Azure VM Runtime Team

Azure VM Runtime Team

Long running RunCommands

Recently, there's been a bit of confusion involving long running RunCommands.For reference, the default wait time for RunCommand has been 90 minutes - the same as all other extensions. But what if you have a script that takes longer?Well, we've added a timeoutInSeconds parameter just for that purpose!az vm run-command create --...

Managing VM Applications with Azure Policies

For those unacquainted with the feature, VM Applications allow you to manage applications across virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. What exactly is an "application"? In truth, it's whatever you want. Typically, it's something that runs for a long period of time on the box, such as a service. However, the definition is really up ...