Exam Prep (70-533): Virtual Machines - Powershell Commands

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Get details about the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter gallery Image

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$imagefamily = "Windows Server 2012 R2Datacenter"

Get-AzureVMImage | where { $_.ImageFamily -eq$imagefamily }

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Deploy a new, basic Windows VM

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New-AzureQuickVM –Windows–ServiceName "MySvc1" –name "MyWinVM1" –ImageName $image–Password $adminPasswd

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Deploy a new, basic Linux VM

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New-AzureQuickVM –Linux–ServiceName "MySvc2" –name "MyLxVM1" –ImageName $image–LinuxUser $user –Password $adminPasswd –Location $dclocation

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Deploy a new, large VM

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New-AzureQuickVM –Windows –InstanceSize"Large" –ServiceName "MySvc3" –name "MyWinVM1"–ImageName $images[4].imagename –Password $adminPasswd –location $dclocations[0].name

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Cmdlets used (together) for complex VM deployments

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New-AzureVMConfig

Add-AzureProvisioningConfig

Add-AzureDataDisk

Add-AzureEndpoint

New-AzureVM

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Create a Storage account

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New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName"myexamtest" -Location $location

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CmdLet for showing Blob endpoint URL (https) and Container names

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Get-AzureStorageContainer

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Deploy a new Windows VM, Extra small size with an additional 50GB data disk on LUN 0. Set the local Windows admin username and password

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New-AzureVMConfig -Name "MyVM1"-InstanceSize ExtraSmall -ImageName $image | Add-AzureProvisioningConfig-Windows -Password $adminPassword | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew-DiskSizeInGB 50 -DiskLabel 'datadisk1' -LUN 0 | New-AzureVM –ServiceName"MySvc1"

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Display all Azure VM Instance sizes

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Get-AzureRoleSize

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Display information on the Azure Subscriptions

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Get-AzureSubscription

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Change Azure Subscription

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Set-AzureSubscription-SubscriptionName "Development"

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Set default Azure subscription

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Set-AzureSubscription–DefaultSubscription "MySub"

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Display Azure Datacenter regions

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Get-AzureLocation

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Find out if an Azure Cloud Service name already exists

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Test-AzureName -Service -Nametest

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Show Cloud Services in Subscription

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Get-AzureService

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Set Azure Subscription storage account

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Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName$subscriptioname '

-CurrentStorageAccountName $storageAccount

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Switch used to override VHD locations

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New-AzureVMConfig .... -MediaLocation

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Uploads a service certificate for the specified cloud service

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Add-AzureCertificate

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Generate a new SSH Key for a Linux VM

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New-AzureSSHKey

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Disable Windows Updates

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Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -DisableAutomaticUpdates…

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Set time zone to London

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dd-AzureProvisioningConfig -TimeZone"London" …

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Deploy a Certificate

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Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -X509Certificates $cert

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Change VM local password on first logon

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Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -ResetPasswordOnFirstLogon

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Shutdown a VM

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Stop-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName

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Shutdown all VMs in a Cloud Service and deallocate Public VIP

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName | Stop-AzureVM -Force

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PowerShell switch to keep Cloud Service VIP when last VM shutdown

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-StayProvisioned

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Power on a Virtual Machine

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Start-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName

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Reboot an Azure Virtual Machine

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Restart-AzureVM -ServiceName "myservice1" –Name"MyVM"

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Delete an Azure Virtual Machine AND the virtual disks

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Remove-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name$vmName -DeleteVHD

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Modify an existing Azure Virtual Machine

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Update-AzureVM

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Delete a Cloud Service and all Virtual Machines

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Remove-AzureService -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName -Force -DeleteAll

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Display Virtual Machine Endpoints

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $service -Name $VMName | Get-AzureEndpoint

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Retrievethe URI of the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) https listener

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Get-AzureWinRMUri

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Save RDP file to C:\temp

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Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName $servicename -Name $VMName -LocalPath"c:\temp\test.rdp"

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Open RDP connection from PowerShell

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Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $VMName -Launch

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Prevent the WinRM, SSH and RDP endpoints from being added when deploying a Virtual Machine

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Add-AzureProvisioningConfig

-NoWinRMEndpoint

-NoSSHEndpoint

-NoRDPEndpoint

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Disable the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service on https, instead of enabling it by default.

