Moving TFS 2015 VM to Azure as an Image and Creating Machine from It

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As I had to use TFS 2015 and the quickest option was to get the ready VM by Visual Studio ALM team and push it to Azure. This is what I did

1. Created a VM in Azure

2. Downloaded the TFS VM as described in Blog https://vsalmvm.azurewebsites.net/alm-vm-2015-available-now/

3. You must use Free Download Manager described in the blog.

4. Created a storage account and a container. Made the container as Public. We can change it using Azure Storage Explorer https://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/

5. Then connected Azure PowerShell

6. Ran the below powershell command

Add-AzureVhd -Destination "here is the blog URL including the name as .vhd" -LocalFilePath "local path where the VHD is extracted" -NumberOfUploaderThreads 32

7. Then used the OLD Azure management portal and added the image from Image section under Virtual Machine section

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8. Then created the VM from Old portal and selected the image from my image

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You are done. Now your TFS VM runs on Azure’s giant data center. Thanks.

Namoskar!!!