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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…

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…

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…

There's options to create Virtual Machine's (VM's) on a Windows computer, using third-party options such as VMware Workstation, which is a robust, feature-rich product, though this might be out of reach for those on a budget or unnecessary for basic needs. There's also Oracle VM…

Windows Server Backup is a free, optional tool to create backups of volumes, both OS and Data, as separate backups. With a bit of scripting, you could create a reasonable backup solution if dedicate third party solutions are out of reach. By default, wbadmin will…