Powershell script to list the .Net core version in an Azure Virtual Machine using Invoke-AzVmRunCommand

Tasked with finding a script to list the installed .NET Core versions in an Azure VM within a locked down environment, we tried multitude option and ended up with the below provided script which helps to run a script using the Invoke-AzVMRunCommand. This script uses Azure PowerShell 7.3.1 or later and requires latest version of …

Restore Virtual Machine from Blob Snapshot in Azure (Resource Manager)

Overview Script will help you to restore a virtual machine from the existing blob snapshots. Although some familiarity with the Azure Portal would be beneficial, however, for the benefit of everyone, a step by step guide in this document is provided. Script workflow: Script executes Reads the input file which is a comma separated .CSV …

Create a VM from existing VHD file

A tricky task with creating an Azure ARM Virtual machine specially from an existing VHD.   We had immense trouble getting this right for a project, until we managed to find the right script to be used for the purpose. There are 2 scenarios in which you will create a Virtual Machine from a VHD …

PowerShell to create and assign Tags to Azure ARM Virtual Machines

A script we have developed for creation of the tags for azure VM.   We use an input file to update the tags and as a test, I had done it with upto 7 tags, however, you can have a maximum of 15 tags assigned to the resources in Azure. This script however, is used to …

Powershell script to deploy virtual machine with multiple vNIC in Azure ARM

We had a requirement from one of the teams to deploy a virtual machine with multiple NIC associated with a single Virtual Machine.  The Azure portal does not provide any option to either associate a NIC ( Network Interface Card) to a Virtual Machine nor does it allow us to associate or create a Virtual …

Script to Delete Azure ARM Virtual Machine

We had a request to create a script which will take care of deleting a Virtual Machine from Azure subscription and perform the clean up of all the associated objects as a deleting the virtual machine from the azure portal will remove the VM object alone and does not delete the disks, vNICs, etc. We …