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How to create SQL database - Managed Instance in Azure [Azure Portal]

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:31:59 +0000

What is Azure SQL?

Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that utilize the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud. It is designed to help businesses migrate, modernize, and innovate their SQL applications with ease. Azure SQL offers three main products:

Azure SQL Database: This is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) database engine that supports modern cloud applications. It includes serverless compute and Hyperscale storage options. Azure SQL Database handles most database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement

Azure SQL Managed Instance: This is also a PaaS offering that provides a fully managed instance of SQL Server with almost 100% feature parity with the SQL Server database engine. It is best suited for migrating existing SQL Server applications to the cloud with minimal changes

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: This Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) option allows you to run SQL Server inside a fully managed virtual machine in Azure. It provides full control over the SQL Server instance and the underlying operating system, making it ideal for lift-and-shift migrations

Follow the below steps to create SQL Database in Azure.

Log in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/)
Search for Azure SQL and select it.

Click on the CREATE button On the Azure SQL page.

The Create Azure SQL Database Managed Instance window will open now. Fill out the mandatory information required on the Basics tab.

Subscription: Choose your correct subscription.
Resource group: You can choose your existing resource group or create a new one by clicking the Create new link.
Managed Instance name: Provide a name for the managed instance.
Region: Select the region you belong to.
Compute + storage: Select the default or configure a new one by clicking on the Configure Manage Instance link per your business needs.
Managed Instance admin login: Provide a username for the login.
Password: Provide a password as per the password policy
Confirm Password: Confirm the same Password.

Click the Next: Networking > button to go to the Networking tab.

On the Networking tab, Fill in the optional options as per the business need.

Virtual network: Select a valid virtual network or Create a new one or the default one.
Connection type: You can choose a proxy(Default) option or a redirect connection type.

Public endpoint (data): Select the Enable option here.

On the tags tab, you can keep the default option. Click on the Next: Review + Create > button.

Finally, click on the Create button

Host A Static Website On Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:37:06 +0000

Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a code repository.

In this quick start, you are to deploy an application to Azure Static Web apps using the Visual Studio Code extension.

The first step is to configure your storage account to host a static website in the Azure portal.

__Under Azure Services, click Storage accounts

On the Storage accounts page, click Create to create a new storage account.

__On the Basics tab, enter the storage account name and other details.

__Click Review + Create Create.

click on GO To resources

_Locate your storage account and display the account overview.

__On the left pain, select Container to create a container for the website.

__Enter the details and click on create

__Select Static website On the left pain to display the configuration page for static websites.

Select Enabled to enable static website hosting for the storage account.

In the Index document name field, specify a default index page of index.html. The default index page is displayed when a user navigates to the root of your static website.

_In the Error document path field, specify a default error page of 404.html. The default error page is displayed when a user attempts to navigate to a page that does not exist in your static website.

Click Save.

_The Azure portal now displays your static website endpoint.

_Azure Storage automatically creates a container named $web. The $web container will contain the files for your static website. _

_Launch Visual Studio Code, and open the folder that you contain your website files, from the Explorer panel. _

_Install the Azure Extension in the Visual Studio Code and connect to it. You will be prompted to log in to Azure to retrieve a list of your subscriptions. Select the subscription containing the storage account for which you enabled static website hosting. Next, select the storage account when prompted. _

Right-click the Azure linked website folder in the Explorer panel and select Deploy to Static Website... to deploy your website.

Visual Studio Code prompt you to select your project folder.

__select the folder and upload your files to your web endpoint.

__Visual Studio Code show the success status bar.

Click Launch the website when deployment is completed or go to Azure to get the primary endpoint.

Launch the website in a browser.

to view it in Azure.

You've successfully deployed a static website to Azure.

Microsoft Azure AD Roles and Azure Roles Explained with Examples

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:54:04 +0000

Azure AD Roles are used to manage access to Azure AD resources, whereas Azure Roles are used to manage access to Azure resources. The scope of Azure AD roles is at the tenant level, whereas the scope of Azure roles can be specified at multiple levels including management group, subscription, resource group, resource. Azure AD roles and application roles are not linked together3. Azure AD roles are more for controlling access to Azure resources and don't really apply to application specific roles.

