To do this part you need an Azure account. If you don’t have one you can sign up for a free Azure account with a credit of 180 Euros (200 US Dollars) to be spent during 30 days, plus many other free services during 12 months.
Search for DevTest Labs in the top bar and create a new DevTest Lab. Once it’s created open the details and you should see something like this:
Click on the “Configuration and policies” menu item at the bottom of the list and scroll down in the menu until you see the “Virtual machine bases” section:
And now comes the second funniest part of the process: we need to upload the 130GB VHD image to a blob storage account! So, click the “Add” button on top and in the new dialog that will open click the “Upload a VHD using PowerShell”. This will generate a PowerShell script to upload the VHD to the DevTest Labs blob. For example:
| <#Generated script to upload a local VHD to Azure.WARNING: The destination will be publicly available for 24 hours, after which it will expire. Ensure you complete your upload by then.Run the following command in a Azure PowerShell console after enteringthe LocalFilePath to your VHD.#>Add-AzureRmVhd -Destination “https://YOURBLOB.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/tempImage.vhd?sv=2019-07-07&st=2020-12-27T09%3A08%3A26Z&se=2020-12-28T09%3A23%3A26Z&sr=b&sp=rcw&sig=YTeXpxpVEJdSM7KZle71w8NVw9oznNizSnYj8Q3hngI%3D” -LocalFilePath “<Enter VHD location here>” |
An alternative to this is using the Azure Storage Explorer as you can see in the image on the left.
You should upload the VHD to the uploads blob.
Any of these methods is good to upload the VHD and I don’t really know which one is faster.
Once the VHD is uploaded open the “Custom images” option again and you should see the VHD in the drop-down:
Give the image a name and click OK.
What we have now is the base for a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations dev VM which we need to prepare to use it as a build VM.
