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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to manage virtual machines in Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here flying through the digital stratosphere on our final day with Windows PowerShell and Azure! We started by creating a virtual network for our Azure workstations and escalated to spinning up some virtual machines. To read more, see the p...

Summary: Learn how to define the default storage account to be used with the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.  How do I tell Azure which media or storage account I'd like to use when I create a virtual machine?  Use Get-AzureStorageAccount to access the names of your storage accounts, and            t...

Summary: Create a simple virtual machine from a predefined template in Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here with my head still stuck in the clouds! Yesterday we created a network in Microsoft Azure for our resources to leverage—much like Hyper-V leverages a virtual network switch for its resources. Today we'll create a si...

Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to identify which services a datacenter will contain.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to identify which services a particular datacenter in Azure contains?  Access the AvailableServices property from the Get-AzureLocation cmdlet, for example: (Get-AzureLocation | where { $_.Displ...

Summary: Access some information you need to easily automate virtual machine creation in Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here to rain the Power of PowerShell and Azure down onto you!    Note This is the third post in a series. You might also enjoy reading: Yesterday we saw how to create storage in Azure. Today we'...