Azure Roles

These are ways of controlling access to Azure resources and services. They are defined by a collection of permissions that can be performed, such as read, write, and delete. Azure has several built-in roles or you can create your own custom roles. Some examples of Azure roles are Azure Administrator, Azure Developer, Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, and Azure Data Engineer.

Azure AD

This is an identity store in Azure. Here we can define users, groups, applications, and service principles. These users can authenticate onto Azure and they can access resources that are part of Azure subscription.

We can assign Azure AD roles to a user and these permissions are normally given to manage the various aspects of Azure AD.

Create users and Group in Azure and assign Users (Members) to the Group

To create a new Azure AD user, start by logging into your Azure Portal. Inside the portal, navigate to the Azure search and enter user.

Select the “Users” tab and click on “Create New User.”

Input the necessary user details and finalize by creating the user account.

Under Password unselect the autogenerate a password option it is easy to remember to give the password of your choice, scroll down to bottom leave rest options as default, and click Review + Create.

click on Create to finalize the process.

Once the user is created you will land on the below page where you can see the newly created user name, on refreshing, in the list of users.

click on the new user to see the user details.

How To Create Azure Groups - Administrative department

From the left-hand side of the Manage pane click on Groups or type group on the search bar.

__Select group

__Click on New group

Select Group type, Add Group Name, Group Description, Select Owners, and Select create to create a group.

Add members to the Azure Active Directory group

__From here you can manage the group or also you can add members.

__Click on the Group to see its details

__Select members

__Click on Add members

check the users you want to add to the group and click on select.

__Now we can see the members of the group.
__Click on a members to see its details.

__Click the Role assignments, on the left pane, to view the role assignments at this scope.

__Click on add assignments

__The Add role assignment page opens
__On the Role tab, select a role that you want to use.
__You can search for a role by name or by description. You can also filter roles by type and category.

__Click on add to give the role to the user
Steps to login the created Global Admin in into the Azure Portal with his new credentials

__Click on your account on the top right and select "sign in with a different account"

__enter the new user credentials

__Click Sign In to continue
__update your password,
If prompted to update your passwor

__Click Sign In to continue

__Once signed into Azure follow the prosses describe above to onboard users as an administrator.
__screen captures are as shown below;

We can now see the new user added by the new admin manager

Understanding Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and How to Create It using Azure portal.

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:23:32 +0000

Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) is an interesting service offered by Microsoft Azure, it helps to create and manage a set of identical, auto-scaling Virtual Machines (VMs). The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease based on scheduled conditions.

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets lets you create and manage a group of load balanced VMs whose number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or based on a defined schedule. It has the following Advantages.

Easy to create and manage multiple VMs
Provides high availability and application resiliency by distributing VMs across availability zones or fault domains
Allows your application to automatically scale as resource demand changes
Works at large-scale

A scale set can be deployed with a Windows image or Linux image such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or SLES.

Creating a Windows Virtual Machine Scale Set

In the Azure portal search bar, search for and select Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

Select Create on the Virtual Machine Scale Sets page.

In the Basics tab, under Project details, make sure the correct subscription is selected and create a new resource group.

Under Scale set details, enter your scale set name and select a Region that is close to your area.

Under Orchestration, select Flexible.

Under Scaling mode select Auto scaling and set up the scaling conditions.

Under Instance details, select a marketplace image for Image. Select any of the Supported Distros.

_Under Administrator account configure the admin username and set up an associated password. _

Select Next: Disks to move the disk configuration options. For this quickstart, leave the default disk configurations.

Select Next: Networking to move the networking configuration options.

On the Networking page, under Load balancing, select the Use a load balancer checkbox to put the scale set instances behind a load balancer.

In Load balancing options, select Azure load balancer.
_
_In Select a load balancer, select a load balancer or create a new one.

select Create new, type the name then select Create.

When done select Review + create.

After it passes validation, select Create to deploy the scale set.

Wait for deployment to finish.

Clik on Go to resources to view the deployment.

The resources deployed are shown bellow

Definition of Concepts

What is Orchestration?

Orchestration is the coordination and management of multiple computer systems, applications and/or services, stringing together multiple tasks in order to execute a larger workflow or process. These processes can consist of multiple tasks that are automated and can involve multiple systems.

The goal of orchestration is to streamline and optimize the execution of frequent, repeatable processes and thus to help easily manage complex tasks and workflows to save time, increase efficiency, and eliminate redundancies.

