DEV Community: Adisa Oluwaseyi

How to Create a Virtual Machine Connect RDP to it, Install a Web Server to it and Add a Data Disk to it

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:32:47 +0000

A virtual machine (VM) is simply a digital version of a physical computer. As a virtualized instance of a computer, a virtual machine can execute almost all tasks a physical computer can, including running operating systems and applications.

Azure Virtual Machines are scalable, on-demand computing resources offered by Microsoft.

A data disk is a managed disk that's attached to a virtual machine to store application data, or other data you need to keep. Data disks are registered as SCSI drives and are labeled with a letter that you choose. Each data disk has a maximum capacity of 32,767 gibibytes (GiB). The size of the virtual machine determines how many data disks you can attach to it and the type of storage you can use to host the disks.

In this guide we will be creating a Windows Virtual Machine, RDP into it, install a Webserver, add a Data disk and initialise the disk and make it usable

Creating a Windows Virtual Machine

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter Virtual Machine, then click Virtual Machine

Step 3:
On the virtual machine page click create button and select azure virtual machine

Step 4:
Resource Group
Select a resource group or create a new one by clicking create new option shown below the input bar

Virtual Machine Name
Input the Virtual Machine name of your choice, in this example i will be using thismyvm

Region
Select a region where the virtual machine will be located, in this example i will be using East US

Availability Option
Select No infrastructure redundancy required

Security type
Select Standard

Image
Select an operating system (which is image) of your choice, in this example i will be using Windows Server 2019 Datacenter x64 Gen2

VM Architecture
Select x64

Step 5:
Enter a username which must be between 1 and 20 characters long, in this example i will be using azureuser as my username.
Set a password that the value is between 12 and 123 characters long in this example i will be using Password123* as my password.

Step 6:
Set public inbound ports as Allow selected ports.
For select inbound ports tick HTTP and RDP.
Then click review + create button

Step 7:
Goto monitoring and disable Boot diagnostics

Step 8:
Go back to review+create tab and click the create button. After clicking create the portal will start your virtual machine deployment process.

RDP into the Virtual Machine

Step 1:
After the deployment process is complete click the Goto Resource button

Step 2:
On the Virtual Machine page click connect button

Step 3:
Click Download RDP file and your Virtual Machine RDP file will be downloaded

Step 4:
Goto your download folder and open the RDP file, for mac users make sure you have microsoft remote desktop application installed, download and install it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id1295203466?mt=12

Step 5:
Open the RDP file and input your username and password you set while creating your Virtual Machine, then click continue.

Step 6:
A prompt window will pop up click continue

Step 7:
Our Windows Virtual Machine is live.

Installing a Web Server to the Virtual Machine

Step 1:
On your virtual machine go to windows search and type powershell, then select powershell and run as administrator

Step 2:
On powershell type this command:

install-windowsfeature web-server

Step 3:
You should see this screen if you have successfully install a web server to the virtual machine

Step 4:
Go to the overview page of the virtual machine we created, then copy the public IP address

Step 5:
Open a new tab in your browser and paste the IP address we copy then hit enter

Step 6:
As you can see we have successful install a web server to our Virtual Machine

Adding a Data disk to our Virtual Machine

Step 1:
Goto the overview page of your virtual machine we created, then click disk on the left

Step 2:
Click create and attach a new disk

Step 3:
Enter a data disk name of your choice, in this example i will be using datadisk as my data disk name, then enter the data disk size of your choice, in this example i will be using 10GiB as my data disk size, then click save.

Initialising the Data disk and making it Usable

Step 1:
Go back into your Virtual Machine, then on your windows search bar search for disk management, then click create and format hard disk partitions

Step 2:
You will see an initialise disk pop up, click ok

Step 3:
Scroll down to disk 2, then right click on it and click New Simple Volume

Step 4:
Click Next

Step 5:
Click Next

Step 6:
Enter a volume label of your choice in this guide i will be using datadisk as my volume label, then click next

Step 7:
Click finish

That will be all for this guide, thank you for reading!!!

