Azure VM looses static IP after stopping and starting the VM in the portal ?

We found challenge in assigning static IP to the VMs

1. We created VMs like DC and other Windows server VM
2. In the portal selected Network resource and made the private IP static
3. Internally inside the server, assigned the same IP as static with default gateway and DNS

The above settings works fine in that session, but after “stop” ing the VMs and starting next day or something the settings had gone for static IP inside the server

And if I try to assign same IP inside server I get following error

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Microsoft TCP/IP

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The IP address 10.0.0.5 you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter (Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter #2) which is no longer present in the computer.  If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they both become active, only one of them will use this address.  This may result in incorrect system configuration.

Do you want to remove the static IP configuration for the absent adapter?

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