Types of VMSS Orchestration: Uniform and Flexible
Azure VMSS provides two types of orchestration modes: Uniform and Flexible.

Uniform Orchestration is the traditional model of managing VMs in a scale set. All instances in the set are identical, ensuring uniform performance and simplifying management.

Flexible Orchestration allows for different types of instances within the same scale set. This adds complexity to management but provides flexibility in managing heterogeneous workloads where different VM sizes may be needed.

What is Azure Load Balancer?

Load balancing refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers or resources.
Load balancer distributes inbound flows that arrive at the load balancer's front end to backend pool instances. These flows are according to configured load-balancing rules and health probes. The backend pool instances can be Azure Virtual Machines or instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set.

A public load balancer can provide outbound connections for virtual machines (VMs) inside your virtual network. These connections are accomplished by translating their private IP addresses to public IP addresses. Public Load Balancers are used to load balance internet traffic to your VMs.

An internal (or private) load balancer is used where private IPs are needed at the frontend only. Internal load balancers are used to load balance traffic inside a virtual network.

Diagram depicts public and internal load balancers directing traffic to web and business tiers.

Why use Azure Load Balancer?
With Azure Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services. Load balancer supports both inbound and outbound scenarios. Load balancer provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications.

Key scenarios that you can accomplish using Azure Standard Load Balancer include:

Load balance internal and external traffic to Azure virtual machines.
Pass-through load balancing which results in ultra-low latnecy.
Increase availability by distributing resources within and across zones.
Configure outbound connectivity for Azure virtual machines.
Use health probes to monitor load-balanced resources.
Employ port forwarding to access virtual machines in a virtual network by public IP address and port.
Load balance services on multiple ports, multiple IP addresses, or both.

Azure Virtual Machine scale-in policies
A Virtual Machine Scale Set deployment can be scaled-out or scaled-in based on an array of metrics, including platform and user-defined custom metrics. While a scale-out creates new virtual machines based on the scale set model, a scale-in affects running virtual machines that may have different configurations and/or functions as the scale set workload evolves.

The scale-in policy feature provides users a way to configure the order in which virtual machines are scaled-in, by way of three scale-in configurations:

Uniform orchestration
By default, Virtual Machine Scale Set applies this policy to determine which instance(s) will be scaled in. With the Default policy, VMs are selected for scale-in in the following order:

Balance virtual machines across availability zones (if the scale set is deployed in zonal configuration)
Balance virtual machines across fault domains (best effort)
Delete virtual machine with the highest instance ID
Users don't need to specify a scale-in policy if they just want the default ordering to be followed.

Balancing across availability zones or fault domains doesn't move instances across availability zones or fault domains. The balancing is achieved through deletion of virtual machines from the unbalanced availability zones or fault domains until the distribution of virtual machines becomes balanced.

NewestVM scale-in policy
This policy will delete the newest, or most recently created virtual machine in the scale set, after balancing VMs across availability zones (for zonal deployments). Enabling this policy requires a configuration change on the Virtual Machine Scale Set model.

OldestVM scale-in policy
This policy will delete the oldest created virtual machine in the scale set, after balancing VMs across availability zones (for zonal deployments). Enabling this policy requires a configuration change on the Virtual Machine Scale Set model.

Attach a DATA disk to a Windows VM using the Azure portal And Initialize It for Usage

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:26:14 +0000

This article describes the different types of Disks of a virtual machine (VM) and shows how to attach a new managed data disk to a Windows 11 virtual machine (VM), using the Azure portal.

Disk Types and Roles

There are three main disk types attachable to virtual machines in Azure, referred to as Disk roles. These are the OS disk, the data disk, and the temporary disk.

OS disk

OS stands for operating system, every virtual machine has one attached operating system disk. That OS disk has a pre-installed OS, which was selected when the VM was created. This disk contains the boot volume and OS information. User's data stored here is lost at vm shutdown or deletion.

Data disk

A data disk is a managed disk that's attached to a virtual machine to store user's data, 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. 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. Its persistent, user data stored here is retained at vm shutdown or vm deletion and can be reattached to other vm. The size of the VM determines how many data disks you can attach.

Temporary disk

Most VMs contain a temporary disk, which is not a managed disk. The temporary disk provides short-term storage for applications and processes, which is intended only to store data such as page files, swap files, or SQL Server tempdb. Data on the temporary disk may be lost during a maintenance event, when you redeploy a VM, or when you stop the VM. During a successful standard reboot of the VM, data on the temporary disk will persist. It's not persistent.

