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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 ...

Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 1

Summary: Learn how to use the Azure PowerShell cmdlets to identify built-in virtual machine templates. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to help out and give Ed a break (enjoy some tea and rest your fingers, my friend). In November, I touched on how to use Windows PowerShell for some overall setup and management of the Azure ...

Managing Azure IaaS with Windows PowerShell: Part 5

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 ...

Managing Azure IaaS with Windows PowerShell: Part 4

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...

Manage Azure IaaS with Windows PowerShell: Part 3

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...