I wanted to explore the benefits of [Azure ARM VMs that run on Arm-based processors][1]. They offer outstanding price-performance and power-efficiency for various workloads. In this snippet, I show how to deploy a [Generation 2][2] Windows 11 ARM virtual machine with basic [naming standard][11] and diagnostics using PowerShell cmdlets. This stores the name in a variable, creates a resource group and parameterizes the location and Resource Group name for [splatting][3]. ```powershell $Location= 'NorthCentralUS' $Name = 'Win11ARM' $RG = New-AzResourceGroup -Location $Location -Name ($Name+'RG') $Params = @{ResourceGroupName = $RG.ResourceGroupName; Location = $Location; Verbose=$true} ```

This is the network configuration to create an NSG allowing remote desktop connections and a public IP address pointing to the [accelerated networking][4] enabled network card that the virtual machine would use. Add the IP where the RDP connection would come from. ```powershell #Network configuration $RDParams= @{Name= "$Name'RDPRule'"; Description= 'Allow RDP'; Access= 'Allow'; Protocol= 'Tcp'; Direction= 'Inbound'; SourcePortRange= '*'; DestinationPortRange= '3389'} $RDPRule = New-AzNetworkSecurityRuleConfig @RDPParams -Priority 200 -SourceAddressPrefix -DestinationAddressPrefix VirtualNetwork $NSG = New-AzNetworkSecurityGroup @Params -Name $Name'NSG' -SecurityRules $RDPRule $Subnet = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name Default -AddressPrefix 192.168.0.0/29 -NetworkSecurityGroup $NSG $Vnet = New-AzVirtualNetwork @Params -Name $Name'VN' -AddressPrefix 192.168.0.0/28 -Subnet $Subnet $PIP = New-AzPublicIpAddress @Params -Name $Name'PIP' -AllocationMethod Dynamic -Sku Basic -DomainNameLabel $Name.ToLower() $NIC = New-AzNetworkInterface @Params -Name $Name'NIC' -SubnetId $Vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $PIP.Id -EnableAcceleratedNetworking ``` The virtual machine configuration specifies the name, [size][5], credentials, time zone, [image details][10], [update behavior][6] and [diagnostics configuration][7] of the VM. Add your password. ```powershell #Virtual Machine Configuration $cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential "admin",$(ConvertTo-SecureString '' -asplaintext -force) $vmConfig= New-AzVMConfig -VMName $Name'VM' -VMSize Standard_E4ps_v5 -LicenseType Windows_Client| Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -Windows -ComputerName $Name'VM' -Credential $cred -TimeZone 'Central Standard Time' -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate| Set-AzVMSourceImage -PublisherName MicrosoftWindowsDesktop -Offer windows11preview-arm64 -Skus win11-22h2-ent -Version latest| Set-AzVMOSDisk -Name $Name'D' -Caching ReadWrite -CreateOption FromImage| Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -Id $NIC.Id|Set-AzVMBootDiagnostic -ResourceGroupName $RG.ResourceGroupName -Enable New-AzVM @Params -VM $vmConfig #Deploys the VM ``` **Output** ``` RequestId IsSuccessStatusCode StatusCode ReasonPhrase --------- ------------------- ---------- ------------ True OK OK ``` ![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9ki4cvu8jf2i1r0v9f7l.png) The Windows ARM image is still in preview and doesn't support [Trusted Launch][8] or [Secure Boot][9] yet and it's for validation purposes only. [1]: [2]: [3]: [4]: [5]: [6]: [7]: [8]: [9]: [10]: [11]:

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Azure PowerShell to deploy Win11 Arm VM

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