diff --git a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListener.java b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListener.java
index 25979d15bae..ba80ce09af4 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListener.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListener.java
@@ -202,7 +202,10 @@ public class LoggingApplicationListener implements GenericApplicationListener {
 				environment);
 		LogFile logFile = LogFile.get(environment);
 		String logConfig = environment.getProperty(CONFIG_PROPERTY);
-		if (StringUtils.hasLength(logConfig)) {
+		if (ignoreLogConfig(logConfig)) {
+			system.initialize(initializationContext, null, logFile);
+		}
+		else {
 			try {
 				ResourceUtils.getURL(logConfig).openStream().close();
 				system.initialize(initializationContext, logConfig, logFile);
@@ -211,13 +214,18 @@ public class LoggingApplicationListener implements GenericApplicationListener {
 				// NOTE: We can't use the logger here to report the problem
 				System.err.println("Logging system failed to initialize "
 						+ "using configuration from '" + logConfig + "'");
-				ex.printStackTrace(System.err);
 				throw new IllegalStateException(ex);
 			}
 		}
-		else {
-			system.initialize(initializationContext, null, logFile);
-		}
+	}
+
+	private boolean ignoreLogConfig(String logConfig) {
+		return !StringUtils.hasLength(logConfig)
+				|| isDefaultAzureLoggingConfig(logConfig);
+	}
+
+	private boolean isDefaultAzureLoggingConfig(String candidate) {
+		return candidate.startsWith("-Djava.util.logging.config.file=");
 	}
 
 	private void initializeFinalLoggingLevels(ConfigurableEnvironment environment,
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListenerTests.java b/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListenerTests.java
index 4e3163040a3..7f6c9c4cdc8 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListenerTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/logging/LoggingApplicationListenerTests.java
@@ -141,6 +141,21 @@ public class LoggingApplicationListenerTests {
 				this.context.getClassLoader());
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void azureDefaultLoggingConfigDoesNotCauseAFailure() throws Exception {
+		EnvironmentTestUtils
+				.addEnvironment(
+						this.context,
+						"logging.config: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=\"d:\\home\\site\\wwwroot\\bin\\apache-tomcat-7.0.52\\conf\\logging.properties\"");
+		this.initializer.initialize(this.context.getEnvironment(),
+				this.context.getClassLoader());
+		this.logger.info("Hello world");
+		String output = this.outputCapture.toString().trim();
+		assertTrue("Wrong output:\n" + output, output.contains("Hello world"));
+		assertFalse("Wrong output:\n" + output, output.contains("???"));
+		assertFalse(new File(tmpDir() + "/spring.log").exists());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void overrideConfigBroken() throws Exception {
 		EnvironmentTestUtils.addEnvironment(this.context,