Create a Windows VM in the Azure Portal changes

This morning as I was creating a new VM on Azure, I saw that the process has changed

Here are the new screens

After selecting your VM to deploy, in my example below Windows 10 Pro Version 1803, click on Create

Here are the new screens, presented like Tab.

Selection:

• Subscription
• Resource Group
• VM Name
• Region
• Availability options
• You can still change the Image if needed as well as the size
• Provide local Admin Username and Password
• Inbound Port Rules

Click on Next : Disks >

Here you can change the OS Disk Type and select if you want managed or unmanaged disks

Click on Next: Networking>

Select your vNet, Subnet and Public IP (if needed)

You can chose NSG and Public inbound port

Click on Next: Management >

Here you can select Boot and OS guest Diagnostics and well as Identity and Auto-Shutdown

Click on Next: Guest config>

Here you can select extension to install

Click on Next: Tags>

Here you can define Tags

Click on Next: Review + create>

After validation click on Create

 

My opinion is that the new proposed screens are more logical for the creation process with some new options during VM initial creation.

As reminder before we had 4 steps:

• Basics
• Size
• Settings
• Summary

And now we have:

• Basics
• Disks
• Networking
• Management
• Guest config
• Tags
• Review + Create

 

Thanks

Arnaud