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How to Capture and back up your Virtual Machine img using Azure Compute Galleries

tomia456 — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:25:16 +0000

First You will need to create Azure compute galleries

Step 1

Go to azure portal and Search for Azure compute galleries

Step 2

Click on Create

Step 3

Fill in the
Resource Group
Name
Region
*Description *(optional)

Step 4

Click on Review + Create

Step 5

Now go to your created Vm in azure portal
And Click on** Capture**

Step 6

Fill in your

Resource Group:
Target Azure Compute gallery:

Step 7

Under Target Vm image definition Click on Create New

Step 8

Create a new image name and click on OK

Step 9

Version Nr: Create a Version

Best Practices
*increase Replica
*Back up in more than Region

Step 10

Click on Review + Create

Step 11

Congratulations Your Vm img has been captured and stored

you can now revert back to this specific moment

That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

How to Create a Virtual Machine and RDp into it, install a Webserver and initialize a new usable Data Disk

tomia456 — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:17:51 +0000

Step 1

Go to search bar, Search and Click for Virtual Machine

Step 2

Click on Create

Step 3

Subscription: Select your Subscription
Select: or Create your Resource group
Virtual machine: Give Virtual machine a name (it must be a unique name)
Region: Select your Region (preferable east Us)
Availability Option: must be set at "Availability zone"
Zone: Click on the your Preferred zone(Zone 1)
Security type: standard
img: **windows Server 2019 Datacenter x64 Gen2
**size: Standard

Step 4

*Create a userName and passWord of your choice
*Inbound Port :Allow and choose HTTP(80) and RDP(3389)

Step 5

Select and Click on Review + Create

Step 6

Once Validation has been passed click on Create

Step 7
CLick and Select Go to Resource

Step 8

Select and Click on Connect

Step 9

Select and Download the RDP file

Step 10

Click and Open the downloaded file

Step 11

click and Connect to your vm windows

Step 12

Type in your userName and Password you created in step 4

Step 13
Congratulations You have Successfully Create a VM and RDP into it

                        **Stage 2**

"How to Install a Webserver into your VM"

Step 1

Go to your Vm Search bar and Search on PowerShell

Step 2

Right click and click on Run As Administrator

Step 3

Once PowerShell has been Opened type the following Cmd click on enter

install-windowsfeature web-server

Step 4
Now Wait till your Webserver has finished installing

Step 5

To truly check if webServer has successfully installed

Go to your Azure Portal on your web browser click on overview

Step 6

On the Networking area Copy the Public IP address

Step 7

open a new web Tab browser, Paste the IP address and click on enter to visit it

Step 8

Congratulations Your Webserver has successfully in Installed

                        **Stage 3**

How initialize a new usable Data Disk

Step 1

Go to your Azure Portal on your web browser click on Disk

Step 2

click on create a new disk

Step 3

Name your disk and select your preferred disk size

Step 4
Select and click on Save

Step 5

Congratulations your Disk as been successfully created

Step 6
To initialize your disk

go to your vM and Search on Disk Management and click on it

Step 7

a pop Up windows is gonna ask to initialize the newly created DISK 2 this click on OK

Step 8
Scroll to Disk 2 and right click on it then select "NEW Simple Volume"

Step 9

Continue to Click on next till you get to Format Partittion

Step 10

Once you get to Format Partittion

Rename Label Volume to your preferred name and Click on Next

Step 11

Click on finish

Step 12

Congratulation you´ve Create and initialized a Disk and can now be used

NOTE:
That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Create a policy assignment that requires tagging to a Microsoft Azure Resource

tomia456 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:53:33 +0000

                             Part 1

Creating a Policy

Step 1

Go to search bar, Search and Click on Policy

Step 2

Click and Select Assignments

Step 3

Click and Select Assign policy

Step 4

Click and Select the blue beside the policy definition

Step 5

Search and Select your desire policy in the case i´ll be choosing Resource Tagging

Step 6

Select and Click on Add to assign the policy

Step 7

Fill the your corresponding Tag name and Tag values i.e
Name: Animal
Value: Dog

Step 8

Select and CLick Review + Create

Step 9

Select and Click Create

Step 10

Congratulations

Your policy has been created and can now be assigned to any resource of your choice

NOTE:
That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Manage and Assigning a Specific role To a Resource group in Azure

tomia456 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:48:44 +0000

*Manage and Assigning a Specific role prevents an authenticated user from gaining and unauthorized job role is an azure Account It allows the authenticated User to access only specific role he/she is assigned to in order to perform their job *

Step 1

Go to search bar, Search and Click on Resource Group

Step 2

Select and Click on the desire Resource Group you would like to lock

Step 3

To the left side of the screen click and Select Access Control

Step 4

Click and Select Add

Step 5

Select and Click on Assign Role

Step 6

Select Job function and Click on Next

Step 7

Pick or Search for your suited Assign Role and Click next

In my case i´ll be showing **Virtual Machine Contributor*

Step 8

Click on Select members and on the right slide pop up window add member with Email then click Select

Step 9

Click and Select Review + Assign

Step 10

Congratulations

Your role has been Assigned now the assigned user will only be able work within his job bracket

NOTE:
That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Enjoy!!!!!