How to create a Virtual Machine and Resource Group using Azure Command-line Interface

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:03:08 +0000

The Azure Command-line Interface is a cross-platform open source command-line tool that we may use to build and manage resources in the Azure portal.

This application allows us to issue commands and manage Azure resources directly from the Windows command prompt. Since this application is cross-platform users can easily install it on windows, linux or macOS.

It is nearly identical to Azure Powershell in capability and function.

In this guide we will be using Azure CLI to create a resource group and virtual machine, execute commands in the cloud shell.

Creating Resource Group and Virtual Machine with Azure CLI

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the icon on the top right corner, then select bash

Step 3:
Click confirm to switch to bash

Step 4:
To create a resource group paste these codes into your Azure CLI:

az group create --name mycoolRg --location EastUS

Step 5:
To create a Virtual Machine paste these codes into your Azure CLI:

az vm create \
--resource-group mycoolRg \
--name myVMcli \
--image UbuntuLTS \
--generate-ssh-keys

in the code above i used mycoolRg and myVMcli as my resource group name and my virtual machine name respectively, you can use any name of your choice

Confirming the Resource group and Virtual Machine created

Step 1:
Go to Azure portal page and search for resource group and click it

Step 2:
Here is the resource group created, click it

Step 3:
As you can see here is the Virtual Machine we created with Azure CLI

Thank you for reading!!! 🙏

How to create a Virtual Machine and Resource Group using Azure Powershell

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:16:42 +0000

Creating Resource Group and Virtual Machine with Powershell

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the icon on the top right corner, then click powershell

Step 3:
Click show advanced settings to create a storage account if you don't have one

Step 4:
On the storage account field enter a storage name of your choice, also enter a file share name of your choice, then click create storage

Step 5:
To create a resource group paste this codes into your powershell:

New-AzResourceGroup -Name ‘mycoolerRg’ -Location ‘EastUS’

for the resource group name i will be using "mycoolerRg" you can use any name of your choice

Step 6:
To create a Virtual Machine paste these codes into your powershell:

New-AzVm `
    -ResourceGroupName "myCoolerRg” `
    -Name "myVMps” `
    -Location "East US" `
    -VirtualNetworkName "myVnetPS” `
    -SubnetName "mySubnetPS” `
    -SecurityGroupName "myNSGPS” `
    -PublicIpAddressName "myPublicIpPS”

for user enter anyname of your choice, password also use any password of your choice

Confirming the Resource Group and Virtual Machine created

Step 1:
Go to Azure portal page search for resource group and click resource group

Step 2:
Here is the resource group created, click it

Step 3:
As you can see here is the Virtual Machine we created with Azure Powershell

Thank you for reading!!!

Implementing Azure Key Vault

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:17:48 +0000

What is a Key Vault

Azure key vault enables you to securely store secrets such as tokens, passwords, certificates, cryptographic keys and API keys.

Azure key vault also provides a centralized, cloud-based service for creating, storing and managing keys and certificates. By storing secrets in key vault you gain the capability to easily monitor and audit access and also gain the capability to easily use these secrets among many Azure services.

In this guide we will be creating a key vault and then store a secret password within it.

Creating a Key Vault

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter key vault, then click key vault

Step 3:
On the Key vault page click create button

Step 4:
Select a resource group or create a new one by clicking create new option shown below the input bar, enter a key vault name of your choice, choose a Region of your choice and leave pricing tier as standard

Step 5:
Leave days to retain deleted vaults at 90, then tick disable purge protection, lastly click review + create

Step 6:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 7:
After deployment is completed click go to resource

Storing a secret password in our Key Vault

Step 1:
On the key vault page click secret on the left hand side

Step 2:
When the secret page opens click Generate/Import

Step 3:
Leave upload options as default, enter a secret name of your choice, enter any secret value of your choice you want to keep in Azure key vault, then set activation date and set expiration date, leave the rest the settings as default

Step 4:
Viola!!! you have successfully added a secret to a key vault

Implementing Resource Tagging in Azure

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:19:18 +0000

What are Tags?
Tags provides metadata for Azure resources, it also logically organizes resources into a taxonomy.

