# Upload a Windows 10 VM to Azure Resource Manager

I needed to upload and create a Windows 10 image to an Azure tenant that didn't have one available. Most of them don't unless they're given as part of an MSDN subscription. This is the **How-To**.

The steps:

1. Create a base image with the features, software, patches and whatever else you need
    
2. Mark it as image
    
3. Upload it to Azure - ARM mode
    
4. Create the image from the base
    

Here's the original desktop I created on my Azure tenant :

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Hello Windows 10, Windows 10 N actually. Same Windows but with no Media Related Technologies\[/caption\]

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I properly called it Windows10Base\[/caption\]

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After patching and adding all the required components. The next step is to run *sysprep*\[/caption\]

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It normally takes 10 to 15 minutes to finish. Once it's done, the VM will be deleted form the Tenant, the VM, not the disk.\[/caption\]

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Here's the sysprep-ed VHD to be used as an image\[/caption\]

**Note**: You have to shutdown the VM and mark it as image after the ***sysprep*,** if this is not done, the VM will not be able to be used as an image to create other VMs

```plaintext
Stop-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName '<Your Resource Group here>' -Name '<Vm Name>'
Set-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName '<Your Resource Group Name' -Name ''<VM Name>"  -Generalized
```

Next, was to download the .***vHD***. Remember this was created in one subscription and uploaded to another.

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I used the Azure Storage Explorer in a Windows Box\[/caption\]

Now I had the .***vHD*** file locally, it can be uploaded to the corresponding storage account in the target subscription.

The quick steps:

```plaintext
Login-AzureRmAccount - It will challenge you to provide the username/password set
```

```plaintext
Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" - In case you have access to more than one subscription

```

I created a container inside a storage account for this .***vHD*** https://\[whatevernamesuitsyou\].[blob.core.windows.net/vhd](http://blob.core.windows.net/vhd)

Time to upload the .**vHD** to the target Subscription

```plaintext
Add-AzureRmVhd -ResourceGroupName [YourResourceGroupName] `
-Destination "https://[whatevernamesuitsyou].blob.core.windows.net/vhd/windows10basehd.vhd" `
-LocalFilePath .\Windows10Base2016326141340.vhd
```

It will look like this:

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It took 1 1/2 hours to upload\[/caption\]

The .***vHD*** is up, now what?

## Time to create the Virtual Machine

```plaintext
#By Roberto Lopez aka @soyroberto
#modified from
#https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-upload-image
#April 2016
# You can copy/paste this code and adjust it, as long as your VHD is up and generalised
#You have to fill all things in ""
$rgname = ""  #change it to your corresponding RG name
$storageAccName = "" #change it to your storage account name
$location = "" # put your Azure region here
$vnet = "" #adjust your Vnet Name here

#change names below for uniqueness
As an improve you could modify the variables below to make them automatic.
$nicname = "" #name of the Card for the VM
$vmname = "" #Name of VM. This is the name you see in the Azure portal
$computerName = "" #Computer name of the VM/The one you see in Windows
$osDiskName = "" #Name of the HDD
$pipname ="" #IP - Name of the IPcard
$urlOfUploadedImageVhd = "" # The base Image VHD uploaded, syspreped and marked as an OS
 
#changes finished , sort of
$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress -Name $pipname -ResourceGroupName $rgname -Location $location -AllocationMethod Dynamic
$vnetname = Get-AzureRmVirtualNetwork -Name $vnet -ResourceGroupName $rgname
$subnetid = (Get-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name 'default' -VirtualNetwork $vnetname).id #the name of the Vnet the VM will be created
#changes finished
$nic = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface -Name $nicname -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $location -PublicIpAddressId $pip.Id -SubnetId $subnetid # -subnetid $vnet.Subnets[0].Id
#Get the storage account where the uploaded image is stored
$storageAcc = Get-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $rgName -AccountName $storageAccName
#Set the VM name and size
#Use "Get-Help New-AzureRmVMConfig" to know the available options for -VMsize
$vmConfig = New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName $vmName -VMSize "Standard_DS2_v2"
#Set the Windows operating system configuration and add the NIC
orig $vm = Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -VM $vmConfig -Windows -ComputerName $computerName -Credential $cred -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate
$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -VM $vmConfig -Windows -ComputerName $computerName  -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate
$vm = Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface -VM $vm -Id $nic.Id
#Create the OS disk URI
$osDiskUri = '{0}vhds/{1}{2}.vhd' -f $storageAcc.PrimaryEndpoints.Blob.ToString(), $vmName.ToLower(), $osDiskName
#Configure the OS disk to be created from image (-CreateOption fromImage) and give the URL of the uploaded image VHD for the -SourceImageUri parameter
#You can find this URL in the result of the Add-AzureRmVhd cmdlet above
$vm = Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk -VM $vm -Name $osDiskName -VhdUri $osDiskUri -CreateOption fromImage -SourceImageUri $urlOfUploadedImageVhd -Windows
#Create the new VM
New-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $location -VM $vm
End of Script
```

And that's it

You will have a  Windows 10 VM created in Azure ARM

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