How to lock your Resources on Azure to prevent loss of Data or Files

tomia456 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:14:06 +0000

Step 1

Go to search bar, Search and Click on Resource Group

Step 2

Select and Click on the desire Resource Group you would like to lock

Step 3

On the left hand side under Settings Select and Click on LOCK

Step 4

Select and Click on the Add Icon

Step 5

Lock Name - Create a unique Lock Name
Lock Type - Should be set on Delete
you can either leave a Note or Not

Step 6

Click on refresh

Congratulations!! you`ve successfully added a lock on your Resource group

             **Test on locked File**

Step 1

Go to the locked Resource Group

Step 2

Select and Click on a Resource in the Resource Group

Step 3

Try to delete the file by clicking on the delete button

Step 4

Complete the Deleting process by Coping the file name in the Text Box

Step 5

Once you get the Error Pop up its means your Resource was successfully locked and can´t be deleted

Congratulations

NOTE:
That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Enjoy!!!!!

How to Create a storage account ,Upload Created file with Chat-gp to share on Azure using Azure Storage

tomia456 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:33:12 +0000

Step 1

Go to search bar, Search and Click on Storage Account

Step 2
Click on Create Storage Account

Step 3

Subscription -Choose your prefer Subscription

Resource group -Create or Select a resource group[mine was the MarchworkFlow]

Storage Name -Create a unique storage name

Region - East us

leave the rest at Default setting then Click on Review

Step 4

Click on Create

Step 5

Click on the storage Created

Step 6

On the Left side of your Screen Click on container

Step 7

Create a new Container by Clicking the Add button

Step 8

A window will pop on the right hand of the Screen

Name -Create a unique Name

Public Access Level - Blob ( So file can be read by anonymous access request)

Then Click Create

Step 9

Once the Container has been created Click and Select ir

Step 10

Click and Select Upload to upload your unstructured Files i.e Picture,Document e.t.c

Step 11

A window will pop on the right

1) You either upload by dragging your file from your Desktop in upload section

2) By Manually Clicking upload and select your file to upload

Step 12

Go to your web browser search and visit https://chat-gpt.org/

Step 13

Write in the chat box and command and Click on send (i.e Write a love letter to your Spouse)

Step 14

Click on download

Step 15

Click on pdf to Save and download file

Step 12

Drag the file or Upload it manually , Then Select and Click Upload

Step 13

Click and select the File Uploaded

Step 14

A domain will be Create for to share with authorized personal.
To do that Copy and Share the link

NOTE:
That will be the end Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Enjoy!!!!!

How to create a Key Vault and add Key, Secret and Certificate in Microsoft Azure

tomia456 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:44:48 +0000

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that securely stores and manages application secrets in a centralized cloud location where it is safeguarded by industry-standard algorithms and hardware security modules in order to control access, permission and login.
The key vault securely keep sensitive information like keys, secrets, certificates, passwords etc.
Azure key vaults are created and managed through the Azure portal.
In this Quick Start, we will concentrate on creating a Key Vault, then add Key, Secret and Certificate to it.

Step 1

Go to search bar, Click and Search for KEY VAULT

Step 2

Click on 'Create key vault'

Step 3

Subscription -Choose your prefer Subscription

Resource group -Create or Select a resource group[mine was the MarchworkFlow]

Key vault name - Choose a unique name

Region - East us

Pricing tier - Standard

Soft delete - Is always automatically enabled, to enable user to recover permanently delete a key vault and secrets durimg the retention period. .

Days to retain deleted vaults - The retention period is 7 to 90 days. This means if you purposefully or mistakenly delete a key vault, you can recover it within 7 - 90 days, depending on the

Purge protection - It enforces mandatory retention period and prevents the permanent deleting of key vaults prior to the retention period select and click enable purge protection.