Tags are very useful for rolling up billing information.

In this guide we will be creating a policy assignment that requires tagging, we will also create a storage account and test the tagging.

Creating a Policy Assignment that requires Tagging

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter policy, then click policy

Step 3:
On the policy page click assignments on the left, then click assign a policy

Step 4:
On the Assign Policy page click ... button on the right under policy definition

Step 5:
Search for tag in the search bar, click require a tag and its value on resource, then click add

Step 6:
Go to the parameters tab, then enter a tag name of your choice and a tag value of your choice then click review + create

Step 7:
After validation has passed click create button

Creating a Storage Account to test required tagging

Step 1:
Go back to Azure portal homepage then on the search bar search for storage accounts, then click storage accounts

Step 2:
On the storage accounts page click create button

Step 3:
On the create a storage account page, select an existing resource group or create a new one, enter a storage account name of your choice, also select a region of your choice leave performance and redundancy as default

Step 4:
Go to tags tab, enter the tag name that was created earlier and also the tag value created earlier then click review

Step 5:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 6:
After deployment is completed, click Go to resource

Step 7:
Viola!!! as you can see we have added a tag to our storage account

How to Lock a Resource group in Azure

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:19:27 +0000

Resource locks protect your Azure resources from accidental deletion or modification. With Resource lock you can manage locks at subscription, resource group, or individual resource levels within Azure portal.

In this guide we will be creating a resource group, add a lock to it and test deleting a resource in the resource group

Creating a Resource Group

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter resource group, then click resource group

Step 3:
On the resource group page click create

Step 4:
Enter any name of your choice for your resource group, and select any region of your choice, then click review + create button

Step 5:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 6:
After the resource group has been created, click go to resource group

Adding a Delete Lock

Step 1:
On the resource group page click locks on the left side

Step 2:
On the locks page click add

Step 3:
Enter a lock name of your choice, lock type select delete, then add a note and click ok

Test deleting a resource in the resource group

Step 1:
Go to Azure portal page click the search box and enter storage account, then click storage account

Step 2:
On the storage account page click create button

Step 3:
Select the resource group we created earlier

Step 4:
Enter a storage account name of your choice, select any region of your choice leave other settings as default, then click review

Step 5:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 6:
After deployment is completed click Go to resource button

Step 7:
Click delete button

Step 8:
Viola!!! the resource can't be deleted

How to manage access with Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Mon, 22 May 2023 16:58:10 +0000

Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) is a system that provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources. Using Azure RBAC, you can segregate duties within your team and grant only the amount of access to users that they need to perform their jobs.

In this guide we will be using Azure RBAC to assign roles and view activity logs

Creating User

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click search box and enter Azure active directory, then select Azure active directory

Step 3:
On default directory page click users on the left

Step 4:
On the User page click new user and select create new user

Step 5:
Enter a principal name of your choice, enter a display name and leave the rest of the settings as default, then click review + create

Step 6:
Click create

Step 7:
Click on the user we just created

Step 8:
On the user page click reset password to get a temporary password

Assigning Role to User

Step 1:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter resource group, then click resource group

Step 2:
On the resource group page click create button

Step 3:
Enter a resource group name of your choice and choose a region of your choice then click review and create button

Step 4:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 5:
After the resource group has been created, click go to resource group

Step 6:
On the resource group page click Access control (IAM) on the left side

Step 7:
On the access control page click add button, then click add role assignment

Step 8:
On the Add role assignment page search for Virtual Contributor in the search box

