How to install PowerShell ARM

In your Azure portal, you will create Storage account, VMs, Search Services, Web apps, Virtual Network and DNS, Database servers, Third-party applications. If you want to manage and deploy them as a group, then ARM is the key point.

By using an ARM you can create, update, delete all the resource group in a single operation.

Here I have listed down the main terms that ARM used. (Copy-paste from MSTF Docs.)

• Resource - A manageable item that is available through Azure. Some common resources are a virtual machine, storage account, web app, database, and virtual network, but there are many more.
• Resource group - A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution, or only those resources that you want to manage as a group. You decide how you want to allocate resources to resource groups based on what makes the most sense for your organization. See Resource groups.
• Resource provider - A service that supplies the resources you can deploy and manage through Resource Manager. Each resource provider offers operations for working with the resources that are deployed. Some common resource providers are Microsoft.Compute, which supplies the virtual machine resource, Microsoft.Storage, which supplies the storage account resource, and Microsoft.Web, which supplies resources related to web apps. See Resource providers.
• Resource Manager template - A JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file that defines one or more resources to deploy to a resource group. It also defines the dependencies between the deployed resources. The template can be used to deploy the resources consistently and repeatedly. See Template deployment.
• declarative syntax - Syntax that lets you state "Here is what I intend to create" without having to write the sequence of programming commands to create it. The Resource Manager template is an example of declarative syntax. In the file, you define the properties for the infrastructure to deploy to Azure.

If you are using an ARM , there are some benefits. specially you can save your time on doing same thing again and again in Azure portal,

I'll now show the steps that we need to follow to install ARM in your PowerShell. 

To use the cmdlets, you need to install and configure Azure PowerShell to connect it to your account.

Step 1: Install

Following are the two methods by which you can install Azure PowerShell. You can install it either from the PowerShell Gallery or from  the WebPI.

• Installing Azure PowerShell from the PowerShell Gallery

To use PowerShell Gallery. You need the PowerShellGet module to use the PowerShell Gallery. This is available here: PowerShellGallery.com

Install the latest Azure PowerShell from the PowerShell Gallery using an elevated Windows PowerShell or PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) prompt using the following commands:

+ Install the Azure Resource Manager modules from the PowerShell Gallery

  Install-Module AzureRM

+ Install the Azure Service Management module from the PowerShell Gallery

  Install-Module Azure

More about these commands

• Install-Module AzureRM installs a rollup module for the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets. The AzureRM module depends on a particular version range for each Azure Resource Manager module. The included version range assures that no breaking module changes can be included when installing AzureRM modules with the same major version. When you install the AzureRM module, any Azure Resource Manager module that has not previously been installed will be downloaded and installed from the PowerShell Gallery.

• Install-Module Azure installs the Azure module. This module is the Service Management module from Azure PowerShell 0.9.x. This should have no major changes and be interchangeable for the previous version of the Azure module.

Then you can test the Azure connectivity  by typing below command, 

PS C:\Windows\system32> Login-AzureRmAccount

If you can get the below mentioned windows means, You are good to go with it.

[Solved] The requested session access is denied

 

This is a known error message for IT Administrators. But I'll highlight the options that are available to mitigate this issue.

You will face this issue when you try to connect into, 

Azure virtual Server 

Windows 2012 Server 

Windows 2008/20008 R2 Server 

First, you need to check whether your enter you Admin credentials on the same RDP window is working. This would be working.

Then run the MTSC without Admin (mstsc /admin) and give your user credentials.

If that is an Azure VPC, without clicking the Connect tab on the VM control page, you can copy the Virtual machine IP address or the FQDN and use the normal RDP connection to connect.

In Azure, you can find the VPC details under Essentials tab.

Hope this will help.

How to Resize/Expand Windows Azure VM OS Disk

 

Here I'm going to show the steps that you can follow to expand your Azure VM Operating system Disk.  
There are a couple of ways to do this and here I'm using the PowerShell to do the work .    
 
First, you can try to run the below command on your PowerShell and check whether you can connect to your Microsoft Azure account in resource management (ARM) mode. 
 
PS C:\Windows\system32> Login-AzureRmAccount
 
If this doesn't give an Azure portal sign-in window, then first you have to install the ARM or the latest version of the 
Azure powershell from the   Gallery using an elevated Windows PowerShell. (ARM installation steps will post in the next post)   
 
Then you can test the Azure connectivity  by typing below command, 
 
PS C:\Windows\system32> Login-AzureRmAccount

If you can get the below mentioned windows means, you can go into the next step.

If you are using PowershellISE then this will be easy for you to run the below script. Copy and paste the below script and  Copy and paste the correct values for

Name_of_the_Azure_subscription, Name_of_the_Resource_Group, Name_of_the_Server and give the correct capacity for the OS Disk.

Login-AzureRmAccount
Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName 'Name_of_the_Azure_subscription'
$rgName = 'Name_of_the_Resource_Group'
$vmName = 'Name_of_the_Server'
$vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName
Stop-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName
$vm.StorageProfile.OSDisk.DiskSizeGB = 1023
Update-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -VM $vm
Start-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $vmName

You can download this from here.

Once you run the Script, It will ask for the credentials. Give that and hit Sign in.

This information window will pop up and you can hit yes.

Once the task completed, you will get the below "Succeeded" alert with the Start, Stop time.

Connect into your VM and go into "Disk Management". You will see the Unallocated space. From there you will be able to extend the OS Disk.

Hope this helps you to expand  your Azure VM OS Disk.