PowerShell in Azure with example to create a VM

• Install Latest powershell from Microsoft website
• On PowerShell CLI
• Check Version
  • $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
• Get-InstalledModule -Name Az -AllVersions | select Name,Version
• Connect to account
  • Connect-AzAccount – it will prompt to enter code in URL to have you logged in CLI.

• Change Subscription 
  • Get-AzSubscription
  • Change to another one 
    • $context = Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionID xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-8c74-xxxxxxx
    • Set-AzContext $context

Creating a VM In powershell

• Get-AzResourceGroup - list of existing ResourceGroups
• New-AzResourceGroup -Name resGRP0405 -Location EastUS
• New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "resGRP0405" -Name "vm0405" -Location "EastUS" -VirtualNetworkName "vnet0405" -SubnetName "default" -SecurityGroupName "secGRP0405" -PublicIpAddressName "myipaddr" -OpenPorts 80,443,3389
• It will ask for a password for the VM which you want to set, provide the same.
• Stop-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "resGRP0405" -Name "vm0405"
• Start-AzVM -ResourceGroupName "resGRP0405" -Name "vm0405"