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Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 4

Summary: Learn how to leverage Desired State Configuration with a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here today filling in for my buddy Ed. Today I'll show you how to leverage Desired State Configuration (DSC) with a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. This post is part of a series. To catch up, read: ...

Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 3

Summary: Learn how to spin up a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney is here. Ed is still resting nicely, so today, I'll show you how to spin up a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure! If you add Get-Help against the New-AzureVM cmdlet, you'll have an example like this one: New-AzureVMConfig -Name "MyNewVM" -...

Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 2

Summary: Learn how to work with sizing names in Microsoft Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is back again to show more really cool stuff in Microsoft Azure. Be sure to also read Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 1. When you're creating a virtual machine, you need to specify its size. In Hyper-V or ...