Month: January 2016
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Enable Boot Diagnostics per Default
One great thing Microsoft had introduced last year to the Azure platform was the boot diagnostics capability. Looking at an ARM template you can add the following lines to the VM definition to activate the boot diagnostics for your VM per default. “diagnosticsProfile”: { “bootDiagnostics”: { “enabled”: “true”, “storageUri”: “[concat(‘http://’,parameters(‘newStorageAccountName’),’.’, parameters(‘blobStorageEndpoint’))]” } } Have a…
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Installing BGInfo VM Extension
When you want to install the BGInfo VM extension during the Azure VM deployment through an ARM template, then you have to add the following lines to your template. { “apiVersion”: “2015-06-15”, “type”: “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions”, “name”: “[concat(variables(‘vmName’),’/’, parameters(‘vmBGInfo’))]”, “location”: “[parameters(‘location’)]”, “dependsOn”: [ “[concat(‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/’, variables(‘vmName’))]” ], “properties”: { “publisher”: “Microsoft.Compute”, “type”: “BGInfo”, “typeHandlerVersion”: “2.1”, “settings”: {}, “protectedSettings”:…