Login to Windows virtual machine in Azure using Azure AD authentication (and the pitfalls)!
Dear Microsoft Azure Friends, This article is about the login to Windows virtual machine in Azure using Azure Active Directory authentication and what needs to be considered in the process. This article describes the procedure. So far, everything is actually in perfect order. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/howto-vm-sign-in-azure-ad-windows So I have worked through the steps and now I want to log on to the virtual machine with an Azure Active Directory account. Why does this error message appear now? Have I done something wrong? I am going through all the steps again. No fits. So I take another close look at the article and discover the following: But that's exactly not the case with me. I want to connect from my local system which is not registered or joined in Azure. Let's take it one step at a time. First of all, I create a group in Azure Active Directory. This will contain the account I will use later for the login. ATTENTION: Use the appropriate Windows OS => Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition and later or Windows 10 1809 and later Next I create a new virtual machine with the default settings (including a public IP address and yes this is not good, but this demo absolutely OK). Except for Management I set the following settings. If you want to work with an existing virtual machine you need to install the extension. You can do this with the Azure Cloud Shell, in a Bash terminal. az vm extension set \ --publisher Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory \ --name AADLoginForWindows \ --resource-group YourResourceGroup \ --vm-name YourVM After the virtual machine is created we need to work with Role based Access Control RBAC. There are two roles that can be used. Virtual Machine Administrator Login or Virtual Machine User Login If you need local admin rights you need the first role. If you want to log in as a standard user, you can work with the second role. Now we connect to the virtual machine using RDP, but ATTENTION, I use the account I created when I created the virtual machine (not an Azure AD account). In the virtual machine I start the command prompt and use dsregcmd /status. The machine is Azure AD Joined. In the virtual machine, navigate to Start and invoke "run". Type sysdm.cpl and navigate to the Remote tab. Remove the "Allow connections..." option and click "Select Users". When you click on "Locations" you will immediately see that you cannot select an account from Azure AD. We need the command prompt for this. Start the command prompt with elevated privileges and enter the following (customized with your information, of course). net localgroup "remote desktop users" /add "AzureAD\Email address removed" Go back to the Azure Portal to your virtual machine. Download the RDP connection file. Open this RDP file with an editor and add the following lines. enablecredsspsupport:i:0 authentication level:i:2 Now double click on the RDP connection file and now use the Azure account for login. AND BINGO, we can now log in to our virtual machine using the Azure Active Directory account! Cool! I hope this article was useful. Thank you for taking the time to read the article. Best regards, Tom Wechsler P.S. All scripts (#PowerShell, Azure CLI, #Terraform, #ARM) that I use can be found on github! https://github.com/tomwechslerUsing PowerShell in Azure to assign a new virtual machine to an existing virtual network!
Hi Azure friends, I used the PowerShell ISE for this configuration. But you are also very welcome to use Visual Studio Code, just as you wish. Please start with the following steps to begin the deployment (the Hashtags are comments): #The first two lines have nothing to do with the configuration, but make some space below in the blue part of the ISE Set-Location C:\Temp Clear-Host #So that you can carry out the configuration, you need the necessary cmdlets, these are contained in the module Az (is the higher-level module from a number of submodules) Install-Module -Name Az -Force -AllowClobber -Verbose #Log into Azure Connect-AzAccount #Search for the resource groups Get-AzResourceGroup | Format-Table #Whats in a specific resource group Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName tw-azuredemo-rg | Format-Table #Some variables $RGName = "tw-azuredemo-rg" $VnetName = "tw-vnet-workload" $Location = "westeurope" $VMName = "twsrv2021" $credential = Get-Credential #We need all infos about the virtual network $VirtualNetwork = (Get-AzVirtualNetwork -Name $VnetName -ResourceGroupName $RGName) #Let's have a look at the variable $VirtualNetwork #Create a network interface $nic = New-AzNetworkInterface ` -ResourceGroupName $RGName ` -Name "twsrv2021-nic" ` -Location $Location ` -SubnetId $VirtualNetwork.Subnets[0].Id #Define your VM $vmConfig = New-AzVMConfig -VMName $VMName -VMSize "Standard_D2s_v4" #Create the rest of your VM configuration $vmConfig = Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -VM $vmConfig ` -Windows ` -ComputerName $VMName ` -Credential $credential ` -ProvisionVMAgent ` -EnableAutoUpdate $vmConfig = Set-AzVMSourceImage -VM $vmConfig ` -PublisherName "MicrosoftWindowsServer" ` -Offer "WindowsServer" ` -Skus "2016-Datacenter" ` -Version "latest" #Attach the network interface that you previously created $vmConfig = Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -VM $vmConfig -Id $nic.Id #Create your VM New-AzVM -VM $vmConfig -ResourceGroupName $RGName -Location $Location Now you have used the PowerShell to create a new virtual machine and added to an existing virtual network! Congratulations! I hope this article was useful. Best regards, Tom Wechsler P.S. All scripts (#PowerShell, Azure CLI, #Terraform, #ARM) that I use can be found on github! https://github.com/tomwechslerUsing the PowerShell in Azure to provide a Linux VM (virtual machine) with NGINX support
Hi Azure friends, I used the PowerShell ISE for this configuration. But you are also very welcome to use Visual Studio Code, just as you wish. Please start with the following steps to begin the deployment (the Hashtags are comments): #The first two lines have nothing to do with the configuration, but make some space below in the blue part of the ISE Set-Location C:\Temp Clear-Host #So that you can carry out the configuration, you need the necessary cmdlets, these are contained in the module Az (is the higher-level module from a number of submodules) Install-Module -Name Az -Force -AllowClobber -Verbose #Log into Azure Connect-AzAccount #Select the correct subscription Get-AzContext Get-AzSubscription Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "your subscription name" | Select-AzSubscription # Variables for common values $resourceGroup = "myResourceGroup" $location = "westeurope" $vmName = "myVM" # Define user name and blank password (never put a secret in code, but for this demo it is OK) $securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString 'P@ssw0rd123!!' -AsPlainText -Force $cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("tom", $securePassword) # Create a resource group New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location # Create a subnet configuration $subnetConfig = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name mySubnet -AddressPrefix 192.168.1.0/24 # Create a virtual network $vnet = New-AzVirtualNetwork -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location ` -Name MYvNET -AddressPrefix 192.168.0.0/16 -Subnet $subnetConfig # Create a public IP address and specify a DNS name $pip = New-AzPublicIpAddress -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location ` -Name "mypublicdns$(Get-Random)" -AllocationMethod Static -IdleTimeoutInMinutes 4 # Create an inbound network security group rule for port 22 $nsgRuleSSH = New-AzNetworkSecurityRuleConfig -Name myNetworkSecurityGroupRuleSSH -Protocol Tcp ` -Direction Inbound -Priority 1000 -SourceAddressPrefix * -SourcePortRange * -DestinationAddressPrefix * ` -DestinationPortRange 22 -Access Allow # Create an inbound network security group rule for port 80 $nsgRuleHTTP = New-AzNetworkSecurityRuleConfig -Name myNetworkSecurityGroupRuleHTTP -Protocol Tcp ` -Direction Inbound -Priority 2000 -SourceAddressPrefix * -SourcePortRange * -DestinationAddressPrefix * ` -DestinationPortRange 80 -Access Allow # Create a network security group $nsg = New-AzNetworkSecurityGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location ` -Name myNetworkSecurityGroup -SecurityRules $nsgRuleSSH,$nsgRuleHTTP # Create a virtual network card and associate with public IP address and NSG $nic = New-AzNetworkInterface -Name myNic -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location ` -SubnetId $vnet.Subnets[0].Id -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id -NetworkSecurityGroupId $nsg.Id # Create a virtual machine configuration $vmConfig = New-AzVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize Standard_DS2_v2 | ` Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -Linux -ComputerName $vmName -Credential $cred | ` Set-AzVMSourceImage -PublisherName Canonical -Offer UbuntuServer -Skus 18.04-LTS -Version latest | ` Add-AzVMNetworkInterface -Id $nic.Id # Create a virtual machine New-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location -VM $vmConfig # Install NGINX. $PublicSettings = '{"commandToExecute":"apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install nginx"}' Set-AzVMExtension -ExtensionName "NGINX" -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -VMName $vmName ` -Publisher "Microsoft.Azure.Extensions" -ExtensionType "CustomScript" -TypeHandlerVersion 2.0 ` -SettingString $PublicSettings -Location $location #Check NGINX within the vm or use the public IP of the VM in a browser session. Now you have configured a linux virtual machine with the PowerShell in Azure! Congratulations! #Delete all resources (when you no longer need it) Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name myResourceGroup -Force I hope this article was useful. Best regards, Tom Wechsler P.S. All scripts (#PowerShell, Azure CLI, #Terraform, #ARM) that I use can be found on github! https://github.com/tomwechsler