Step 9:
Scroll down and select Virtual Machine Contributor then click next

Step 10:
On the Add role assignment page click select members, then select a member and click select

Step 11:
Add description and click review + assign button

Step 12:
Viola!!! role has been added, now to view activity log, click activity log on the left

How to create Azure Virtual Machine within 60 seconds

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:22:20 +0000

In this guide we will be using Azure Quickstart Gallery to deploy a template that creates a Virtual Machine

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter deploy a custom template, then click deploy a custom template

Step 3:
Click create a linux virtual machine

Step 4:
Resource Group
Create a new resource group by clicking create new option shown below the input bar, you can use any name of your choice

Region
Select a region where the Virtual Machine will be located, in this example i will be using East US

VM Name
Enter a VM name of your choice

Admin Username
Enter a username of your choice in this example i will be using Azureuser

Authentication type
Tick Password

Admin Password or Key
Set a password of your choice, in this example i will be using Password123*

Step 5:
As you can see the rest of the settings has been populated for us, this is the benefit of using a custom template to create VM, Click Review + Create

Step 6:
Click Create button when validation has been passed to begin creating your new Virtual Machine using Azure Quickstart Custom template

Step 7:
When deployment is completed, Click Go to resource

Step 8:
Click on the virtual machine

Step 9:
Viola!!! your Virtual Machine created with Azure Quickstart Custom Template is running

How to achieve High Availability in Azure

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:06:20 +0000

In today's fast-paced business environment, downtime can be very detrimental. With increasing dependency on cloud computing, achieving high availability has become a critical requirement for enterprises to ensure uninterrupted operations and meet customer demands. Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud platforms, offers a wide array of tools and features to enable organizations to achieve high availability for their applications and services. In this article, we will explore the best practices for achieving high availability on Azure.

What is High Availability
In simple terms, high availability is all about keeping your systems alive in case anything goes wrong. High availability is the quality of computing infrastructure that allows it to function even in the event of components failure. This is very critical for systems that cannot tolerate interruption in service, and any downtime can result in financial loss.

One of the important principles of high availability in Azure or anywhere else is to eliminate all single points of failure. For instance, if you had 1 Web Server and if that Web Server goes down, your whole website will be unavailable. So, to prevent that, you would need to have multiple Web Servers working together to ensure that the site stays up even if a Web Server goes down.

Highly available systems assure a certain percentage of uptime, let’s say, a system with 99.9% uptime will be down only 0.1% of the time.

Steps to achieving High Availability:

1. Design for Redundancy: Azure provides multiple regions and availability zones that are geographically distributed across the globe. When designing your architecture, it's crucial to distribute your resources across multiple regions or availability zones to ensure that your applications and services are not impacted by a single point of failure. By leveraging Azure's redundancy options, such as Azure Availability Zones, Azure Virtual Network (VNet) peering, and Azure Traffic Manager, you can create a robust and fault-tolerant infrastructure that can withstand failures at the regional or zone level.

2. Implement Auto Scaling: Auto Scaling allows you to dynamically adjust the capacity of your resources based on demand. Azure provides various tools like Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure App Service auto scaling, and Azure Load Balancer that enable you to automatically scale your resources up or down based on predefined conditions such as CPU utilization, network traffic, or custom metrics. Implementing auto scaling ensures that your applications can handle varying workloads and maintain performance during peak times, while also optimizing costs during periods of low demand.

3. Leverage Azure Backup and Site Recovery: Azure Backup and Site Recovery are essential tools for ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery. Azure Backup allows you to securely back up your data and applications in Azure, while Azure Site Recovery helps you replicate and recover your on-premises or virtualized workloads to Azure or another Azure region. By leveraging these services, you can ensure that your data is protected against accidental deletion, corruption, or other disasters, and quickly recover from any unexpected outages or failures.

