Deploying a windows 11 VM, WIndows Server & a Linux VM



This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by daniel shaibu

Deploying a windows 11 VM

  1. open the azure account and search for virtual machine in the search bar.
  2. Click on create
  3. On the basic tab, at the section of resource group, click on create new if you haven’t created any before.
  4. Give the virtual machine a name and also select a region
  5. In the availability, we will be selecting No infrastructure redundancy required because we are using a free trail account
  6. select image ( the image means your operating system). we will be selecting window 10 or window 11.
  7. create the username and password
  8. Select the Inbound port rules, for windows it will be RDP but for LINUX it will be SSH and if you want to check anything online then you select HTTP as the protocol
  9. Click on confirm then review and create
  10. Locate the monitoring section, disable diagnostic
  11. in the tag section fill the necessary value
  12. Review and create
  13. Go to resource
  14. Click on the IP address
  15. increase the timeout and save
  16. Go to the overview page
  17. click on connect
  18. Download RDP file( if you are using a windows you just need o download directly but if you are using a Mac you need to download a windows app)
  19. Click on connect
  20. Supply the user/password
  21. Your virtual machine is ready


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by daniel shaibu