Thursday, October 31, 2019

Finding Image Parameters


Market Place Images Selector Webpages:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/microsoftwindowsserver.windowsserver?tab=Overview

Image Locator commands

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/tutorial-manage-vm#understand-marketplace-images

List Publishers
Get-AzVMImagePublisher -Location "uksouth" | ?{$_.PublisherName -like "microsoft*"}

List Offers
Get-azvmImageOffer -Location 'UK South' -PublisherName 'MicrosoftWindowsServer'

List Sku (variants)
Get-AzVMImageSku -Location 'UK South' -PublisherName "MicrosoftWindowsServer" -Offer WindowsServer | ?{$_.Skus -notlike "*smalldisk"}

List Versions
Get-azvmimage -Location 'UK South' -PublisherName MicrosoftWindowsServer -Offer Windowsserver -Skus 2012-Datacenter


The New-AZVM   -imagename  parameter value can then be composed of Publisher, Offer, Sku, Version separated by colons

e.g.

-imagename "MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2016-Datacenter-with-Containers:latest"