Add a data disk

-Sign in to the Azure portal.
-Create our windows 11 virtual machine.
_To create your windows virtual machine see my blog on how to
create a Windows 11 Virtual
Machine.https://dev.to/sangifeanyi/how-to-create-a-windows-11-
virtual-machine-2l8f
-Search for and select your Virtual machine from the list.

-On the Virtual machine pane, select Disks.

-On the Disks pane, select Create and attach a new disk.

In the drop-downs for the new disk, make the selections you want, and name the disk.

Select Apply to create and attach the new data disk to the VM.
This creates and attaches the new data disk to your vm as shown bellow ;

Initializing a new data disk

-Connect to the VM.
see my blog on how to
create a Windows 11 Virtual
Machine.https://dev.to/sangifeanyi/how-to-create-a-windows-11-
virtual-machine-2l8f

-Select the Windows Start menu inside the running VM and enter diskmgmt.msc in the search box or right click on the Windows icon and click on Disk Management.

-Disk Management recognizes that you have a new, uninitialized disk and the Initialize Disk window appears.

-Verify that the new disk is selected, then click OK to initialize it.

-Right click on the disk 2 below.

-From the drop down click on "new simple volume".

-The New Simple Volume Wizard window opens.

-Proceed through the wizard, keeping all of the defaults.
-You may choose to change your volume size when prompted or accept the default and click next to continue.

-To complete and close the wizard click Finish.

In the displayed volumes lists, you can see that our new volume has been initialized, highlighted Red.

Close Disk Management and open file explorer and select the new volume (F) drive.

As shown above, our new data disk is available and ready for use.

How To Create a Linux Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure - SSH Authentication

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:58:52 +0000

Azure virtual machines (VMs) enable you to create dedicated compute resources in minutes that can be used just like a physical desktop, laptop or server machine.

A Linux virtual machine offers flexibility, convenience, and the ability to explore and test the Linux operating system without making permanent changes to your primary operating system or hardware.

The process of creating Azure resources such as a virtual machine using the Azure portal involves the following steps:

SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL
Initiate the create wizard.
Assign resource-specific settings.
Validate the assigned settings.
Initiate the resource.
SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL

As a prerequisite, you sign up to create a free account if you don't have an Azure subscription. once your Azure subscription is created, sign in to the Azure portal using your mail and password to get started.

After you're successfully authenticated, the Azure portal's home page displays. This page provides links to core services, recently accessed and favorite resources, built-in management tools, and online documentation. It also serves as a convenient entry point into your Azure environment.

If the functionality you're looking for isn't present on the home page, you can locate it by using either the portal menu or the global search textbox. Both options are available on every portal page to which you navigate.

Initiate the Virtual machine Create wizard

__In the search bar, type "Virtual Machine"

__From the search results, select "Virtual Machine" from the list of resources.

__Click on the "Create" button.

Assign resource-specific settings.
The settings you assign at this stage will determine the properties of the virtual machine. Although you can modify most of the settings after deployment, there are some settings that are immutable, (not changeable, once deployed or created).

The settings the Azure VM create wizard displays in the Azure portal are grouped into the following pages:

Basics
Disks
Networking
Management
Monitoring
Advanced
Tags

You are directed to the "Basics" page.

Project Details
In the project details category, there are subscription and resource group.

__Subscription

An Azure subscription in simple terms means a membership or access pass to use Microsoft Azure. It's similar to subscribing to a service or signing up for a subscription plan. paid, free and trial options are available.

__Resource Group

A resource group in Azure is a container or folder that helps you organize and manage the different resources such as virtual machines and databases that you use in the Azure cloud.

Instance Details

__Give your virtual machine a name.

__In the region section, select the location you want your virtual machine to be.

A region refers to a specific geographical location with data centers that host infrastructure and services. Each region operates independently and is designed to be self-contained, with its own set of resources and infrastructure.

__Next, click on the drop-down to select your availability option and availability Zone.

__In Azure, a region can consist of three availability zones, known as Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3. Each zone has one or more data centers that are kilometers apart from each other.