4. Use Load Balancing and Traffic Manager: Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager are crucial components for achieving high availability and optimal performance. Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines or backend services, ensuring that your applications can handle increasing loads and avoid overloading any single resource. Azure Traffic Manager provides global load balancing and failover capabilities, allowing you to route traffic to the closest or healthiest endpoint based on predefined rules. By leveraging these services, you can distribute and manage traffic efficiently, achieve fault tolerance, and minimize downtime.

5. Monitor and Automate: Monitoring and automation are essential for proactively identifying and resolving issues that may impact availability. Azure provides various monitoring and alerting services like Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Application Insights that enable you to collect and analyze telemetry data from your applications and resources. By setting up automated alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds or anomalies, you can detect and respond to issues in real-time. Additionally, Azure Automation and Azure Logic Apps allow you to automate routine tasks, such as scaling, backups, and patching, ensuring that your resources are always optimized for high availability.

In conclusion, achieving high availability on Azure requires careful planning, design, and implementation of best practices. By leveraging Azure's redundancy options, implementing auto scaling, leveraging backup and site recovery, using load balancing and traffic manager, and monitoring and automating your resources, you can unlock the full potential of Azure and ensure uninterrupted operations for your applications and services. With a robust and fault-tolerant infrastructure, you can meet the demands of today's digital world and provide an exceptional experience to your customers.

Implementing an Azure Function App

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:38:18 +0000

What is Azure Function App

The Azure Fuctions service enables you to host a single method or function that runs in response to an event such as queued message, HTTP request, or time event.

You can use any of several programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C# and Powershell, to create functions.

Like many other services, the Azure Function service scales automatically enabling your function to scale to meet changes in demand without any interaction or configuration by your developers. Perhaps best of all you pay only for the time and resources needed while a function is running.

Generally an Azure Function is stateless meaning it doesn't store its state from execution to execution, instead it executes the same every time it responds to an event.

In this guide we will be creating a function app with a Webhook to provide a Hello message with your name

Create A Function App

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
From the search box, enter function app and select function app under services.

Step 3:
On the function app page click create

Step 4:
On the basic tab of the function app, follow the following steps

Resource Group
Create a new resource group by clicking create new option shown below the input bar, you can use any name of your choice.

Function App name
Enter any name of your choice

Publish
Select code

Runtime stack
Select .NET

Leave the rest of the settings as default.

Step 5:
Click Review+Create button as seen in the image below

Step 6:
Click Create button when validation passes to begin creating your new function app instance.

Step 7:
When deployment is completed, Click Go to resource

Create a HTTP triggered event function and test

Step 1:
Click functions on the left tab then Click Create

Step 2:
Select HTTP trigger.

Step 3:
After Selecting HTTP trigger, scroll down, in the New function place holder input any name of your choice, leave Authorization level as default.

Step 4:
Click Get Function Url and copy the Url

Step 5:
Goto your browser tab and paste the Url you copied in step 4, then at the end of the Url look for a double equal to sign (==), then at the end of the equal to signs put &name=any name of your choice and hit enter, in this example i will be using Seyi so i will put &name=Seyi.

Step 6:
Viola that is all!!!

Connecting Raspberry Pi Simulator to Azure IoT Hub

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:15:05 +0000

What is Azure IoT Hub

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices that connect to and exchange data with other devices and services over the Internet or other network.

Azure IoT Hub is a managed services hosted in the cloud that acts as a central message hub for communication between an IoT application and its attached devices.

In this guide we will be configuring an Azure IoT Hub in Azure portal and authenticating a connection to an IoT device using online Raspberry Pi device simulator, to read more about Raspberry Pi device simulator visit www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-simulator-lets-you-start-tinkering-without-even-owning-a-pi/

Create an IoT Hub

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
From the search box, enter IoT Hub and select IoT Hub under services.

Step 3:
On the IoT Hub page select Create

Step 4:
On the basic tab of the IoT Hub, follow the following steps.

