Azure (22)

Removing BitLocker Encryption

While you can enable BitLocker Encryption using the Azure Disk Encryption Extension, you can also disable it. There are two steps to this; disabling BitLocker at the VM-level and finally removing the extension. Azure will prevent you from reversing the order as volume(s) must be completely decrypted…

Renaming a VM

When creating a VM in Azure, you need to be certain of the name you provide it at the beginning; there is no way to rename it after, which can be a hassle if you need to change it for whatever reason. The only way…

Restore an encrypted VM via PowerShell

Restoring an encrypted VM from the Recovery Services vault using the Azure Portal is relatively simple to do; select the desired restore point, choose to restore the VM and deploy the template. This process takes care of the heavy lifting by rebuilding the VM from…

Shut down an Azure VM

To save running costs, it’s wise to deallocate an Azure VM. Shut down the operating system alone does not stop the billable charges for the compute aspect of the VM; therefore, you should stop the VM, which deallocates the resources associated to it at the…