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New-AzureQuickVM -DisableWinRMHttps

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Upload a virtual hard disk (in .vhdfile format) from an on-premises virtual machine to a blob in a cloud storageaccount in Azure

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Add-AzureVhd -Destinationhttp://mytestaccount.blob.core.windows.net/vhdstore/win7baseimage.vhd -LocalFilePathC:\vhd\MyWin7Image.vhd -NumberOfUploaderThreads 32

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Download a VHD from a BLOB to a local path and overwrite

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Save-AzureVhd-Source http://mytestaccount.blob.core.windows.net/vhdstore/win7baseimage.vhd -LocalFilePathC:\vhd\MyWin7Image.vhd -Overwrite

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Add a disk to a VM

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Add-AzureDataDisk

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Adds new disk to the Azure disk repository.

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Add-AzureDisk

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Capturesand saves the image of a stoppedAzure virtual machine

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Save-AzureVMImage

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Capture a Specialized image

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Save-AzureVMImage -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName -ImageName$ImageName -ImageLabel $imageLabel -OSState Specialized

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Capture a sysprepped image

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Save-AzureVMImage -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName -ImageName$ImageName -ImageLabel $imageLabel -OSState Generalized

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Updatethe Data Disk properties on the VM Image

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Set-AzureVMImageDataDiskConfig -DiskConfig

..

Update-AzureVMImage

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How to check if disk attached, corrupted, size in GB, label, location, disk name and OS type

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Get-AzureDisk

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Find an Azure Image with a specific label

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Get-AzureVMImage | where { $_.Label -match"myimage-label2"}

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Associate a VHD as a Windows boot disk

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Add-AzureDisk -DiskName "MyWinDisk" -MediaLocation "http://yourstorageaccount.blob.core.azure.com/vhds/winserver-system.vhd" -Label "BootDisk" -OS "Windows"

(note -DiskName)

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Add OS image to a repository

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Add-AzureVMImage -ImageName imageName -MediaLocation http://yourstorageaccount.blob.core.azure.com/container/sampleImage.vhd -LabelimageLabel -OS Windows

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Create new data disk and add to existing VM

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Get-AzureVM "myservice" -Name"MyVM" |
Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB 128 -DiskLabel "main" -LUN0 |
Update-AzureVM

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Add existing disk from repository to a VM (i.e. My Disks)

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Get-AzureVM "myservice" -Name"MyVM" |
Add-AzureDataDisk -Import -DiskName "MyExistingDisk" -LUN 0 |
Update-AzureVM

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Updates a virtual machine by attaching an existing data disk from a storage location

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Get-AzureVM "myservice" -Name"Database" `|
Add-AzureDataDisk -ImportFrom -MediaLocation ` "https://mystorage.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/MyExistingDisk.vhd" -DiskLabel "main" -LUN 0 |
Update-AzureVM

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Copy Blobs between Storage accounts

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$blob = Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -SrcContainer vhds -SrcBlob "xxxx.vhd" -DestContainer vhds-DestBlob "xxxx.vhd" -DestContext $destContext

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Remove an Image from the repository

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Remove-AzureVMImage -ImageName MyOSImage –DeleteVHD

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Remove a disk from the repository

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Remove-AzureDisk -DiskName "MyDataDisk" –DeleteVHD

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List VM extensions

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Get-AzureVMExtension

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How to check if VM Agent installed

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$x = Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $vmName

$x.vm.ProvisionGuestAgent

True

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Reset VM password

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Get-AzureVM –ServiceName$service –Name $VMName | Set-AzureVMAccessExtension –UserName–Password | Update-AzureVM

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Fix VM RDP settings

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Get-AzureVM –ServiceName$service –Name $VMName | Set-AzureVMAccessExtension | Update-AzureVM

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Enable BGInfo

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Get-AzureVM –ServiceName –Name | Set-AzureVMBGInfoExtension | Update-AzureVM

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Deploy a custom script

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Set-AzureVMCustomScriptExtension -FileUri $script -Run myscriptname.ps1

-FileUri = https Blob path

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Upload a Desired State Configuration script to Azure blob storage

