Step 1: Log in to portal.azure.com
Step 2: On the search researches,services and docs field, search for virtual machines. Select the grayed option and click enter and it will take you to the virtual machine's page.
Step 3: On the virtual machine's page click on +create
Step 4: On the basics tab, fill out your project details
Your project details has two basic components to it. Your subscription and your resource group.
Azure subscription: Provides you with authenticated and authorized access to Azure accounts
Azure resource group: It is a container to manage and aggregate resources in a single unit. It holds all your things for a specific project.
Step 5: Fill out your instance details.
Virtual machine name: It's a text-based label or title that helps you distinguish one virtual machine from another within a virtualization or cloud computing environment.
Region: a region refers to a geographical area or location where Microsoft has data centers.
Availability options: refer to the various strategies and technologies used to ensure the availability and reliability of IT systems, services, and data.
Availability zones: are a way for cloud providers to make their services more reliable and resilient. They do this by creating separate clusters of data centers within a region, so if one cluster has problems, the others can step in to keep things running smoothly.
Security type: refers to the method or protocol used to secure and protect data, systems, networks, or communications.
Image: typically refers to a pre-configured virtual machine (VM) or server template that contains a snapshot of an operating system, applications, and configurations.
VM architecture: This is the underlying structure and components that make up a virtualized computing environment.
Size: typically refers to the specification or configuration of various Azure resources, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and databases.
Step 6: Put in your username and password and confirm your password in your administrator account details.
Step 7: Fill in the Inbound port rules details.
- Public inbound ports: refers to a network port on a computer or device that is accessible from the internet or an external network.
You select your inbound port.
I selected RDP(3389)
Step 8: You scroll back to the top and select monitoring, it will take you to the monitoring page
Step 9: In the monitoring page, go to diagnostics and click on disable to avoid monitoring.
Step 10: Click on review + create. After it's done reviewing you click create.
Step 11: After the virtual machine is done deploying, you will click on connect at the top
Step 12: On the next tab, scroll down and in the Native RDP box, click on select.
Step 13: A pop up will appear on your right, on that pop up, click on DOWNLOAD RDP FILE and you are set.
Step 14: Go to your download folder and click to open the RDP file that has just being downloaded and put in the Username and Password you used in opening your virtual machine
And you are good to go!
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