Select your security type from the drop-down

_In the image section, select Ubuntu from the drop-down

__An image is an operating system. It's like a blueprint for creating virtual machines or computer systems. It has all the instructions and settings needed to set up a computer with a specific operating system and software.

__Select the size of your virtual machine from the drop-down or click on "See all sizes". Leave the other default information.

Administrator Account
__Select SSH Public key
__Enter the administrator's username for your virtual machine.
__Select Generate New Key Pair from the drop-down
__Leave the default given key pair name.

Inbound Port Rules

On the inbound port rules section, select "Allow selected ports" and then select SSH (22). This port will give you remote access to your physical work desktop computers.

Click on "Next: Disks>" to direct you to the Disk page.

Disk
__On the Disk page click on the OS disk type dropdown and select Standard SSD or any disk type of your choice as shown below. Leave the other columns as default.

__Leave the networking, management, monitoring and advanced pages as default. Skip to the Tag page.

Tag

__Give your tag a name.

Tags are a way to label and organize resources in cloud computing environments. The purpose of tags is to provide metadata or additional information that helps in managing, organizing, and tracking resources within a cloud infrastructure.

__Next, click on Review+create

At this point, the Azure portal will automatically invoke a validation task, which verifies that the options you've selected are valid. If you've misconfigured a setting or missed a required one, you'll have a chance to go back to the corresponding page to fix your mistake.

If validation is successful, select Create to initiate the deployment. Your Azure VM should be running shortly.

_When prompted, click on "Download private key and generate resource". This would generate a private key pair to your chosen folder in your local computer.

_Once the deployment is complete, click on "Go to resource".

Connect to Your Linux Virtual Machine.
__On the overview page of your virtual machine click "Connect".

__Your Azure VM should be running.

__Open PowerShell on your Laptop and input the command, Press enter key.

With the public key deployed on your Azure VM, and the private key on your local system, SSH into your VM using the IP address of your VM. In the following command;

ssh -i "C:\Users\DELL\Downloads\sangLinusKey_key.pem" sang@172.205.225.254

1. - user name
2. - key pair path
3. - IP address

_Enter "yes" and press enter.

__If your connection did not time out/close, you would be logged in to your virtual machine as shown below.

__Input some Linux commands to test your new system as shown below:

How To Create a Linux Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure - Password Authentication

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:01:26 +0000

Azure virtual machines (VMs) enable you to create dedicated compute resources in minutes that can be used just like a physical desktop, laptop or server machine.

A Linux virtual machine offers flexibility, convenience, and the ability to explore and test the Linux operating system without making permanent changes to your primary operating system or hardware.

The process of creating Azure resources such as a virtual machine using the Azure portal involves the following steps:

SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL
Initiate the create wizard.
Assign resource-specific settings.
Validate the assigned settings.
Initiate the resource.
SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL

Initiate the Virtual machine Create wizard

__In the search bar, type "Virtual Machine"

__From the search results, select "Virtual Machine" from the list of resources.

__Click on the "Create" button.

Assign resource-specific settings.

The settings you assign at this stage will determine the properties of the virtual machine. Although you can modify most of the settings after deployment, there are some settings that are immutable, (not changeable, once deployed or created).

The settings the Azure VM create wizard displays in the Azure portal are grouped into the following pages:

Basics
Disks
Networking
Management
Monitoring
Advanced
Tags

You are directed to the "Basics" page.

Project Details
In the project details category, there are subscription and resource group.

__Subscription

__Resource Group

A resource group in Azure is a container or folder that helps you organize and manage the different resources such as virtual machines and databases that you use in the Azure cloud.

Instance Details

__Give your virtual machine a name.

__In the region section, select the location you want your virtual machine to be.

__Next, click on the drop-down to select your availability option and availability Zone.

In Azure, a region can consist of three availability zones, known as Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3. Each zone has one or more data centers that are kilometers apart from each other.

Select your security type from the drop-down

_In the image section, select Ubuntu from the drop-down

An image is an operating system. It's like a blueprint for creating virtual machines or computer systems. It has all the instructions and settings needed to set up a computer with a specific operating system and software.

_Select the size of your virtual machine from the drop-down or click on "See all sizes". Leave the other default information.

Administrator Account

__Select Password
__Enter the administrator's username and password for your virtual machine. confirm the password to ensure it aligns.

Inbound Port Rules
On the inbound port rules section, select "Allow selected ports" and then select SSH (22). This port will give you remote access to your physical work desktop computers.

