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Creating shared images

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Creating shared images

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- [Instructor] When creating virtual machines in Azure, we have a number of images from the marketplace. For example, I've got an image here that was built from the Windows 2019 image, but those images are what's called vanilla, i.e. they are the basic operating system and nothing else is installed on them. Sometimes you want an image that might contain other services, such as your own application or even just IIS or some of the built-in services. Now these can usually be scripted out through PowerShell scripts, but sometimes you want to create the image yourself and just reuse that image as and when you need. This is actually quite simple to do. So I have here this Microsoft Windows image that we installed Internet Information Services on and if I go to that image, what I can do is go ahead and capture it. So what this will do is take my Windows server that I've got running that's got IIS installed and create an image…

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