Resource Group
Create a new resource group by clicking create new option shown below the input bar, you can use any name of your choice.

IoT Hub Name
Enter any name of your choice

Region
Select a region where the IoT Hub will be located, in this example i will be using East US

Tier
Leave as default

Daily Message Count
Leave as default

Step 5:
Click Review+Create button as seen in the image below

Step 6:
Click Create button when validation passes to begin creating your new Azure IoT Hub instance.

Step 7:
When deployment is completed, click Go to resource

Add an IoT Device

Step 1:
To add a new IoT Device, under Device Management section click devices. Then click Add device

Step 2:
Enter any name of your choice for your new IoT device, in this example i will be using MyIoTDevice, leave every other settings as default and click save

Step 3:
If you do not see the new device click Refresh on the IoT device page.

Step 4:
Click the IoT device you just created and copy the primary connection string value
The string will be needed to authenticate a connection to the Raspberry Pi Simulator.

Testing the device using a Raspberry Pi Simulator

Step 1:
Visit azure-samples.github.io/raspberry-pi-web-simulator/#GetStarted to use Raspberry Pi Simulator Device.

Step 2:
In the code area on the top right corner, locate the line with "const connectionString="

Step 3:
Replace [Your IoT hub device connection string] with the connection string copied from Azure portal.

Step 4:
Click Run to run the application. The console output should show the sensor data and messages that are sent from the Raspberry Pi Simulator to the Azure IoT Hub. Data and Messages are sent each time the Raspberry Pi Simulator LED flashes.

Step 5:
Go back to Azure portal, click Overview on the Azure IoT hub page and scroll down, then under IoT Hub Usage you will see the numbers of messages sent from the Raspberry Pi Simulator.

Voila! that is all.

How to Create a Virtual Machine on Macbook

Adisa Oluwaseyi — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:15:52 +0000

What is a Virtual Machine (VM)?

A Virtual Machine is a software emulations of physical computers, they include a virtual processor, memory, storage and networking resources. A virtual machine host an operating system and you can install and run software just like a physical computer.

Steps to create a Virtual Machine

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
Type Virtual Machine into the search box as seen in the image below, then select Virtual Machine from the search result.

Step 3:
Click Create and select Azure Virtual Machine from the drop down options.

Step 4:
Resource group
Create a new resource group by clicking create new option shown below the input bar, you can use any name of your choice.
Then what is a Resource Group, A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.

Virtual Machine Name
Input the Virtual Machine name of your choice, in this example i will be using VM

Region
Select a region where the Virtual Machine will be located, in this example i will be using East US

Availability Option
Select No infrastructure redundancy required

Security type
Select Standard

Image
Select an operating system (which is image) of your choice, in this example i will be using Windows Server 2019 Datacenter x64 Gen2

VM Architecture
Select x64

Step 5:
Enter a username which must be between 1 and 20 characters long, in this example i will be using azureuser as my username.
Set a password that the value is between 12 and 123 characters long, in this example i will be using Password123* as my password.

Step 6:
Set Public Inbound Ports as Allow Selected Ports.
For Select Inbound Ports leave as RDP(3389)

Step 7:
Click Review+Create button as seen in the image below.

Step 8:
Goto monitoring and disable Boot diagnostics

Step 9:
Go back to review+create tab and click the create button.
After clicking create the portal will start your Virtual Machine deployment process

Step 10:
After the deployment process is complete click the Goto Resource button

Step 11:
Click connect button and a drop down will show select RDP from the dropdown options.

Step 12:
Click Download RDP File and your Virtual Machine RDP file will be downloaded

Step 13:
Goto downloads and open the RDP File, make sure you have Microsoft Remote Desktop application installed, Download and Install it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id1295203466?mt=12

Step 14:
Open the RDP File and input your username and password you set while creating your Virtual Machine

Step 15:
A prompt window will pop up click continue

Step 16:
Viola your Virtual Machine is ready!