Lab: Azure resource management with PowerShell

Scenario

You’re a system administrator for the London branch office of Adatum Corporation. You need to evaluate the Microsoft Azure platform to run virtual machines (VMs) and other resources for your company. As part of your evaluation, you also want to test PowerShell administration of Azure-based resources.

Objectives

After completing this lab, you’ll be able to:

Install the Az module for Windows PowerShell.
Run and use the Azure Cloud Shell environment.
Manage Azure VMs and disks by using PowerShell.

Estimated time: 60 minutes

Lab setup

Virtual machines: LON-DC1 and LON-CL1

Username: Adatum\Administrator

Password: Pa55w.rd

For this lab, you’ll use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, complete the following steps:

Open LON-DC1 and sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa55w.rd.
Repeat step 1 for LON-CL1.

Exercise 1: Activating the Azure subscription and installing the PowerShell Az module

Scenario 1

You need to make sure that you activate your trial Azure subscription and install the Az module for Windows PowerShell.

The main tasks for this exercise are:

Activate your Azure subscription by using the Azure pass voucher.
Install the Azure Az module for PowerShell.

Task 1: Activate your Azure subscription by using Azure pass voucher

On LON-CL1, open the Microsoft Edge browser and navigate to https://www.microsoftazurepass.com/.
Sign in with the Microsoft account that you want to use for your trial Azure subscription.
Use the Azure pass code provided by your instructor or lab hosting provider.
Ensure that the Subscriptions page displays Azure Pass - Sponsorship with an Active status and that you have a balance of 50 USD.

Task 2: Install the Azure Az module for PowerShell

On LON-CL1, start the PowerShell 7.1 environment.
Check your version of PowerShell by using $PSVersionTable.PSVersion.
Set the execution policy to RemoteSigned for the current user.
From the PowerShell Gallery, install the Az module for the current user by using the Install-Module command.
Use Connect-AzAccount to sign in to your Azure subscription.

Exercise 2: Using Azure Cloud Shell

Scenario 2

To work with other Azure resources such as Azure VMs, you need to create an Azure resource group. You decide to use Azure Cloud Shell to perform this task.

The main task for this exercise is:

Use Azure Cloud Shell to create a resource group.

Task 1: Use Azure Cloud Shell to create a resource group

Check your Azure tenant in the Azure portal to ensure that no Azure VMs or storage accounts exist.
Start the Azure Cloud Shell environment.
Check your subscription by using the Get-AzSubscription command.
Use the Get-AzResourceGroup command to verify that no resource groups exist.
Switch to the Bash environment in Azure Cloud Shell and then use az account list and az resource list to check subscriptions and resource groups. Switch back to the PowerShell environment in Azure Cloud Shell.
Use the New-AzResourceGroup command to create a new resource group in the West Europe region. Name the resource group YourNameM9, and replace YourName with your first name.

Exercise 3: Managing Azure resources with Azure PowerShell

After you create the Azure subscription and resource group, you want to use PowerShell to create an Azure VM based on a Windows Server 2019 image.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

Create an Azure VM by using PowerShell.
Add a disk to Azure VM by using PowerShell.
Delete the Azure resources.

Task 1: Create an Azure VM by using PowerShell

In the PowerShell 7.1 window, use the Get-Credential command to store admin credentials for the new Azure VM in the $cred variable. Do not use Admin or Administrator as the username and choose a complex, at least 8 character-long password that includes lower case letters, upper case letters, digits, and at least one special character.

In the PowerShell 7.1 window, use the following command to define the VM parameters (replace the <resource-group-name> placeholder with the name of the resource group you created in the previous exercise):

$vmParams = @{
  ResourceGroupName = '<resource-group-name>'
  Name = 'TestVM1'
  Location = 'westeurope'
  ImageName = 'Win2019Datacenter'
  PublicIpAddressName = 'TestPublicIp'
  Credential = $cred
  OpenPorts = 3389
}

Use the New-AzVM command to create a new VM with the parameters defined in the previous step. Store the reference to the VM in the $NewVM1 variable.

To identify the configuration settings of the new VM, run the following commands:

$NewVM1
$newVM1.OSProfile | Select-Object ComputerName,AdminUserName
$newVM1 | Get-AzNetworkInterface | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IpConfigurations | Select-Object Name,PrivateIpAddress

To retrieve the name of the resource group into which you deployed the Azure VM and store it in a variable, run the following command:
```
$rgName = $NewVM1.ResourceGroupName
```

To identify the public IP address assigned to the network interface of the Azure VM so you can connect to it, run the following commands:

$publicIp = Get-AzPublicIpAddress -Name TestPublicIp -ResourceGroupName $rgName
   
$publicIp | Select-Object Name,IpAddress,@{label='FQDN';expression={$_.DnsSettings.Fqdn}}

Note the value of IPAddress in the table output.
Use the mstsc.exe tool to connect to the Azure VM you created by using Remote Desktop. Sign in with the admin credentials you provided during the Azure VM provisioning. Once connected, shut down the operating system.

Task 2: Add a disk to the Azure VM by using PowerShell

Use the Azure portal to navigate to the page of the TestVM1 Azure VM.
Ensure that TestVM1 has only a single disk attached (hosting its operating system).

Create a data disk for the existing VM by running the following commands:

$VirtualMachine = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name "TestVM1"
Add-AzVMDataDisk -VM $VirtualMachine -Name "disk1" -LUN 0 -Caching ReadOnly -DiskSizeinGB 1 -CreateOption Empty
Update-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -VM $VirtualMachine

Switch to the Azure portal and refresh the Disks page. Ensure that there’s a new disk called disk1 in the Data disks section.

Task 3: Delete the Azure resources

On the LON-CL1 computer, switch back to the PowerShell window.
In the PowerShell console, delete the resource group and all of its resources that you created earlier in this lab by running the following command:
```
 Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name $rgName -Force
```
Wait for the command to complete. This should take less than 5 minutes.