This guide covers options for using PowerShell to create a SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine (VM). For a streamlined Azure PowerShell example that relies on default values, see the [SQL Server on ...

Powershell script to Demo/Test an Azure VM Availability Set during VM creation. The attached PS script creates Azure Storage Account, Cloud Service, 2 VMs under the same Cloud Service, assigning each ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

Although Hyper-V checkpoints are not a substitute for backups, they do have their place. For example, some people like to create virtual machine checkpoints prior to installing updates. That way, if ...

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

This article presents how to prepare an environment in Azure IaaS (Resource Group, Cloud Service, VMNET, VM …) from the beginning and explain Azure basic concept: 1x Azure subscription (for reminder ...