Windows 10: VM Azure cloud logins, system32 files dated same across devices +++

Hello,I'm having a strange episode with 3 windows devices of mine, hope you can help...1x desktop windows 102x laptops windows 11Recently I have noticed each device is now a virtual machine with a hypervisor.I'm pretty sure when I bought them, that they were not virtual, could they have been?I'm getting information that my different accounts local and 1 Microsoft, are being accessed via the cloud which I have not authorised ofc and knew nothing about until recently.Settings / accounts now show options to view what is accessible via my "work or school account" I have never had either a work or

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Migrating On Prem VM to Azure

Hi Experts, We have a requirement of moving out VMs as is in Azure from Current On-Prem and the process we are following is

1. Create a RAW image from an on-prem VM.
   
2. Convert the RAW image to VHD.
   
3. Move the VHD file to Azure Storage.
   
4. Convert the Disks to managed disks.
   
5. Mount the OS disk to the C drive and other disks respectively.
   

Issue - Once we mount the OS disk we are not able to RDP to the machine we have followed the steps suggested in the below links and as usual there are millions of documents and none point in the right direction unfrotunately.

Links followed to figure out options to get this done -

Prepare a Windows VHD to upload to Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs - Microsoft documentation.

Attach an existing OS disk to a VM - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn - Microsoft documentation.

Upload a VHD to Azure and create a virtual machine - Stephanie Kahlam - Some helpful people created this and

We have tried options

1. Created image from managed disk and tried to initiate the VM and got exception as below
   Provisioning failed.
   OS Provisioning for VM 'demo-1' did not finish in the allotted time. However, the VM guest agent was detected running. This suggests the guest OS has not been properly prepared to be used as a VM image (with CreateOption=FromImage). To resolve this issue, either use the VHD as is with CreateOption=Attach or prepare it properly for use as an image:
   * Instructions for Windows: https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-upload-image/
   * Instructions for Linux: https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-capture-image/.
   
   
   and the suggested solution 1 to use CreateOption=Attach creates the VM but does not allow us to RDP to the machine so we are assuming it's not booting up. The other option suggested in the hyperlink is to create image using SysPrep which is not an option for us as we are performing a lift and shift.
   

I would like to get some guidance from experts on to the right process to follow.

 

Unable to login to VM via RDP using Azure AD credentials...

Hey there, Microsoft community, I have a client using a Lenovo ThinClient with Windows 10 ioT installed. They are using it to login to a Windows 10 VM on a Scale NUC (not an Azure VM) via Remote Desktop Connection and they are to use their Azure AD credentials to remote in.

The problem I am having is that I can't seem to login with those credentials, the error I am getting is:

The credentials that were used to connect to VMName did not work. Please enter new credentials.

I have tried the following formats: "AzureAD\*** Email address is removed for privacy ***", "AzureAD\Username", "*** Email address is removed for privacy ***". None of them worked.

I have verified the following:

- the Azure AD user is on the list of Remote Desktop Users
- the password I have entered is correct

- I have rebooted the VM many times and reset the network connections using Scale NUC.

Now the VM was having a problem where it couldn't activate because it didn't find a valid Microsoft 365 Business subscription with the Azure AD user account. I fixed that by re-signing in, but I still cannot remote in using the AzureAD credentials.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Microsoft Community, in advance!

 

Can I install Garuda Linux in an Azure VM ?

Hi everyone,

I want to use Garuda Linux on my Azure VM by either using an ORACLE VIRTUALBOX or ANY OTHER suitable way.

But for that I need Hyper-V which is not available in any Azure VMs. I know nested virtualization exists, but I tried various VM sizes, Ds2_v3, e-series and almost everyone, none of them have it.

And I have read this documentation - Run Hyper-V in a Virtual Machine with Nested Virtualization | Microsoft Learn

in one of the steps, it says While the virtual machine is in the OFF state, run the following command on the physical Hyper-V host. Here, what is this physical hyper-v host? My laptop? or the Azure Data Centre ?

I couldn't figure out.

So can you please let me know the complete configuration of Azure VM -

• Which VM size to use
  
• Any additional settings during VM creation
  
• Region to choose
  
• Settings to do in the VM itself
  

so that I can use Oracle Virtualbox to install Garuda Linux.

If nested virtualization is not possible, suggest any alternative way to install Garuda linux on the VM.