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Hardening Windows Virtual Machine with Azure State Configuration (DSC)

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Fixing non-bootable Azure Virtual Machine

Sometimes the Virtual Machine breaks down and can't be restored from the backup. It can occur both if there is no backup and if the backup didn't work for some reason. Fixing non-bootable VM can be complicated and time-consuming task. In this post I will describe how to fix non-booting VM using az cli commands. First thing you should consider when creating any new Azure VM (it can be enabled for existing VMs too) is Boot Diagnostics. The Boot Diagnostics gives the ability to see your VM status on the screenshot in Azure Portal. Based on that, one can see what kind of error prevented the VM from working normally (More about Boot Diagnostic can be read on official Microsoft Page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/boot-diagnostics ). Once discovered the root-cause of an issue one can start working on remediating it. Microsoft provides us a command, which can help remediate the non-booting Virtual Machine. Below I will describe two ways of fixing your VM using...

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