### TABLE OF CONTENT

1. GET A DOLLAR CARD.
2. HOW TO OPEN AN AZURE ACCOUNT.
3. USE YOUR FREE ACCOUNT.
4. CREATING WINDOWS 11 VM ON AZURE.
5. VIRTUAL MACHINE CREATION STEP BY STEP.

## INTRODUCTION
Azure Microsoft cloud provider has one of the most user-friendly inter-phase, creating its Virtual Machine (VM) is one of the most fascinating experiences, you need to own a dollar account and open an Azure account to achieve the aforementioned. There are three main types of Azure subscriptions: Free, Pay-As-You-Go, and Enterprise Agreement. The Free subscription is ideal for individuals and small businesses to explore and experiment with Azure services. The Pay-As-You-Go subscription offers flexibility and scalability on a pay-as-you-use basis. While the enterprise agreement involves several organizations of up to 500 that will periodically pay for services annually (At least 3 years).

## GETTING A DOLLAR ACCOUNT
Various types of bank accounts can be used to open your Azure account, due to security it will be advised that you use a domiciliary account dollar card, GREY and KLASHA can be used as they are verifiable Bitcoin payment platforms, we will be using GREY.

You will be charged a one-time fee of $5 (DOLLAR) from your USD balance in your grey account for your virtual card, below is the breakdown.
(a)card creation fee of 4 dollars
(b)card top-up 1 dollar.

It should be noted that you can pay from your regular bank account into a grey account and the naira can be easily converted into dollars, grey can generate a Wema bank account and it's in collaboration with Flutter Wave.

GREY has three international denominations that you can convert from which are as follows, DOLLAR, EURO, AND POUNDS STERLIN.

## HOW TO OPEN AN AZURE ACCOUNT.

Steps : How to Get Azure Free Subscription
Go to the Azure Home Page.
Click on Free Azure Account on the top right corner.
Click on Start Free.
Sign-in/Sign-up for a Microsoft account using an email address and password.
Enter your Country/Region and Date of Birth and click next.

##CREATING WINDOWS 11 VM ON AZURE

There are various ways to navigate your Azure resources,
(a)It could be searched from the search engine.
(b)Selected from the side menu.
(c)Or selected from your home menu.

##VIRTUAL MACHINE CREATION STEP BY STEP.

(A) Click on the free trial icon

(B) Click on the VM icon and create, please note that it comes with an default subscription icon.

(c) Click on the resource group icon and create a resource group name depending on the request and administrator discretion, also type in your virtual machine name, select your region, and choose your availability option as No infrastructure redundancy required, security type should be standard,and image should be Windows 11 pro version 22H2 x64 .

(d) Creating and administrator account.
you will choose a USER name and password following the Azure required character and letter sequence and confirm the password, select the required inbound port network e.g RDP 3389 (Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a Microsoft proprietary protocol that enables remote connections to other computers,) (Inbound rules are designed to protect your network from unauthorized access by filtering incoming requests based on predetermined criteria such as IP addresses,
port numbers, and protocols).

(e) Disk configuration
Your disk type will be based on specification and clients request , the SSD is and internal storage latest technology , delete with VM is usually choosen to save one off resource that are created,ultra disk is a type of disk that is region bound and not supported at all region.
YOU CAN ADD AND CONFIGURE ADDITIONAL DATA DISK FOR YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINE OR ATTACH EXISTING DISK, THIS VM ALSO COMES WITH A TEMPORARY DISK.

(F) NETWORKING.
Azure VM network has an accelerated system, the resource provider Microsoft should be registered in order to enable accelerated networking, load balancing selection should be for the purpose of this virtual machine.

(G)MANAGEMENT.
Microsoft defender for cloud provides unified security management an advance threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads.

(H)MONITORING.

ADVANCE / TAGS / REVIEW AND CREATE.

ADVANCE:- VM applications contains files that are securely and reliably downloaded on your VM after deployment in addition to thee application file

TAGS:- Capacity reservation for your virtual machine needs , you to get the sane (SLA) Service Level Agreement as a normal VM with security of reserving the capacity ahead of time .

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REVIEW AND CREATE:- once the review and create icon is clicked the virtual machice continues to deploy until softare for virtual machine is downloaded and a virtual environment is re-created and can be worked on as a seperate machine.

PER HOUR CHARGES DISPLAYED

DEPLOYMENT IN PROGRESS

DEPLOYMENT COMPELTE

CONNECT

DOWMLOAD RPD FILE

RUN DOWNLOADED FILE

INPUT PASSWORD TO RUN FILE

SET UP NEW WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

START WORK ON THE NEW WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT .

RUN BROWSER AND START WORK.

SUMMARY.

The lockdown during covid-19 brought about a new era in remote office work deployment and execution, microsoft azure and other cloud service proiders responded accordingly.