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Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration .\MyConfiguration.ps1 -ConfigurationArchivePath .\MyConfiguration.ps1.zip

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Configure Puppet server

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Set-AzureVMPuppetExtension -PuppetMasterServer$puppetServer

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Configure Chef server

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No PowerShellcommands for Chef

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Add an Endpoint to a VM

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName|

Add-AzureEndpoint -Name "SQL" -Protocol tcp -LocalPort 1433-PublicPort 1433 |

Update-AzureVM

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Remove an Endpoint from a VM

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName| Remove-AzureEndpoint -Name "SQL" | Update-AzureVM

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Display Endpoints for a VM

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName| Get-AzureEndpoint

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Add a VM to an existing Load Balancer

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "CanITProCamp"-Name "WEBFE02" |

Add-AzureEndpoint -Name "HTTP" -Protocol"TCP" -PublicPort 80 -LocalPort 80

-LBSetName "Web-Farm" -DefaultProbe | Update-AzureVM

(-LBSetName)

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Update all of the endpoints in a load-balanced set to use a different port number

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Set-AzureLoadBalancedEndpoint -ServiceName "MyService" -LBSetName"LBSet1" -Protocol tcp -LocalPort 80 -ProbeProtocolTCP -ProbePort8080

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Updatean existing endpoint assigned to a virtual machine

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "MyService" -Name"MyVM" |

Set-AzureEndpoint -Name "Web" -PublicPort 443 -LocalPort443 -Protocol "tcp" |

Update-AzureVM

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Create annew, empty configuration object for an access control list (ACL)

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$acl = New-AzureAclConfig

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Add rule to an ACL

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Set-AzureAclConfig -AddRule -ACL $acl -Order 0-Action Permit -RemoteSubnet "1.2.3.4/32" -Description "AllowApp01"

(Permit / Deny)

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Apply ACL to HTTP Endpoint

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName Web01 |

Set-AzureEndpoint -ACL $acl -Name "HTTP" -Protocol TCP-PublicPort 80 -LocalPort 80 |

Update-AzureVM

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Createa new Cloud Service 'Reserved IP' in the Azure Subscription

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New-AzureReservedIP -ReservedIPName examtest -Label examtestIP-Location 'North Europe'

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Show the Reserved VIP of a Cloud Service

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Get-AzureReservedIP -ReservedIPName examtest

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Delete a Static VIP on a Cloud Service

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Remove-AzureReservedIP

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Configure a VM to use a PIP

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName|

Set-AzurePublicIP -PublicIPName "PassiveFTP" |

Update-AzureVM

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Display PIP

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Get-AzurePublicIP

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Get all VMs in AV set

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(Get-AzureService).servicename| foreach {Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $_ } | select name,AvailabilitySetName

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Scale up or down a VM

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$newSize = "Basic_A0"

Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "examtest" -Name"exam-test-vm1" |

Set-AzureVMSize $newSize |

Update-AzureVM

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Change OS disk to ReadOnly caching mode

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "examtest" -Name"exam-test-vm1" |

Set-AzureOSDisk -HostCaching ReadOnly |

Update-AzureVM

(doesn't need a reboot)

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Change Data disk for LUN 0 to ReadOnly caching mode

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Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "examtest" -Name"exam-test-vm1" |

Set-AzureDataDisk -LUN 0 -HostCaching ReadOnly |

Update-AzureVM

(doesn't need a reboot)

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Change Cloud Service to LRS replication type

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Set-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountNameportalvhds48lx0yczcrqn8 -Type Standard_LRS

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Display info about Storage account

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Get-AzureStorageAccount

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Get Storage account primary key

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Get-AzureStorageKey-StorageAccountName portalvhds48lx0yczcrqn8

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Azure Files - createSMB File Share called 'share'

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$ctx = New-AzureStorageContext $storage $accountKey

$s = New-AzureStorageShare$shareName -Context $ctx

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Add BitLocker to data disk (OS disk not supported)

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Add-WindowsFeature BitLocker -IncludeManagementTools

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Configure Azure Diagnostics on initial deployment of a VM

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Set-AzureVMDiagnosticsExtension -DiagnosticsConfigurationPath $configPath-StorageContext $storageContext -Version '1.*'