- Powershell 4.0 (installing powershell is out of scope, see: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx)
- Boxstarter
Click on the following url: http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/Boxstarter.Azure
This will download a click-once application to install BoxStarter and the Azure components that are used in the script.
Download the the file Azure-CreateAndPrepareVM.ps1 from the repository. Use powershell in administrative mode and execute the script by the following commands:
.\Azure-CreateAndPrepareVM.ps1 -imageFamilyName "Visual Studio Premium 2013 Update 4 on Windows 8.1 Enterprise N (x64)" -azurePublishSettingsFile "c:\temp\publishfile.publishsettings" -subscriptionName "Subscription name" -storageAccountName "Storage account name" -vmName “VM name" -vmSize "Large" -vmLocation "West Europe" -vmUserName "User name" -cloudServiceName "Cloud service name"
Please note that the parameters have to filled with correct data and that tha cloudServiceName parameter is optional