Virtual Machine In Windows Azure Step by Step - Part One

Step 1: Login to Windows Azure.



Step 2: By login in to Windows Azure, select "NEW” at the bottom of the window.



Step 3: Under "COMPUTE”, select "Virtual Machine” and select "Quick Create”.

Here, I am going to create Quick Create when we need only one virtual machine for our solution.



You will see the following figure,

DNS: The DNS name must contain between 3 and 15 characters. The name can contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens. The name must start with a letter and must end with a letter or a number.

Image: Choose an Operating System image from the drop down menu; here I want to show "Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter."



Size: In size, you can give a size to your virtual machine from different sizes in the dropdown menu.



User Name: User Name is mandatory for the VM, it would be used at the time of credentials. Here I gave "pandit.”

Password: Give the password for logging in to the virtual machine.

Region: I’m from India, so I am going to select "East Asia.”

Hit on check mark to create a virtual machine (shown in the rectangle).



After the creation of the virtual machine, we need to connect it where we can access it remotely. Select your virtual machine and click on "Connect” button.

A file with extension ".rdp” will be downloaded.



It will display a message for the file.

Open the downloaded RDP file.



Go to the downloaded RDP file and open it. Remote Desktop is enabled by default.

Click on "Connect” button.



After clicking on connect button it will start the remote connection.



Now, we need to complete security by entering credentials, user name and password which we setup during creation of the virtual machine.

Click on "OK” button.



Click on "Yes” button.



After entering your credentials click on "yes" and you will be connected with your Virtual Machine.



Here is the Dashboard.



Make sure you don't forget to shut down your VM after completing your work. You can shut down it from shutdown option as in the following:



I hope you enjoyed this article. Stay tuned for part two of the article series.

Thanks for reading.