Different ways to create Azure Virtual Machines

Today  I am going to summarize various ways by which you an create Windows Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure.

[This article applies to Windows Virtual Machines]

By Using Azure Portal

If you are a beginner then this is the right place to start with for creating virtual machines in an easy to use portal. Please follow the below guided information to create your first Virtual Machine on windows.

Follow the below link for more detailed explanation

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-portal

By Using Resource Manager Template

When you create a Virtual Machine you may require to setup multiple things like setting up storage, Deployment and other required resources. These settings may require to perform separate actions during the setup. Hence in order to manage all of these resources in a single coordinated operation templates are used.

Follow the below link for more detailed explanation

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-ps-template/

By Using Azure PowerShell

By using Azure PowerShell one can automate many complex tasks. PowerShell is available on Windows, Mac and Linux and all the tasks that can be done through Azure Portal , can be done with PowerShell as well.

For example you can write PowerShell scripts to create Virtual Machines, configure Web Apps, Virtual Networks and many such tasks.

Follow the below link for more detailed explanation

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-ps-create/

By using Azure CLI

Azure CLI is a new command line tool provided by Microsoft to manage Azure Resources. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and does all the tasks which can be done by all the other approaches mentioned above.

Follow the below link for more detailed explanation

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-quick-create-cli-nodejs?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2flinux%2ftoc.json

By Using Visual Studio

In my opinion, Visual Studio is undoubtedly the most preferred Development IDE for Microsoft Developers and using this tool one can easily setup development machine to build deploy and manage various Azure Cloud Services.

Azure also provides No of preloaded VM images with  Visual Studio, Azure SDK and related tools and other relevant software's. This for sure, it's a boon to developers as it saves lot of time and one can get started quickly to play around with windows Azure.

Follow the below link for more detailed explanation

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/azure-tools/?wt.mc_id=DXLEX_edx_AZURE214x&wt.mc_id=DXLEX_openedx_Azure214x

  

Happy Learning !!!

SQL Server - Get the list of tables without Indexes

Here is the quickest way to know the list tables in SQL Server which doesn't have Indexes.

This will be very useful when we have large number of tables in our SQL Server database.


SELECT DISTINCT so.object_id,
                so.NAME
FROM   sys.indexes si
       INNER JOIN sys.objects SO
               ON SO.object_id = si.object_id
WHERE  SO.type = 'U'
       AND si.index_id = 0

Happy Learning !!!

What is the difference between Visual Studio Express Edition and Community Edition

As you all know, Microsoft has just released full featured Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. This allows developers to use fully loaded Visual Studio Development Environment.

So the questions arises is , what is the difference between Visual Studio Community Edition and Express Edition ?

Try Microsoft Products for Free in Virtual Lab Environment

Try Microsoft Products for Free in Virtual Lab Environment

Ever thought of trying Microsoft Product for Free before installing it ? Or just wanted to learn about a new feature Microsoft recently introduced i.e. even before installing it?

Like this there are various reasons we wanted to try or to just learn something new.

If your answer is yes to above questions, then Microsoft is offering a complete Virtual Environment - with Hands-On-Lab for testing various product features which you can't do it considering various limitations like - Can't install on a production Environment, Don't have enough infrastructure ready to setup the data etc.. etc..

Microsoft is offering HOL (Hands On Lab) for various products and you can check it out here

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs?id=J+avMPtWlXk

There are system requirements needs to be followed to run the Hands on Lab which you can find it here

Check System Requirement :

https://vlabs.holsystems.com/vlabs/SystemRequirements.aspx