In this tutorial, we shall explore a method to deploy windows 11 VM on Azure. It is assumed that the user is logged into azure portal. Hence, the following steps are required to successfully deploy a win 11.

Input the resource you intend to create in the search bar and hit enter. The resource will be highlighted in grey, provided the resource is available and can be implemented.
The search bar has a default text of

Search resources, services, and docs (G+/)

Note: In our case, we want to create a Virtual Machine, so we will input "virtual machine"

• Click on the grey area to select the Virtual Machine

Click the + icon or Create or the dropdown icon or and select the desired Azure virtual machine

On the Basics tab, there are five main sections to be explored;

1. Project details
2. Instance details
3. Administrator account
4. Inbound port rules
5. Licensing

Project details: We can select our subscription type, as well as create a resource group or make a selection from a previously created resource group using the dropdown icon. In this instance, we shall create a new resource group

• Click the Create new

• Input the name of the resource group you wish to create

• Click OK
  

Instance details: In this section, you must provide the name of the virtual machine you wish to create, Region, Availability zone, Image (OS) and size. Other functionalities available are optional. For this tutorial, we shall create a Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 - x64 Gen2, all other options will be at the default settings.

Administrator account: We shall provide credentials to access this image in this section; username and password.

Inbound port rules: We can configure the VM to either be privately or publicly accessible and indicate the inbound ports in this section. This image is Windows, hence we shall use RDP(3389).

Licensing: We will check this box 😁

Monitoring: There are three key functions under monitoring. We will be disabling boot diagnostics so that the VM does not send reports to Azure and we can have a low footprint.

Tags: We shall create a name/value pair to categorise the azure resources and view consolidated billing

Review + Create : Click the Review and create tab
Select the create button at the bottom of the page

A successful deployment should indicated. Then, we should select Go to resource

Idle Time: Select the Public IP address, input the new idle time and select save

Go to overview and select connect

Now, click Select. After a few minutes, configured would appear in the Native RDP section, then you can download the RDP file

Open the rdp file and click connect

Username should appear in the RDP login screen and you can enter the value if it is not by default. Then, enter the password you created during the VM setup and login.

Select yes in this instance

Select yes and accept in the next screen

Booyah: we have our VM win 11 running

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