Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

Azure exposes a remoting endpoint by default to Windows Servers, and at some point you will need to turn to scripting to manage a servers

environments to perform automated tasks ,and some daily repeated tasks .

 

 

 

 

 

so you think if we got all the info above from Azure ,we are set right ?

sure .. go ahead try it 🙂

 

Connect VM on Azure with PS

 

 

 

 

 

 

so..its not going so well, from the error we got we can learn we must use SSL authentication in order to create a session.

so we can use with

but we first must install the certificate for this VM ,in order to get the VM Certificate we can log in to the VM it-self and export it from the

MMC (Start->Run->certlm.msc->Personal->Certificates) and then install it on our local machine.

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we can browse to the machine certificate and save it to a file instead ,like –

https://AzureVM.cloudapp.net:5986

we’ll get

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go to the Certificate Details and Save it to File –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now Import the saved certificate to the User Certificates, this should be imported to

(Start->Run->Certmgr.msc->Trusted Root Certification Authorities->Certificates)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now with the certificate installed locally, you can try to create a new PowerShell Remoting session:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you should be able to Remote powershell with your Azure VM.

 

 

Enjoy!