Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed

23rd of March, 2018 / / No Comments

I recently tried to deploy a VM using an ARM template executed via PowerShell and I encountered the purchase eligibility failed error as seen below.
PurchaseEligibilityFailedError
As I have encountered this before I ensured I accepted marketplace terms for the VM image in question using the PowerShell commands:

Get-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Publisher PublisherName -Product ProductName -Name Name | Set-AzureRmMarketplaceTerms -Accept

I then reattempted to deploy my VM using my ARM template and still got the same error, I even waited 24 hours and tried again with no luck.… [Keep reading] “Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed”

Simultaneously Start|Stop all Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines in a Resource Group

10th of February, 2016 / / 13 Comments

Problem

How many times have you wanted to Start or Stop all Virtual Machines in an Azure Resource Group ? For me it seems to be quite often, especially for development environment resource groups. It’s not that difficult though. You can just enumerate the VM’s then cycle through them and call ‘Start-AzureRMVM’ or ‘Start-AzureRMVM’. However, the more VM’s you have, that approach running serially as PowerShell does means it can take quite some time to complete.… [Keep reading] “Simultaneously Start|Stop all Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines in a Resource Group”

Azure VM Security using Azure VM Security Extensions, ConfigMgr and SCM Part 1

30th of October, 2014 / / 1 Comment

This post to wrap up my session at TechEd Sydney 2014 : DCI315 Azure VM Security and Compliance Management with Configuration Manager and SCM.

In this blog post series we will dispell some of the myths and dive into Azure VM Security.

With Azure AU Geo launched on TechEd Sydney 2014, Azure now has 19 Regions. More and more enterprises start migrating their workloads into Azure. Most of our clients have the same question – How do we manage security and compliance on Azure VM?… [Keep reading] “Azure VM Security using Azure VM Security Extensions, ConfigMgr and SCM Part 1”