Azure Powershell Get Public IP of Staging Cloud Service

I also posted my question here..
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20690307/azure-powershell-get-public-ip-of-staging-cloud-service
I am using this answer to look up our cloud service's public ip via azure powershell.
Azure
Powershell: Get public virtual IP of service
This only returns the endpoints for the production cloud services. We also need to easily look up our staging cloud service endpoints.
Does anyone know how to look these up with Azure Powershell?
Thanks!

hi TWilly,
Thanks for psoting!
You could use "Slot" in your powershell.
Please see the description about "Slot":
-Slot<String>
Specifies the Windows Azure deployment environment. Choices are "Production" or "Staging".
You could use it to specify the emviroment.Like this sample :
C:\PS>Get-AzureRole –ServiceName "MySvc1" –Slot Staging –RoleName "MyTestVM3"
You could refer to this document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj152869.aspx
Please try it.
Regards,
Will
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