Windows Azure Virtual Machine (10) Customizing Windows Azure Virtu

Customizing Windows Azure Virtual Machine templates

Through the previous article, I believe you have a certain understanding of Microsoft Windows Azure Virtual machine.

Although Microsoft offers a lot of azure Virtual machine templates for our selection (pictured below), these templates only install the most basic operating system.

Imagine that if I were a web developer, I would be using virtual machine. After each virtual machine is created, I need the Remote Desktop Connection VM to manually install IIS. Is such a process very cumbersome?

If I could prepare a virtual machine template with IIS installed in Azure virtual machine, it would be more convenient to use the virtual machine templates directly when you need to use IIS.

In this chapter, we divide the custom Azure Virtual machine template into the following steps:

1. Create Azure Virtual Machine

2. Remote connection create completed VM and increase IIS functionality

3. Run the operating system with the Sysprep.exe program, and shutdown

4. In the Azure Management portal, run the capture. Create a new virtual machine template. (Note: This step deletes the virtual Machine in step 1)

5. Create an azure vitual with IIS by using the custom Azure Virtual Machine template in step 4 Machine

1. First, we login to Windows Azure Admin interface: https://manage.windowsazure.com

2. Create virtual Machine, operating system we select Windows Server 2012 and configure the associated Machine name and DNS name. The following figure:

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