If you're already using Azure you most likely already have a few Azure VMs running in the cloud. Let's try to start and stop an existing VM from PowerShell. To do this, we'll use the Get-AzureVM ...

3. Create a Storage Container Your local file system uses directories or folders to separate files. In Azure, these groups of files are known as containers. Every file in an Azure storage account must ...

The VM agent is installed on all images provisioned from the Azure Marketplace, but if you've uploaded your own image, it can be installed manually. As soon as the VM agent is installed on an Azure VM ...

Use Azure Automation with the Let's Encrypt free certificate authority to create, validate and install certificates on a firewall.

PowerShell is often used to deploy Microsoft Azure ARM templates, but you can also create a script to easily build and modify existing templates. Here's how.

Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud.