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HOW TO CREATE WINDOWS 11 VIRTUAL MACHINE ON AZURE PORTAL

Step 1: Logging into Azure Portal
Open your web browser and navigate to https://portal.azure.com.
Sign in using your Azure account credentials.
Step 2: Navigating to Virtual Machines
After logging in, you’ll land on the Azure dashboard. In the left-hand menu, click on “Virtual machines”
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step 3: click on create
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4: Click on Azure virtual machine.
We will now go through different tabs to configure our virtual machine.
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step 5: In Basics tab:
Click on Create new below the Resource group selection field, enter a Name and click OK button.
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step 6: Enter a name in Virtual machine name field.
step 7: Select a region closest to you in the Region field.
Select Zone 1 in Availability zone field.
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In the Image field, click the dropdown menu and select Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2 — x64 Gen2.

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step 8 In the Size field, the free default choice should be selected as shown in the picture below.
step 9 Enter a Username and Password. Save them somewhere safe as we will need them later on to sign in to our virtual machine.

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step 10: In Public inbound port field, select Allow selected ports.
In Select inbound port field, select RDP (3389).
Check Licensing checkbox and click Next button.

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step 11: Click “Next” till we get to boot diagnostics in the Monitoring tab and click on “disable”.
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step 12: Click on “Review + Create” button, if the validation passes, the deployment will go on if not take not of any recommendation, fix and try again.

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step 13:When done, click on the Go to resource button.

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step 13: Save the Public IP address as we will need it in the next part and extend the Ip address

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Congratulations! You successfully created your Windows 11 virtual machine!

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