{"id":4563,"date":"2012-11-08T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2012-11-06T01:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:32:49","slug":"connecting-to-a-windows-computer-running-on-windows-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/connecting-to-a-windows-computer-running-on-windows-azure.htm","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-azure-in-10-easy-steps.htm\">creating a virtual machine in Windows Azure<\/a>, I left out the details for connecting to the virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual machine connections are controlled using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowsazure.com\/en-us\/manage\/windows\/how-to-guides\/setup-endpoints\/\">endpoints<\/a>, like the one shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine endpoints\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-endpoint-1.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this case, the endpoint for RemoteDesktop was created automatically as part of the virtual machine creation process so it&#8217;s pretty simple to connect to the virtual machine. Just fire up a Remote Desktop client and connect to the DNS name given to the virtual machine when it was created (in my case, that was mwil-playground.cloudapp.net). Alternatively, click the Connect button at the bottom of the Windows Azure management console:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-vm-8.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, follow the prompts to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect to an computer with an unknown publisher:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-rdp-1.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Provide \u00a0appropriate credentials:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-rdp-2.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Confirm that there is no certificate to validate the connection:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-rdp-3.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(It is possible to specify management certificates in the Windows Azure management console but that&#8217;s outside the scope of this post.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After a short while, during which remote desktop configures the session,\u00a0a connection should be made and the operating system can be administered as normal:<\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-rdp-4.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows Azure IAAS - virtual machine and storage ready for use\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/azure-iaas-rdp-5.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post about creating a virtual machine in Windows Azure, I left out the details for connecting to the virtual machine. Virtual machine connections are controlled using\u00a0endpoints, like the one shown below: In this case, the endpoint for RemoteDesktop was created automatically as part of the virtual machine creation process so it&#8217;s pretty simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/connecting-to-a-windows-computer-running-on-windows-azure.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[176,484],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-azure","tag-windows-server-2012"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/connecting-to-a-windows-computer-running-on-windows-azure.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Connecting to a Windows computer running on Windows Azure - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In yesterday&#8217;s post about creating a virtual machine in Windows Azure, I left out the details for connecting to the virtual machine. 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