Step-by-Step: Creating VMs in Microsoft Azure Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal.

The hardware Azure uses for these VMs comes from several generations of datacenter hardware. You’ll still need to pick and choose the VM type you want, because they do have different ...

Deploying VMs using the Microsoft Azure Portal takes just a few mouse clicks.

Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

But creating and managing your own image pipeline to build those custom images means running extra infrastructure and managing extra software. Azure Image Builder offers you that as a cloud service.

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

How to attach ISO file to Azure VM? You can’t make an Azure VM from an ISO file. You can only create VMs from VHDs, Managed Disks, or Managed Disk Images/Snapshots.

Integrating DSC into Azure and creating some management tooling around it transformed DSC into something that was easier to use and worked great in the Azure cloud environment. Automation Automation ...

Using PowerShell and a community module, you can quickly and easily build and maintain Azure DevTest Labs. In this article, we're going to cover how to use a freely available PowerShell module called ...

Azure Backup can be configured from the Recovery Services vault panel, or from a VM panel in the Azure management portal. If you want to back up multiple VMs, it’s quicker to use the Recovery Services ...