+import org.jclouds.compute.config.ComputeServiceProperties;
 import org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.providers.internal.BaseProviderMetadata;
-import org.jclouds.compute.config.ComputeServiceProperties;
-
-import static org.jclouds.compute.config.ComputeServiceProperties.TIMEOUT_NODE_TERMINATED;

 import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;

@@ -79,6 +78,7 @@ public class AzureComputeProviderMetadata extends BaseProviderMetadata {
       properties.put(IMAGE_PUBLISHERS, "Canonical,RedHat");
       properties.put(DEFAULT_IMAGE_LOGIN, "jclouds:Password1!");
       properties.put(TIMEOUT_NODE_TERMINATED, 60 * 10 * 1000);
+      properties.put(PROPERTY_REGIONS, Region.locationIds());
       return properties;
    }

diff --git a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/AzureComputeServiceAdapter.java b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/AzureComputeServiceAdapter.java
index 82b792c..9d8c006 100644
--- a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/AzureComputeServiceAdapter.java
+++ b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/AzureComputeServiceAdapter.java
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@
  */
 package org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.compute;

+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
+import static java.lang.String.format;
+import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
+import static org.jclouds.location.reference.LocationConstants.PROPERTY_REGIONS;
+import static org.jclouds.util.Predicates2.retry;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -34,32 +40,30 @@ import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.compute.functions.VMImageToImage;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.Deployment;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.DeploymentBody;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.DeploymentProperties;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.NetworkInterfaceCard;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.ResourceProviderMetaData;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.StorageService;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMImage;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMHardware;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.Location;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.NetworkInterfaceCard;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.Offer;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.PublicIPAddress;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.ResourceProviderMetaData;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.SKU;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.StorageService;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMDeployment;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMHardware;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMImage;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VMSize;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.Version;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VirtualMachine;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain.VirtualMachineInstance;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.features.DeploymentApi;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.features.OSImageApi;
-import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.util.BlobHelper;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.functions.CleanupResources;
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.util.BlobHelper;
 import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.util.DeploymentTemplateBuilder;
 import org.jclouds.compute.ComputeServiceAdapter;
 import org.jclouds.compute.domain.Template;
 import org.jclouds.compute.reference.ComputeServiceConstants;
 import org.jclouds.domain.LoginCredentials;
-import org.jclouds.location.reference.LocationConstants;
 import org.jclouds.logging.Logger;
-import org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata;

 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
@@ -72,11 +76,6 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
 import com.google.common.net.UrlEscapers;

-import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
-import static java.lang.String.format;
-import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
-import static org.jclouds.util.Predicates2.retry;
-
 /**
  * Defines the connection between the {@link AzureComputeApi} implementation and the jclouds
  * {@link org.jclouds.compute.ComputeService}.
@@ -95,11 +94,11 @@ public class AzureComputeServiceAdapter implements ComputeServiceAdapter<VMDeplo

    private final AzureComputeConstants azureComputeConstants;

-   private final ProviderMetadata providerMetadata;
+   private final List<String> whitelistedRegions;

    @Inject
    AzureComputeServiceAdapter(final AzureComputeApi api, final AzureComputeConstants azureComputeConstants,
-                              CleanupResources cleanupResources, ProviderMetadata providerMetadata) {
+         CleanupResources cleanupResources, @Named(PROPERTY_REGIONS) String regions) {

       this.api = api;
       this.azureComputeConstants = azureComputeConstants;
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ public class AzureComputeServiceAdapter implements ComputeServiceAdapter<VMDeplo
       logger.debug("AzureComputeServiceAdapter set azuregroup to: " + azureGroup);

       this.cleanupResources = cleanupResources;
-      this.providerMetadata = providerMetadata;
+      this.whitelistedRegions = Splitter.on(',').trimResults().omitEmptyStrings().splitToList(regions);
    }

    @Override
@@ -288,8 +287,6 @@ public class AzureComputeServiceAdapter implements ComputeServiceAdapter<VMDeplo

    @Override
    public Iterable<Location> listLocations() {
-      final Iterable<String> whiteListZoneName = findWhiteListOfRegions();
-
       final Iterable<String> vmLocations = FluentIterable.from(api.getResourceProviderApi().get("Microsoft.Compute"))
               .filter(new Predicate<ResourceProviderMetaData>() {
                  @Override
@@ -314,7 +311,7 @@ public class AzureComputeServiceAdapter implements ComputeServiceAdapter<VMDeplo
               .filter(new Predicate<Location>() {
                  @Override
                  public boolean apply(Location location) {
-                    return whiteListZoneName == null ? true : Iterables.contains(whiteListZoneName, location.name());
+                    return whitelistedRegions.isEmpty() ? true : Iterables.contains(whitelistedRegions, location.name());
                  }
               })
               .toList();
@@ -322,11 +319,6 @@ public class AzureComputeServiceAdapter implements ComputeServiceAdapter<VMDeplo
       return locations;
    }

-   private Iterable<String> findWhiteListOfRegions() {
-      if (providerMetadata.getDefaultProperties().get(LocationConstants.PROPERTY_REGIONS) == null)  return null;
-      return Splitter.on(",").trimResults().split((CharSequence) providerMetadata.getDefaultProperties().get(LocationConstants.PROPERTY_REGIONS));
-   }
-
    private String getResourceGroupFromId(String id) {
       String searchStr = "/resourceGroups/";
       int indexStart = id.lastIndexOf(searchStr) + searchStr.length();
diff --git a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureComputeHttpApiModule.java b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureComputeHttpApiModule.java
index ab37962..014cde5 100644
--- a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureComputeHttpApiModule.java
+++ b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureComputeHttpApiModule.java
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ public class AzureComputeHttpApiModule extends HttpApiModule<AzureComputeApi> {

    @Override
    protected void configure() {
+      super.configure();
       install(new AzureComputeParserModule());
       install(new FactoryModuleBuilder().build(DeploymentTemplateBuilder.Factory.class));
-      super.configure();
       bind(OAuthScopes.class).toInstance(OAuthScopes.NoScopes.create());
    }
 }
diff --git a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/domain/Region.java b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/domain/Region.java
index a4453f5..8df80b3 100644
--- a/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/domain/Region.java
+++ b/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/domain/Region.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.domain;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Set;

+import com.google.common.base.CaseFormat;
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
@@ -72,6 +73,10 @@ public enum Region {
    public String iso3166Code() {
       return iso3166Code;
    }
+
+   public String locationId() {
+      return name.replaceAll("\\s", "").toLowerCase();
+   }

    public static Region byName(final String name) {
       Preconditions.checkNotNull(name);
@@ -93,5 +98,15 @@ public enum Region {
          }
       }));
    }
+
+   public static Set<String> locationIds() {
+      return ImmutableSet.copyOf(Iterables.transform(Arrays.asList(values()), new Function<Region, String>() {
+
+         @Override
+         public String apply(final Region region) {
+            return region.locationId();
+         }
+      }));
+   }

 }