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Recently my laptop got stolen and that gave me a push to build my lab on Azure. I tweeted this and got an awesome reply by Jim Christopher [PowerShell MVP] : Thanks to my friend Fenil Shah who lend me his laptop to try out Azure. Cheers to having awesome friends :) I thought it would be better if I put my notes as a post. These are entirely for my reference ;)  The best posts around Azure + PowerShell are by Michael Washam which can be found on his blog  here . My Action plan is to configure a ServerCore Server 2012 R2 machine running Active Directory for this post from scratch, I don't have anything right now on my azure account. Below are the steps: Sign Up for Azure (Free Trial is available) Install Azure PowerShell Module &  Configure your subscription Create a Virtual Net for your LAB Deploy the VM Connecting to VM using PSRemoting Add a new Data Disk to VM Install ADDS and a new domain. Steps 1-3 are one time activity, next time you want t

Recently started working at AirWatch by VMWare and been busy learning the new Mobile technologies.  Not been able to do much on the PowerShell and ConfigMgr side but I did few things in Azure with PowerShell (did build my LAB up there). So will be speaking on this very topic at the Microsoft Community Day event on 23rd August . Below is the eventbrite link to register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/microsoft-community-day-2014-bangalore-itpro-and-powershell-bangalore-ug-meet-tickets-12458869815 Later in September will be speaking at the Microsoft Event on "Transforming the Datacenter" at Bangalore, India. Below is the link for that (limited seats): https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032592541&culture=en-IN Also planning a few hangouts for the PowerShell Bangalore User Group to help new people embrace the Shell. :)