Step 4

Select and Click 'Review + Create'

Step 5
Select and Click 'Create'

Step 6
Select and Click 'Go to resource'

Step 7
Key Vault is created and ready to use

Step 8

CLick and select key on the right hand side as indicated in the diagram below

Step 9
Select and Click 'Generate/Import'

Step 10

Name - Choose a unique name

key type - left as RSA

RSA key size - 2048

Enable 'Set activation date' and 'Set expiration date' to your preference Enabled - Yes

Tags - This is optional you can use to create tags or not
Click on 'Tags' to choose a Tag Name and Tag Value for the project. E.g Tag Name - Windows and Tag Value - Hp

Step 11
Select and Click 'Create'

Step 12
Congratulations you`ve successfully created a Key

Step 13

Now to create Secrets **in key vault
Click on 'Secrets**'

Step 14
Select and Click 'Generate/Import'

Step 15

**Name **Create a unique name

'Set activation date' and 'Set expiration date' to your preference

Enabled - Yes

Click on 'Create'

Step 16

Congratulations you`ve successfully created a Secret

Finally to create Certificatein key vault
Click on 'Certificate'

Step 18
Select and Click 'Generate/Import'

Step 19

Method of Certificate Creation - You can either Generate one or Import an existing certificate

Certificate Name - Create a unique name for your Certificate

Type - Should be left at defualt ( self-Signed Certificate)

Subject - Subject would be a unique Domain to access your certificate and must be written this way "CN=tommysCerti12c3.com"

Validity Period - adjust to your peference

Content Type - leave at default

*Lifetime Action Type *- Automatic renew at the given percentage lifetime

Percentage lifetime - adjust to your perference

Step 20
Select and Click 'Create'

Step 21
Congratulations!!
on completing creating the 3 Main Components of Creating a key Fault
which are the** key , Secret , Certificate
**

NOTE: Make sure to always delete Azure Resource when they are not in use

Enjoy!!!!!

HOW TO DEPLOY MICROSOFT AZURE TRANSLATOR COGNITIVE SERVICE

tomia456 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:17:23 +0000

WHAT IS AZURE COGNITIVE SERVICE?
Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) services that help developers build cognitive intelligence into applications without having direct AI or data science skills or knowledge. They are available through REST APIs and client library SDKs in popular development languages. Azure Cognitive Services enables developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications with cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, and analyze

step 1
Go to search bar and search for cognitive services and click on it.

step 2
Go to Translator and click on Create

step 3
-Fill in the boxes. Choose your subscription.
-Create a resource group[mine was the MarchworkFlow].

-Choose a region[East us preferrable]

-Input a globally unique name[Ttranslatemarch]

-Choose a pricing tier of your choice.
-Click on Review + create

step 4
Ensure validation passes, then click create

step 5
Click on Go to resource

step 6
The MICROSOFT AZURE TRANSLATOR COGNITIVE SERVICE screen will be loaded up

step 7
Select the language you wish to translate to,type a sentence and watch how the AZURE TRANSLATOR COGNITIVE translate your sentence automatically to desired language

Note: Once you get an instant translate then you know the cognitive service is now working

Enjoy!!!!!

HOW TO CREATE A LINUX VIRTUAL MACHINE ON MICROSOFT AZURE

tomia456 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:43:35 +0000

STEP 1
login to your Microsoft azure account and navigate to Create Resource

STEP 2
Click! And select Virtual Machine

STEP 3

*Select your Subscription
*Select or Create your Resource group
*Give Virtual machine a name (it must be a unique name)
*Select your Region (preferable east Us)
*Availability Option must be set at "Availability zone"
*Click on the your Preferred zone
*Security type: standard
*img: select any version of Ubuntu for a linux Virtual Machine

STEP 4

Size should be set depending on your Budget

STEP 5

ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT
Administrator type : Password
UserName: azureuser
password: ********

STEP 6

Select inbound port as SSH(22)
Then click and select "Review + Create"

STEP 7
Click and Select "Create"

STEP 8

Click and Select "Go to Resource"

STEP 9

Click one Connect **on the top Left side and Select **SSH

STEP 10

Copy Command Text from line 2 and Paste in space bar 3

STEP 11
Copy Command Text 4 and Then go to your main Pc and open powerShell software

STEP 12
Once in powerShell paste the Command Text 4 into power shell

STEP 13

1) Delete "-i chmod 400 .pem"
2) leave ssh azureuser@4.236.186.54 and click enter

STEP 13
PowerShell is going to prompt a command asking you to connect to serve Virtual Machine type yes and Click ENTER

Step 14 Step
PowerSHell is going to ask you to Type in password for your virtual machine you created in step 5
you can type in the password manually or user shortcut command key
" strg V" in Windows and in Mac "cmd V"
Note
password may not show when you type in the powerShell so make sure the password is correct and then press enter

FINAL STEP
Congratulations You are now connected to your Linux virtual Machine