Click on "Next: Disks>" to direct you to the Disk page.

Disk
__On the Disk page click on the OS disk type dropdown and select Standard SSD or any disk type of your choice as shown below. Leave the other columns as default.

__Leave the networking, management, monitoring and advanced pages as default. Skip to the Tag page.

Tag

__Give your tag a name.

__Next, click on Review+create

If validation is successful, select Create to initiate the deployment. Your Azure VM should be running shortly.

_Once the deployment is complete, click on "Go to resource".

Connect to Your Linux Virtual Machine.

__On the overview page of your virtual machine click "Connect".

__Your Azure VM should be running.

Copy the command in the 'connect box'. This will give you:

__ssh username@ipaddress

__Open PowerShell on your Laptop and input the command, Press enter key.

_You would be asked if you want to continue connecting

_Enter "yes" and press enter.
.

__If your connection did not time out/close, you would be prompted to input your password.

__Input your password and press enter.

You would be logged in to your virtual machine as shown below.

__Input some Linux commands to test your new system as shown below:

How To Create a Windows 11 Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure

Asangwor Ossai Cletus Ifeanyi — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:15:06 +0000

Azure virtual machines (VMs) enable you to create dedicated compute resources in minutes that can be used just like a physical desktop, laptop or server machine. A Windows 11 virtual machine offers flexibility, convenience, and the ability to explore and test the latest version of Windows without making permanent changes to your primary operating system or hardware.

The process of creating Azure resources such as a virtual machine using the Azure portal involves the following steps:

SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL
Initiate the create wizard.
Assign resource-specific settings.
Validate the assigned settings.
Initiate the resource.

SIGN IN TO AZURE PORTAL

Initiate the Virtual machine Create wizard

a. In the search bar, type "Virtual Machine"

b. From the search results, select "Virtual Machine" from the list of resources.

c. Click on the "Create" button.

Assign resource-specific settings
The settings you assign at this stage will determine the properties of the virtual machine. Although you can modify most of the settings after deployment, there are some settings that are immutable, (not changeable, once deployed or created).

The settings the Azure VM create wizard displays in the Azure portal are grouped into the following pages:

Basics
Disks
Networking
Management
Monitoring
Advanced
Tags

You are directed to the "Basics" page.

Project Details
In the project details category, there are subscription and resource group.

a) Subscription
An Azure subscription in simple terms means a membership or access pass to use Microsoft Azure. It's similar to subscribing to a service or signing up for a subscription plan. paid, free and trial options are available.

b)Resource Group

A resource group in Azure is a container or folder that helps you organize and manage the different resources such as virtual machines and databases that you use in the Azure cloud.

Instance Details

a) Give your virtual machine a name

b) In the region section, select the location you want your virtual machine to be.

c) Next, click on the drop-down to select your availability option and availability Zone.

In Azure, a region can consist of three availability zones, known as Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3. Each zone has one or more data centers that are kilometers apart from each other.

_Select your security type from the drop-down
_In the image section, select Window 11 pro from the drop-down

__Select the size of your virtual machine from the drop-down or click on "See all sizes". Leave the other default information.

Administrator Account

__Enter the administrator's username and password for your virtual machine. confirm the password to ensure it aligns.

Inbound Port Rules

On the inbound port rules section, select "Allow selected ports" and then select RDP (3389). This port will give you remote access to your physical work desktop computers.

Click on "Next: Disks>" to direct you to the Disk page.

Disk

__On the Disk page click on the OS disk type dropdown and select Standard SSD or any disk type of your choice as shown below. Leave the other columns as default.

__Leave the networking, management, monitoring and advanced pages as default. Skip to the Tag page.

Tag

__Give your tag a name.

__Next, click on Review+create

__If validation is successful, select Create to initiate the deployment. Your Azure VM should be running shortly.

__Once the deployment is complete, click on "Go to resource".

Connect to Your Windows Virtual Machine.

Create a remote desktop connection to the virtual machine. These directions tell you how to connect to your Windows 11 operating system.

__On the overview page of your virtual machine click "Connect".

__Connect with RDP, leave the default settings and click the download RDP file.

__Open the downloaded RDP file and click "connect"

__Enter your username and password.

__Click yes when prompted.

Welcome!! You are connected to your Windows 11 Pro.