The following steps below are how to create a virtual machine
- Go to portal.azure.com and login, the search for virtual machine and click on it.
- Then go to the basic tab, there are project details. and since there is a subscription click on create new to create a new resource group called "februaryworkload".
- instance details, give the Virtual machine a name. here, it was name "UgonnaVM". Then, select region and availability zones appropriately.
- In image, select windows 11 pro. . leave the rest as default and go to administrators account.
- In Administrators account, create username and password for the VM that is universally unique to you (must show green).
- In inbound port rules, in select inbound ports, select RDP(3389)
- check licensing
- In the basic bar, go to monitoring disable diagnostic
- in the basic bar, click on tag assuming the VM being created is for the sales unit it means that every cost element associated with the VM is the responsibility of the sales unit.
- in the basic bar, click on review and create
- then validation will be passed(highlighted green)
- then click on create (highlighted red) in the above image
- the below image shows when the deployment is complete.
- in other to increase the inbound time to avoid timing out, click on the resource button and increase the default timeout to be 30 mins and click on save
- in other to connect on the virtual machines we just created, click on connect as shown in the image below 16.In Native RDP click select 17 wait for it to be configured
- click on download RDP file
- go to download and click on UgonnaVM
- In remote desktop connection select connect
- The image would would pop up so you can enter your password
- the image that comes out is an windows 11 image