Azure Virtual Machine

Azure – You can now transfer files to your Azure virtual machine using Bastion (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / February 8, 2022 / , , , , ,

As you may already know, Azure Bastion allows you to connect to an Azure virtual machine using either SSH or RDP without the need to have a public IP address and management ports authorized on the network security group (NSG) (see https://t.co/UBOCpnMD2k). Since Azure Bastion has been made available, there has been some improvements to …

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Azure – You can now request to delete associated resources when deleting the virtual machine

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / March 17, 2022 / , , ,

EDIT adding the availability to do so when deleting VM As you know after deleting a virtual machine on Azure you need to delete the depend resources – virtual disk, network interface… Well, good news, you can now request to delete the associated resources when you delete a virtual machine. When you create a new …

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Azure – You can now get most frequent PowerShell/Azure Cli commands to manage virtual machine from the portal

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For those managing Azure resources mainly from the portal, especially virtual machines, and want to learn more about PowerShell or Azure Cli command to manage these virtual machines, you can now get the most frequent commands pre-configured for a specific virtual machine. To take advantage of this new learning capability, connect to your Azure portal …

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Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / December 21, 2021 / , , , , ,

If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM …

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Azure – Use of native client to connect to Azure Bastion is here

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure, Security / By / November 15, 2021 / , , , ,

If you work with Azure Virtual Machines you may and should already know Azure Bastion, the feature allowing you to connect directly to a virtual machine with RDP or SSH from the web browser without the need to have a public IP and have management ports opened. Well, good news the long awaited connection using …

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Azure – You can now enable Trusted Launch on Azure Virtual Machines (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / October 28, 2021 / , , , , ,

As you know, recent physical devices come with embedded security feature to help protect the operating system; features like TPM chipset or secure boot. Well, unfortunately until now these features were not available when running virtual machines on Azure. Good news, this now possible to turn on these security feature on Azure Virtual Machine. To …

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Azure – A new troubleshooting tool – VM Inspector – is available in preview

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / October 25, 2021 / , , ,

If you work with virtual machines on Azure you already know that sometime things go wrong and you need to troubleshoot what is happening with the resource. While there is already quite few troubleshooting tools available on Azure, you now have a new tool at your disposal called VM Inspector for Azure virtual machines. The …

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Windows 11 – Windows 11 is now available in preview in Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Virtual Machine

Leave a Comment / Azure Virtual Desktop, Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure, Windows / By / May 20, 2022 / , , , , , , ,

By now, you may already know that a new Windows version – Windows 11 – is coming by the end of this year. You may already know that you can deliver Windows 10 experience on the cloud using Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD – now known as Azure Virtual Desktop, AVD) and Azure Virtual Machine. Well, …

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Azure – You can now automatically upgrade the extension of your virtual machine (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By / February 17, 2021 / , , , ,

As you know you can add extensions (small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks) to your virtual machine running on Azure. Well, you can now get these extensions automatically upgrade when there is a new version. This is  a preview capability which means there is no SLA associated with it in case of …

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Azure – You can now use a managed storage account for the VM boot diagnostics

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / September 22, 2020 / , , ,

As you know, it is recommended to enable the virtual machine boot diagnostics to help gathering information when troubleshooting virtual machine boot issues (or to simply being able to see if the VM is booting up or has crashed with a blue screen). As you know, the boot diagnostics require the use of a storage …

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