This guide will provide you with a reference to key PowerShell commands necessary for Azure administrators as well as required to pass the Azure Administrator and Expert certification exams (AZ-103 (AZ-104), AZ-300 (AZ-303), and AZ-301 (AZ-304) from Microsoft.

This guide is made up of several PowerShell commands which have been referenced from the Microsoft documentation and other sources. Before running any of these commands in production, please be sure to test them out in an Azure test account. Some commands are destructive in nature (e.g. removing resource groups, tags, etc.) and you need to make sure you fully understand the commands that you execute.

The guide is divided up into the following sections:

· Downloading PowerShell and Installing Azure ARM Modules for PowerShell

· Accounts and Subscriptions

· Resource Groups

· Governance

· Storage

· Virtual Machines

· Networking

· Azure Active Directory

We hope you enjoy this guide and keep it handy by your desk for all your day to day Azure Administrator needs.

Thank you,

Skylines Academy Team

PowerShell script for this demo:

#Resource Group and Location

$rg = "SL-Network"

$location = "EastUS"

#VNET Name and Address Space

$VNETName = "SL-VNET-PShell"

$VNETAddressSpace = "10.0.0.0/22"

#Subnet Configurations

$websubnet = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name "SL-Web" -AddressPrefix "10.0.0.0/24"

$appsubnet = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name "SL-App" -AddressPrefix "10.0.1.0/24"

$dbsubnet = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name "SL-Data" -AddressPrefix "10.0.2.0/24"

#Create Resource Group

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $rg -Location $location

#Create VNET and Subnets

$virtualNetwork = New-AzVirtualNetwork -Name $VNETName -ResourceGroupName $rg `

    -Location $location -AddressPrefix $VNETAddressSpace -Subnet $websubnet,$appsubnet

#Add Additional Subnet

$subnetConfig = Add-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig `

  -Name "LastSubnet" `

  -AddressPrefix "10.0.4.0/24" `

  -VirtualNetwork $virtualNetwork

#Write the changes to the VNET

$virtualNetwork | Set-AzVirtualNetwork

PowerShell script for this demo:

#Create Resource Group

New-AzResourceGroup -Name SL-PowershellVM -Location EastUS

#Create Virtual Machine

New-AzVm `

    -ResourceGroupName "SL-PowershellVM" `

    -Name "vmpshell01" `

    -Location "East US" `

    -VirtualNetworkName "pshellVnet" `

    -SubnetName "pshellSubnet" `

    -SecurityGroupName "pshellNetworkSecurityGroup" `

    -PublicIpAddressName "pshellPublicIpAddress" `

    -OpenPorts 80,3389

PowerShell script for this demo:

#Create Resource Group

New-AzResourceGroup -Name SL-PowershellVM -Location EastUS

#Create Virtual Machine

New-AzVm `

    -ResourceGroupName "SL-PowershellVM" `

    -Name "vmpshell01" `

    -Location "East US" `

    -VirtualNetworkName "pshellVnet" `

    -SubnetName "pshellSubnet" `

    -SecurityGroupName "pshellNetworkSecurityGroup" `

    -PublicIpAddressName "pshellPublicIpAddress" `

    -OpenPorts 80,3389

Az Copy Reference:

azcopy login --tenant-id "<YOUR TENANT ID>"

azcopy make "https://<YOUR STORAGE ACCOUNT NAME>.blob.core.windows.net/testcontainer"

azcopy copy "C:\Images\*" "https://<YOUR STORAGE ACCOUNT NAME>.core.windows.net/testcontainer/"

Append the --recursive flag to upload files in all sub-directories.

COPY CONTAINER FROM ONE STORAGE ACCOUNT TO ANOTHER

azcopy copy "https://<YOUR STORAGE ACCOUNT NAME>.blob.core.windows.net/?<SAS-token>" "https://<YOUR TARGET STORAGE ACCOUNT NAME>.blob.core.windows.net/" --recursive"

Script for this demo:

Configuration SkylinesIIS

{

  Node 'localhost'

  {

    #Install IIS - Enabled via Windows feature

    WindowsFeature IIS

    {

      Ensure = "Present"

      Name = "Web-Server"

    }

    #Install ASP.NET 4.5

    WindowsFeature ASP

    {

      Ensure = "Present"

      Name = "Web-Asp-Net45"

    }

  }

}