Running the Azure Virtual Machine Preparation Setup

To run the Azure virtual machine preparation setup on Azure virtual machine, perform the following steps.

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Create an Azure virtual machine. For more information, see Create an Azure Virtual Machine.

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Create a DNS for the Azure virtual machine. For more information, see Generate DNS Name.

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Run the Virtual Machine Preparation setup on a virtual machine. For more information, see Running the Virtual Machine Preparation Setup. After you have run the Virtual Machine Preparation setup, restart the virtual machine.

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Add Azure virtual machine details as a trusted host for the same Azure Virtual machine (Guest Agent VM) by running the following commands in PowerShell in Administration mode.

winrm quickconfig

winrm set winrm/config/client '@{TrustedHosts = "<NameoftheAzureGuestAgentVM(or)DNSName(or)ip>"}'

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Shut down the Azure virtual machine.

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Add 445 has a NSG Inbound port rule. For more information, see Add Inbound Port Rule.

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Take a back up of the virtual machine. For more information, see Backup Azure VMs with the Azure Backup service.

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While adding the Azure virtual machine details in Specify Virtual Machine details panel, select the recovery point in the Recovery Point drop down.