Step-by-Step: Creating VMs in Microsoft Azure Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal.

Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

Deploying VMs using the Microsoft Azure Portal takes just a few mouse clicks.

Creating a Windows Virtual Desktop using the Azure Portal requires a number of steps, some of which are less than intuitive. This tutorial shows you how to navigate the various configuration screens.

1) fiddle with Windows 2012 Virtual Networking across a couple Hyper-V host servers, that’ll allow you to create a mini-VLAN to segment communications between hosts in-house. The step by step ...

Uploading a Hyper-V virtual machine to Microsoft Azure is surprisingly easy to do, but there is a lot of prep work that must be done in order to get the virtual machine ready to upload. Much of ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.